Samuel Pierpont Langley

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, he explains to his readers about the seventeenth century and how people were convicted for witchcraft, which led to the hanging of many women and few men. This play takes place in a small village in eastern Massachusetts. Many young girls were discovered dancing and playing of “magic” in the forest with a West Indian Slave, Tituba. During the seventeenth century, many people were convicted for so many different things and they were penalized to death or…

Were Socioeconomic Tensions Responsible for the Witchcraft Hysteria in Salem? When conducting my research on the Salem Witch Trial era in the year of 1692, there seems to be the same question that people want answers to, which is what caused the Salem Witch trials?. When you sit-down and think about what happened, this kind of question can come to anybody mind naturally. But even though it seems to be an easy question, unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't have an easy answer. That Is why…

The book and/or play, The Crucible, is set in the 17th century back in Salem, Massachusetts where the witch hunts took place. One character, Mary Warren, is seen differently throughout the play. She’s the servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor, and is also a part of Abigail’s group of girls, to whom accuse innocent people of being witches. Mary Warren is a morally ambiguous character who is manipulated easily especially by Abigail Williams. She’s stuck between doing what’s right and what’s wrong.…

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,…

accused of witchcraft (Worthen 1 of 3). The Trials came to an end in 1693 when the governor of the colony heard that his own wife was being accused of witchcraft (Kiger 3 of 3). In February of 1692, Betty Parris, the eleven year old daughter of minister Samuel Parris, and her cousin Abigail Williams began…

Charaterisation, like in many stories that concern the people, is too loose and vague. There is really no central hero as the characters rise and fall due to the nature of the story. The characterization of the story is lost in the many preambles and side attractions of the intrigue of the narrative. Tropes on their part are signaled by the trademark strange sound effect for advertising purposes. Notable also as a trope is the montage gymick of how the diegetic manner of telling the story of…

What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? Nineteen men and women hung from the tree of destruction, for they were the ornaments of hysteria. In the village of Salem during 1692, 20 people got accused for witchcraft left and right and eventually they got hanged. Experts have been determined to find out for years, but they’re still uncertain what the cause of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria was. Envy, sexism, and lying little girls stand out as the main causes. To begin, one cause…

The Theme of ‘Uncertainty’ in Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot is the English translation of the famous post war French play En Attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett written between 1948 and 1949. The plot of the play revolves around two tramps- Vladimir and Estragon who waits for the arrival of an acquaintance named “Godot”. However, Godot never comes and throughout the play, these two tramps engage themselves in various discussions, activities, and encounters. Being a play that belongs to the…

Other factors that could have caused the defeat of the Spanish Armada besides the Protestant wind involves looking at events that took place before and during the invasion. The ultimate responsibility for launching, devising and failing the overthrow of the Protestant English regime was placed on King Philip II. After the disappointing failure in his launch of the Spanish Armada, people back at home blamed him for disregarding professional advice given to him by his captains. Professional…

The Treaty of Paris was signed inn February 1763. Britain had taken control of many important French colonies around the world. Britain 's military success created massive challenges. Their national debt had doubled during the war. The cost of maintaining British soldiers in the colonies was staggering. A historian has call this an "arrogant triumphalism" which them to ultimately lose their control over the Indians and the colonists in North America. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was signed…