Mary Warren

captivity narratives was based on Mary White Rowlandson and her eleven-week captivity. Mary White, later known as Mary White Rowlandson, was born in 1637 in Somerset, England. Her father, John…

The Salem witch trials all started with Tituba who was a slave of Samuel Parris. Several other girls joined Tituba in the kitchen in early 1692. People thought that Tituba and her group had a black magic dance in the woods. The girls would fall to the floor and start screaming and this behavior started to spread all over Salem. Soon after the Puritans believed that the girls would never put themselves under such a spell. They started asking the girls who did this to them and who tortured them,…

Who is the Mockingbird? What thoughts or emotions did Atticus have when he was appointed to defend Thomas Robison of his rape charges against Mayella Ewell? The title of the book is To Kill a Mockingbird and the author of the book is Harper Lee. In the novel Atticus was appointed by the court of Maycomb to defend Thomas Robinson from the crime that he was accused of committing. My Character is Atticus Finch, and he is a lawyer from Maycomb County. He has two children, Jem Finch, and Scout Finch…

Psychology behind the Afflicted Girls Even though The Crucible is fictional, psychology can explain why the girls were acting and accusing the townspeople of the unspeakable act of witchcraft. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a piece of literature that explains, in a fictional way uses a nonfictional event, what went on during the Salem witch trials. Miller’s purpose for writing this novel was to resemble his own problems of communism in his town. Miller himself was accused communism and…

Guilt, Denial and Consequences in God and the Indian Although this play is fiction, it is very likely that many ministers that worked for Residential Schools were haunted by Indian ghost children from their past, much like Lucy for George. God and the Indian by Drew Hayden Taylor is about an Anglican Bishop named George King, who is visited in his office in early 2000’s by Johnny Indian who is determined to make George acknowledge what he did to her 40 years earlier. . George has lived with…

In The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History, Peter C. Hoffer closely examines the many complexities of the bizarre Salem Witchcraft Trials and offers explanations as to what led up to and caused the terrible event. In the book, Hoffer uses analogies and insight to village life to support his explanations. This paper will review Hoffer’s re accounting of the trials, his theories on the trails, and the way in which he presents his arguments. Summary This section contains a summary of The…

Delving even deeper within the psychosocial elements that influenced the early colonists in 1692, Carol Karlsen, in her book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, demonstrates that women's status being particularly confined to that of Puritan definition was strenuous enough to cause such "possessions" to occur (231). What is described as a "cultural performance," Karlsen claims that these performances were representative of a ritual that the young New England girls were performing and that the…

Crucible Discussion Answers 1a. Proctor doomed himself because Deputy Governor Danforth would not let him survive if he didn’t give up the confession he signed. Proctor realized that if he gave this up, his name would mean nothing, due to him lying about him seeing demons, and signing his name on the confession, he had given up his name. He said that although they had already taken his soul, he wants to keep his name. 1b. I believe their was no other way out of his situation than to lie and…

“My father is a liar and so am I” are the words that author, Justine Larbalestier, uses to lure readers into her captivating book, Liar (3). The author weaves a suspenseful tale about teenager, Micah Wilkins, who seeks to find her boyfriend’s murder. She also artfully places fragments of doubt and lies that keep the reader in suspense through the length of the book. According to Essentials of Young Adult Literature, Larbalerstier’s book is categorized as a Supernatural Fantasy (Short,…

In 1606 Early European migrated to North America in desire for money and land. (Jamestown and the Founding of English America). But as time passed, a Village called Salem in Massachusetts around 1692, Puritan minister Reverend Parris finds a group of girls dancing naked in the forest, while he slightly witness the girls dancing among themselves, they were doing rituals to make their crushes fall in love with them. Among them are his niece Abigail and daughter Betty, who faints upon being…