Massachusetts

Author Miller’s famous play, The Crucible, focuses on the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During the Salem Witch Trials, 20 “witches” whom were accused and hung for not confessing to the false accusations. Although hundreds of other accusations occurred during the Salem Witch Trials, many avowed to being a witch to save their lives. Throughout the dramatic, trust-breaking and heart-wrenching scenes of The Crucible, Reverend Hale develops from a doctor who…

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is about religious and political repression; which authentic historical event and people played a base acknowledged as The Red Scare or McCarthyism in 1950s. The play took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trails, which was when people were innocently accused of witchcraft. A crucible can be defined as a severe ordeal or a set of circumstances where people are subjected to forces that test them and often make them change. John…

of witchcraft, 20 executions and many other deaths due to starvation and bad treatment in jails. This event marked Massachusetts’s history, by its atrocious and dreadful history. 1. The Beginning The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, when a group of young girls started showing a bizarre and abnormal behavior. “The tight-knit community was at a loss to explain the convulsive seizures, blasphemous screaming, and trance-like states that afflicted the youngsters. The…

Salem witch trials, to some, is a mystery, enigma, or confusing, but there is a possible answer to this situation: Jealousy. 20 people in Salem, Massachusetts were hanged in 1692, because of being accused of witchcraft. Some people say that religion cause it. Others say that it was because of them trying to explain the unexplainable. Here’s why I think jealousy would beat out religion and explaining the unexplainable is explaining the cause of this whole ‘which ‘witch’ is a witch’ hysteria.…

The history behind South Burying Ground in Concord, MA is an interesting one. In 1636, the citizens of Concord constructed a meeting house and next to that meetinghouse was a cemetery known as Old Hill Burying Ground. This cemetery was the only one in the entire town until 1697. In 1697, a circulating superstition stated that it was bad luck to transport a corpse across the water. During this time period, the people who lived on the south side of town had no choice but to transport their dead…

Fall River, Massachusetts is not nearly the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. Its people have not endured any fraction of the strife, poverty, violence, or tumult that residents of the South Bronx have. Its schools are functional, its neighborhoods are diverse, its hospital systems – though similarly understaffed and sometimes unhelpful – operate smoothly. In 2012, Fall River was ranked among the top “100 Best Communities for Young People” in America (“2012 Competition Winners”).…

The American Revolution and the Civil War both took place between the late 1700's and mid 1800's. They were both alike and different in numerous ways. They were different because the American Revolution was fought against Britain, and the Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern United States. They were also alike from the fact that both wars started because of denied rights. The Civil War began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. It all began when the Confederates…

The Salem Witch Trials were a brutal time period and should be considered a crime against humanity. In the novel “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller there is a conflict that takes place in Salem Massachusetts 1692. The puritan society was a very strict and religious society making the accusation of witchery very powerful. All of this leads to one question, who was responsible for the Salem Witch Trials? That would be the infamous John Proctor. In the novel John shows several traits the portray the…

Nathaniel Hawthrone was raised in Massachusetts during the Puritan era. I think that due to his connection to the Puritan heritage through his ancestors who were Puritans and involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692, he wrote frequently about the 17th century Puritan era in American history to express his negative feelings about the cruelty and injustice of Puritanism that he had observed through his ancestors. Hawthrone was aware of his family's role in colonial America, and through his…

The novel begins by introducing the main character, Eunice Williams. She a is a young girl living in a puritan, English town, in Massachusetts. Based in the early 1700’s, there is a war between the English and the French, in which the Native Americans from the north are aiding the French. Eunice has three brothers, two older and one younger, and two older sisters. Her father is the reverend of the town, and her mother stays at home. The town fears that the Native Americans will come and raid the…