The Witch

The Salem Witch Trials One of America’s mistakes involving false persecution was the Salem Witch Trials. This was a great example of sexism and religious persecution because the biggest victim of the trials were women, also a great number of the accused were just part of a different culture or a different culture, and there were many unfair trials between men and women because men were respected more. The name Salem, also meaning peace, was originally given by the English puritans with a vision…

How are Salem witch trials and the Red Scare similar? The Salem witch trials began in 1692 and the Red Scare in the fifties. However, both of these events are alike because they both involved a witch hunt against people with unpopular views. Although the Salem witch trials and Red Scare are decades apart, the similarities through the causes and the trial proceedings. One way the trial in Salem is like the communist scare involves fear and corrupt authority figures as the causes. In Salem the…

guilty verdict, “you are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink (Brandt).” This woman, Rebecca Nurse, was taken to Gallows Hill along with four other women charged with the same crime to be hanged on July nineteenth. This was one out of hundreds of men and women and even animals who were accused of witchcraft and then thrown into jail to await their trial and execution. The Salem Witch Trials was one of the darkest…

In 1692, people were making Salem Witch trials. There was a group of girls who were dancing and singing in the forest with a witch, Tituba. They were doing witchcraft to make some boys of the Salem Town like them. Sam Parris saw the girls and Tituba dancing. To protect themselves, the girls said that there were witches and they acted like they were possessed. So in Salem Village, everyone was accusing other people of witchcraft even they weren’t doing it. This was because the town believed the…

Glinda the Good Witch is the one who told Dorothy to keep the shoes from the Wicked Witch of the West. She is also the one who starts the celebration of the witches death. She explains to Dorothy that only pretty witches can be good, this is in fact the only indication that the wicked witch of the west is bad because of her green skin and mole. It is never expressed what the wicked witch actually does to earn her wicked title. After the wizard is proven…

legal system has changed, due to the impact of what occurred in the Salem Witch Trials. The way our legal system has changed includes the way we punish people including capital punishment. In addition to this it includes the origin of the presumption of innocence, since it is now required that we have evidence before we convict someone of a crime. Salem laws had a lead role in the cruel and deadly punishments of the Salem Witch trials even though there were ways to escape the punishments. Since…

19). It had been a long time ago since the last witch was reported but, many unnatural things had been happening lately in the small town of Salem (Salem witch trials 6). Three curious young girls were experimenting in their basement (Rice 7). These girls had talked the servant into helping them perform this magic because they did not know what they were doing (Don 6). After the girls performed this magic they became greatly ill (Salem witch trials 7). They had constant fits, fevers,…

for complete loyalty.(A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials, 2007.) These people were known as “witches.” Tens of thousands of people were killed for supposedly being witches throughout Europe, and more than 200 people were accused , 20 of them being killed in Massachusetts alone. In this essay I will explain what the Salem Witch Trials were, how they affected the state of Massachusetts, and how they still affect us today. The Salem Witch Trials happened in Massachusetts between 1692…

stayed and took part of the ongoing witch trial. Hale was a second voice to the court and many admired him and his work. I assume that Reverend Parris was quite interested in Hale by the way he had acted in his first meeting with him. Although he was a young doctor, Hale had an increasing reputation among Salem and was respected within the community. When the witch trials began, he would not condemn anyone without investigating, proving that they are indeed a witch but the expectations from the…

Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe C.S Lewis explores a change in the moral order of Narnia, and this relates to the overarching theme of religion that exist within the novel. In Narnia, Aslan is the creator and protector, but the wicked white witch takes over and the citizens of Narnia now call her the Queen. Lewis based the novel on events that occur in the bible, while adding a mystical twist. Aslan knows that Edmund is not aware of the laws of Narnia, so he scarified himself to the witch,…