Salem, Massachusetts

Wednesday, February 16, 1777, Exactly 100 years later from the hanging of the witches…. It's cold, ice covering the ground, dead grass, gray skies, dead trees, all for except the weeping willow. Yes, the weeping willow that grew right where the 4 witches had been buried, 100 years ago, the weeping willow is still alive!! They’ve invented a sport, called “football”. Really weird sport. In The Field, which is now the football field. They just recently built a school. It is said that, near by…

The Blame Game “The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.” Warren Eyster. Scapegoating is used when a problem occurs and people start to look for a person to blame for their mishaps. People often choose a person that they think is powerless and cannot fight back. This theory is highlighted in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible which affected people on a much more individual status and in an event that terrorized America called 9/11 where a group of people were blamed. These…

be applied to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Abigail Williams is the true crucible of Salem, violently testing the Puritan beliefs that the town holds dear. She is dishonest and lustful, behaves selfishly, and gets off scot free in the end. Almost every aspect of Abby Williams’s personality goes against Puritan beliefs and leads to her very presence testing the fabric of Salem. The Crucible truly refers to this seventeen year old siren with a taste for drama and tragedy.…

this was when John Proctor asked her was she still sad, she didn’t want her husband to know how she really felt, so she just went along with it, she didn’t want a lot of tension to take place. As she was explaining to John that Mary had gone off to Salem, he asks her why…

Silence engulfs the room as everyone stares at the television, watching and waiting for the clock to strike 12:00. When the clock chimes either the world will remain perfectly sane or erupt in utter chaos. Banks could plummet into darkness and money could be sent across the globe, and in the morning people could be left with the bare minimum of nothing. The world could also remain organized and orderly, but to the people this seemed too easy. When groups of people begin believing and acting upon…

All crazy stories we hear about the Salem Witch Trials today all started on January 1692. This tragic and strange time, although only lasting around a year, this event was a cause of twenty known executions. This was a dark time where the accused would turn on friends and the trials would cause people to give in as declare guilty, just to stop the torturing. Of the twenty known kills from the Salem Witch Trials, almost all were women or young girls. Of the few men that were killed, most were…

to get out of or avoid the situation. As humans, we seem to always be subconsciously looking for things to scapegoat weather it is for our benefit, their own problems and/or society’s problems as seen in the crucible during the Salem Witch Trials. During the time of the Salem witch trials a scapegoat was used as “a person which takes on the sins of others, or is unfairly blamed for problems”. Although the vast majority of us humans are guilty of scapegoating at some point in our lives and choose…

thinking that witchcraft is taking place in the small town of salem. Little did she know that she would be the cause of dozens of deaths, all because she was afraid to get in trouble. Her fear drove her to continue on with her fabricated stories, even after her beloved John Procter confronted her. Why Throughout the story abigail is constantly lying, wearing a false persona of a girl chosen by god to drive the witches away from salem. Each person she accused of being a witch who didn’t…

In the play the Crucible by Arthur Miller there's a main problem between a girl name Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. This story is based around a man name John Proctor and how Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor for being a witch. This means that since Elizabeth is accused she can get executed and Abigail can have John Proctor. Abigail is a selfish girl that is disliked by the village she lives in before the witch trials were even a thing. One day, she was caught with her and her…

Is She a Witch? The courtroom was loud with excited voices of women and men gossiping about the people who were about to go on trial. The whole town had shown up for the trial. They were there to accuse the people they had once called their friends and family. They were afraid of what had happened in town. The town’s people did not want to be accused of being witches themselves. One of the judges looked out into the crowd and yelled for everyone to quiet down. The other judge announced that…