The Accusation

passageways for Satan to enter the body." Next was witness testimony. Neighbors retold stories of times that their crops died or livestock became sick, blaming it on the witches. Fourth was the most prominent kind: spectral evidence. The Puritans believed that Satan could not take the form of an unwilling person, and if anyone saw a spector, or spirit in the form of a person, that person was undoubtedly a witch. Last, the judges considered a confession from the accused. As the trials went on, it…

The missionaries had elaborate discussions with the Ibo people regarding religion, “Then the missionaries burst into song” (Achebe 146).The persuasion of the missionaries is shown, as they attempt to convert the Ibo people to Christianity with happy, upbeat, rollicking tunes of evangelism, a sect of Christianity. The missionaries confidently state “We have been sent by this great God to ask you to leave your ways and false gods and turn to Him so that you may be saved when you die” (Achebe 145).…

extremely valued in the community of Salem. Almost all characters in the play have made decisions purely on the basis of how it will affect their reputation. The accusations of witchcraft by naming others in order to deflect suspicion from a characters own name adds another layer to the intensity that…

likely that the girls only were continuing to carry out what the adults around them had planted to idea of. And these were events that, once set in motion, continued to escalate in severity. The tough economic times, sickness, and confessions and accusations made out of the fear and hopefulness of the accused were what kept the Salem Witch Trials from declining, or even never happening. These were not the first witch hunts in the world, and with belief in witchcraft stemming from religion, and…

power and influences how they use their gained power. In The Crucible, this aspect is seen with many characters from Giles Corey to Mister Putnam. Some literary scholars believe “Miller takes pains to document property disputes behind some of the accusations in Salem”(Bovard 71). The people in Salem use their power to accuse others as witches, or to fight against the witch trials. All in all, Marxism is demonstrated in the way the witch trials were fueled through a strong…

The Salem Witch Trials was a horrible piece of american history. Many people died because of the accusations made by others. Then nearly three hundred years later, the problem began again. In the 1940s-50 people were accused of being communist or communist sympathizers. This would eventually cause mass hysteria; which is when a group acts irrational out of fear, and would cause people to lose their career. The Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism have some stunning similarities and differences.…

The accusers, who were all women, were also not the standard woman; they were either widowed, in one case a slave, single, or could not bare children or had many stillbornes. In The Crucible, Abigail Williams is the woman who first begins the accusations of witchcraft.…

desire to work for him, sir.”(Act II, Miller). Tituba lied and betrayed hundreds of people causing havoc and terror and witch hunts across the town. When Tituba claimed that the devil came to her for work, this allowed the girls to spread their accusations and lies on innocent townspeople, causing a spiraling effect. In the…

Miller portrays lust between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. Abigail is still lusting over John and is trying to end his marriage with Elizabeth Proctor because she knows that John never loved her. In Salem the spring year of 1692, there are accusations of witchcraft of loved ones which would lead to confessions and deaths. Before this Abigail was working at the Proctors' home but was kicked out by Elizabeth because of the fact of the affair. She felt like John was turning from her. (act 3)…

In response to the red scare, **the federal government enacted the Espionage Act of 1917 and added amendments to it in the Sedition Act of 1918. These prohibited interference with the war effort, with that legislation ended by the end of WW1, Palmer called for every state to enact its own version of the Sedition Act. In comparison, in response to the terrorist attack of September 2011, ***the United States passed the Homeland Security act which created the Department of Homeland Security. After…