Massachusetts

1692. That was the historical year in which the Salem witch trials occurred in Massachusetts. It is also the setting of The Crucible and “Young Goodman Brown”. Both stories have questionable morals, as wells as some similarities. Although the two stories have different plots and messages, the characters of Abigail Williams and the allegorical figure of the devil are complementary in that they both tempt the main character and maintain a facade of innocence through their deceiving age standard.…

It’s 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts and the town is in shambles and the stench of death is in the air. “Witch hunts” are the cause and everyone is fearing for their lives. These “witch hunts” were very violent and were a way of accusing those who look and and live differently than the others, whose judgement and thinking may differ from what we want, and those who have committed actions considered very sinful and horrifying. The Crucible has expressed these circumstances in ways that can easily…

The Salem Witch Trials, in 1692, was a phase in American history when the Puritans settled in Massachusetts and extraordinary events began. The events that occurred stirred up hysteria within the people. The hysteria was also induced by propaganda of the North Church and the fear of the unfamiliar land and people, accusations, and God. The idea of witches existing and infesting themselves in Puritan daily life caught and spread through the Puritan communities quickly. As a popular influence, the…

tail pointing south and the head pointing north. The colonies, from the bottom up to the top represent: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England (New England denoted the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire). Even though there were four “New England” colonies, Franklin merged them into one category to stress the need for colonial harmony. At the time, the colonists aggressively deliberated…

Adams was a smart man and grew up to become a very, very important and popular man in U.S. history. It all started when Susanna Boylston and John Adams Sr. , his parents, decided to have a kid and named him John Adams. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. The day was October 30, 1735. John Adams was a very respectful and polite kid. He was Homeschool and taught how to read by his parents Sometimes you go to the neighbor's house to learn and he soon started to attend classes at a local…

Madison in a private letter, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Though he wrote while Daniel Shays led an armed insurrection of 4,000 veterans in Massachusetts, I believe Jefferson, when he wrote of “a little rebellion”, referred not to large-scale violent events such as Shays’ Rebellion and the American Revolution, but instead to periodic instances of civil disobedience, such as the Stamp Act…

There were many people who died, but Giles Corey was the only one to be pressed by rocks. This brought the conflict of the Salem Witch Trials. More than 200 people were accused of witchcraft with 20 people killed as they were proven guilty. Many were hung, as others were left to die in prison. The conflict began when many girls of Salem acted possesed. In February of 1692, the doctor concluded that the girls in Salem were “bewitched”. Salem community members used the conflict of the Salem Witch…

The Crucible is based on a true story that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s. This event is known as the Salem witchcraft trials, including multiple individuals who were accused for witchcraft. During this time period the Puritan’s government was labeled as a Theocracy, a government that rules through a combination of religious and state power. The Crucible suggests Miller believes the abuse of governmental power was through the government’s sole interest in sustaining the…

The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria The Salem witchcraft hysteria is an event that occurred during the February 0f 1692 through May of 1693 in colonial Massachusetts. There were a series of trails that resulted in twenty executions, one hanging, and five deaths in prison, all of people accused of witchcraft. The question you may ask is what caused the Salem witch trails. That question has been asked since the event occurred. Will anyone ever have a definitive answer? Probably not, it is not a complex…

Doing something you believed right then to be proved wrong is the worst fear someone can have, right? In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, there was a ticking time bomb that would later explode into something bigger. The Crucible shows the corruption of one girl can cause. Reverend John Hale of Beverly comes to Salem to help the witch trials, but comes face to face to people being hanged for denying of being witch and living if they confess. People were being wrongly accused on the count of children…