The Accusers

Massachusetts, these young girls discovered the power of their words, discovered the power of accusation. Exploration of this power lies at the center of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He delves into the world of how it affects different people: the accusers, the innocent or those being accused, and authority. Miller wrote The Crucible in 19** when the United States was in gripped by fear of communism. Miller observed how some authorities (notably Senator Joseph McCarthy) exploited this fear…

3. Socrates is at court because he is under indictment by a man named Meletus for corrupting the young and for not believing in the the gods that the city believes in. 5. Euthyphro's family is angry that he is prosecuting his father for murder on behalf of a murder that his father hasn't done. They also think that is impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder. Socrates thinks that Euthyphro should make sure that he truly knows what piety and impiety so he doesn't wrongly…

Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He was the inspiration for Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition and contradicting some situations people might know the truth but refuse to prove it like with Socrates in Plato’s Apology. Socrates clearly took philosophy seriously and his own awareness of…

let him soon become a victim of the accusers. Ranging from him “bewitching soldiers”, and flying girls to top of mountains to sign them to the devil. The reasoning gets more a more ridiculous with every accusation that comes after another. Scholars have noticed one thing in particular as well relating to the class status of the accused and accusers. A majority of the accused lived to the south of, and were more better off financially than most of the accusers. The jealously, and hunger for…

In “The Crucible” the accusers were girls, mere teens as our society today would deem them, and in “The Scarlet Letter” the accusers were the people, and the church as well. Both tales had an element of the church presenting its cases and 'rooting out the Devil where he stands ', but in “The Crucible” the church is pushed aside…

things he says to the jury is, “It is right for me, gentlemen, to defend myself first against the first lying accusations made against me and my first accusers, and then against the later accusations and the later accusers,” (18 B). Plato shows that Socrates believes that there is a type of justice for good as value because he says, “first accusers,” which represents the past experiences of the jury about Socrates. Furthermore, we can infer that Socrates believes that…

I believe Socrates have given the good arguments overall and have reasons to justify all his points, but I’m not completely agree with all his opinion, especially in the case which Euthyphro is accusing his father of murder someone. Socrates is a very wise and willing to explain and defending himself even with paying the price of him own life. What is piety? One of the argument from Euthyphro is that what is piety and impiety to the gods. One of the definition that article provides is that…

Massachusetts in 1692 depicts the story of the Salem Witch Hunts, a wave of hysteria that spread through the town. It exposes the power of an individual to influence and change society, such as the character Abigail Williams who is the most well-known accuser in the story and John Proctor who acts against the court in order to try to bring rational thinking to the society. The characters of the play are motivated by fear, jealousy, and desire for power or revenge which is only accelerated by the…

with a trade or part of the elite (e.g., court officials that would be judging her fate). There were also women that participated in the trial as witnesses. These women were largely the wives of Anna Roleffes’ accusers (e.g., Anna Steinmann who was the wife to Hans Harves), served as accusers or character witnesses (e.g., Agnesa Graten, Anna Graven, and Anna Timmerman) and one individual woman, Hille Voge the High Countess of Lehre, was associated with elite society gave testimony (Morton &…

about our number one example and how throughout His life in this earth he showed kindness to everyone he encounter. “The woman that was caught in adultery, she was toss at Jesus feet and when he starts writing on the sand and her accusers left, “where are your accusers” Jesus ask, neither do I condemned you, go and sin no more.” Jesus was…