Screaming for Vengeance

Witch hunts were practiced throughout history from Europe to the New World, one of the most famous occurred during 1692. The settlement of Salem Village, Massachusetts, was in hysteria. Fear of the devil and witches overran the population. This was due to the pressures that were put on this Puritan community after the war between the British and French over the colonies in 1689. Also pressures from disease, and fears of attacks from the neighboring rival town of Salem Village, as well as attacks…

It was a sunny, normal day, in Resting Pine Oaks. A small town, just east of Ohio. The sun was shining over all 150 residents. All were calm but one. This one new something, something dangerously coming. Something that could ruin or endanger the lives of all the residents. Shasta-Shaniqua Brown knew it was bad. She warned so many people, but they just looked at her like she was crazy. And for a while, she was starting to believe it too. Until today, when everyone will regret not to take her…

it was all a joke and let Montresor of the hook. Montresor however does not take the bait and remains uncompromising. Besides being persistent with his revenge he is also persistent with how this revenge will be carried out. When Fortunato begins screaming on page 67 Montresor recounts that “For a brief moment I hesitated -- I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess” however he then goes on to tell the reader that “the thought of an instant reassured me.” (Poe…

The Crucible Essay “Whore! How do you dare call Heaven” (Act 2 Scene II). This quote caused quite a stir in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Proctor, one of the main characters, is yelling this at another character named Abigail, who, along with Danforth, is to blame for the witch trials. The characters in the play that are most to blame are Abigail and Danforth because Abigail makes false accusations throughout the whole play, she causes all the hysteria that feeds the witch trials,…

Many times it can be an act of vengeance rather than the pursuit of justice. Yet the bloodthirsty vengeance that Saraswathi displayed was definitely something I hadn’t considered. To heal, she needed to throw back violence in the face of those who oppressed, spoiled, and destroyed her. It was not only to kill herself but…

Man’s thirst for vengeance is what drives America ever closer to insanity. Closer to madness, unscrupulousness, and corruption. If our demons are not satisfied with the completion of a certain task, they will haunt us, nagging at our soul, screaming so loudly that their voices drown out our senses of logic and rationality. They will reap at one’s conscience; shredding the papers that we humans call our lives. This is the scope of capital punishment -- the punishment itself is not the cause for…

questioned in Salem. Reverend Hale on countless occasions tries to get Danforth to listen to him to stop the hangings after John Proctor 's wife, Elizabeth, had been accused by Abigail for witchcraft.. “I may shut my conscience to it no more- private vengeance is working through this testimony!” (Hale, Pg.949). Only for Hale to be cut off by Abigail’s false screams of terror to distract Danforth from paying attention to Hales accusations, just to make sure he doesn’t start to question her about…

Payback, revenge, karma; call it what you will, but it all has to do with the idea of retribution. Revenge, the conventional name, is typically an idea that accosts itself when an individual offends another, leading to ill feelings. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” and the poem, “A Poison Tree,” by Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake, both protagonists host feelings of revenge, but only see one side of it; however, the reader can see the explicit side effects of it. The major…

multiplied by each new person and greater anonymity exists for the girls in their naming if they are a part of a group. First Abigail Williams says, “I want to open myself! I want the light of God”, and all the other girls follow with more names and screaming (Miller 48). Even those with no reason to feel confused and scared panic, spreading the violence. The hysteria continues to worsen, in Salem, with the number of people in jail. There is no one tending the fields and homes, as described by…

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” -Ernest Hemingway. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff has hunted everything in every situation that he can imagine. He found that animals are not fun to exploit anymore. He had in many situations outsmarted and out done his pray so, he creates a new game where he hunts humans. They are smarter and have the ability to reason.…