The Accusers

on the West side of salem were pour and had no political power. The people on the East were rich and had all of the political power. On the west side, there were 33 accusers and one accused. On the East, there were 2 accusers and 17 accused. This makes me think jealousy because the poor people were…

Sophocles, one of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survived, notably stated that “There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” Despite living nearly 2,500 years ago, his quotes still live on. During his time, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatical competitions that took place in Athens. This quote can be powerful when deciphered, and therefore, appears in many self-reflective readings. Sophocles’ quote means that…

Socrates makes it apparent that even though he’s attempting to persuade the court to spare his life, he is very aware that this task will not be easily accomplished due to the years of slander instilled in others by his accusers. Socrates main point (and most powerful) is that his accusers contradict every claim they make against him. Rather it’s claiming his constant questioning of the world we live in is corrupting the youth or it be the claim that Socrates does not believe in the Athenian…

The Salem Witch Trials are a sequence of incidents in Massachusetts.These trails were about if people got turned into a witch and causing trouble, and if they were, they would die.According to the background essay, the bible thought the devil was the witch.When the devil went into another person they would cause a ruckus.But that may have been a myth and however, many people don’t know what caused it. According to the bible, the devil still could be a possible answer to the cause of the…

Guilty Until Proven Innocent Prison has been around in human society for many millions of years. Having someone who disobeyed the law of that village, town, city or country punished in some form of institution, cutting them off from people, is a common concept. When someone has been accused of a crime the police find evidence to back up the story and he/she is proven guilty, but when someone is falsely accused of rape and there is hardly any evidence to back up the claim they are still looked…

This can be shown by looking at document 9, a map that shows where all of the accusers, defenders and accused witches where located within Salem Village. The map reveals a very distinct line between where the accusers were and where the defenders/accused were. This becomes important because humans naturally fear what is unknown or unfamiliar to them. The fact that they were almost always accusing…

Afterwards the accusers were brought in front of the court of Oyer and Terminer before three judges and a jury. The courts did not have woman as judges or on the Jury. And the accusers were not given a lawyer to represent themselves; they were charged guilty using spectral evidence. During the trials as the accusers enter the court room the prosecutors claimed of being tortured. Most prosecutors were women. It’s claimed that the accusers have threatened and bewitched the prosecutors…

his jury that his accusers were in fact numerous and had slandered his name in many ways and for a long time, he said: “they spoke to you at an age when you would most readily believe them, some of you being children or adolescents, and they won their case by default, as there was no defense (18c).” Socrates is saying, in my opinion, that the men slandering him were only able to convince the young of Socrates so proclaimed wrong doings because they were in fact young. These accusers and…

Abigail Williams played a big role in The Crucible. She was the first accusers in the Salem Witch Trials. She and her cousins mainly caused the trials. The trials consisted a young group of girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts being claimed to be possessed by the devil and they ended up accusing several local women of witchcraft. She and the group of girls caused up to forty different cases during the trials. Abigail was a huge factor when it came to killing witches in the trials. This…

But they did not try to find any other approach to this. It was unfair because of the use of spectral evidence, the defendant's prosecution, and the the use of false evidence. The use of Spectral evidence was unfair because only the accusers could see it. The defendant's prosecution was unfair because they were denied basically all civil liberties. The of false evidence was also unfair because the people who used it were not punished when they got caught. The trials were significant…