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    Reverend Samuel Parris, a former lucrative merchant is known for his endeavors to win the people over with his skills. He saw that life in merchandise did not fulfill his idea of a happy life. Parris became a pastor and moved to the simple town of Salem to begin his work. Parris did not think the job would be very hard, but after three years, he has not gained the trust of his congregation. He feels that the community is rather against his teachings than for it. Parris says,” Three years ago, I had a plan, to preach the gospel and win the respect of my congregation. I have not been able to gain their support and now that my family is involved with such vile things, my reputation will be ruined and I will removed from my position.” Parris also…

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    that forever changed relations between rumor and religion and the judicial system. Key figures in the Salem witch trials that greatly influenced the trials were Ann Putnam for her apology, Tituba for her confession, and Samuel Parris for his leadership during the trials. Ann Putnam Ann Putnam affected many people. For example, she was one of the first accusers along with Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, and others. Secondly, Ann was the only accuser…

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    Reverend Samuel Parris changes dramatically throughout the action in The Crucible. In Act One, he rejects any involvement of witchcraft to protect his reputation in Salem. He wishes that the townspeople should “leap not to witchcraft… [because the townspeople] will howl [him] out of Salem for such corruption in [his] house” (13). However, after Reverend Hale remarks that the reason that the Devil chose Parris’s house to strike is because “it is the best that the Devil wants, and who is better…

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    Johnny Veira #4054617 Samuel Parris and the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak Salem’s witchcraft outbreaks shaped the reason for the “Witch Hunt” of 1692. These scandalous accusations marked New England as a time in which evil was found within the locals; endangering, provoking fear and blaming women for the practice of witchcraft. Accusations of witchcraft had been part of Colonial America before Salem in 1692, but the intensity in which cases of witchcraft developed throughout Salem, increased…

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    Reverend Samuel Parris, the famous minister during the Salem witch trials, was not exactly, as he was described in The Crucible. Although most of the information given about Parris in the play is correct, some of his family was omitted and certain events did not happen as stated in the play. Not everything in the play was the same; for example in the play, Parris only had one child named Betty. According to History of Massachusetts, he actually had three children, Betty, Thomas, and Susannah…

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    Arthur Miller, Reverend Samuel Parris runs the church. Parris, supposedly, a puritan doesn’t fit the characteristics of one at all. A traditional Puritan is someone who craves a simple form of religion, shows self reliant, selflessness, and is respected by one’s neighbors. A traditional puritan knows God created a plan for everyone and shows patience in receiving a valuable fortune. Parris expresses un-puritan ways in the aspects of his religion, greed, reputation, attitude and paranoia. Parris…

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    British North America to view anyone living outside the religious and social boundaries as potential minions of Satan. This notion perhaps best explains why in 1692 the remote location of Salem Village in Massachusetts became the focal point for a series of witchcraft accusations that would reverberate across all of colonial New England. In a manner complicit with the writings of Cotton Mather, Salem Village’s Puritan minister the Reverend Samuel Parris often used fiery sermons to illuminate…

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    When you think about this time period there was no television, no radio, no entertainment, and lots of Bible reading. reverend Samuel Parris was the father of the girls who made the first accusations of the witches in Salem in 1692. reverend Samuel Parris family was small. He was married and had a nine-year-old daughter, Betty, and a twelve-year-old niece. “Abigail Williams, who was an orphan.” (Detweiler). Abigail was expected to earn her keep by doing household chores. After chores were done,…

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    SALEM WITCH TRIALS Over three hundred years ago, the people in and around Salem, Massachusetts, took part in the most massive witch hunt in American history. The Salem Witch Trials were a terrible time for the little town of Salem. The Trials began in the Spring of 1692 when a group of girls claimed they were possessed by the devil. This sent panic all throughout the Village of Salem and led to more than two hundred local citizens being accused of witchcraft (Worthen 1 of 3). The Trials came…

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    He had a wife at the time of the trials named Elizabeth Parris. He also not only had a daughter named Betty, but two other children. He had an older son named Thomas and a younger daughter named Susannah. His wife did pass away not to long after the Trials were put to an end though (Fact & Fiction). While he was the third reverend replacement Salem had received, he was actually the third one in the past sixteen years, not the past seven (“Salem Transcription Project”). While Parris claims to see…

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