The Witch

The Crucible follows the story of the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts during 1692. The society of Salem values the aspects of sameness and conformity. This society does not encourage difference, and anyone or anything that is seen to be different arouses bad suspicions within the community. Currently, there has been talks about the existence of Salem witches and some people in the society believe this to be true, and want to prove it. These suspicions further increase…

factor in this era. Another important event that took place in this time period was the Salem witch trials. During these trials many innocent people lost their lives and it had inspired people for many centuries to write stories and plays based on the event, to tell of the horrible trials the people went through and to compare to modern day conflicts. One play that was wrote based off of the Salem witch trials was “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller published in 1952 to compare the mass hysteria of…

Despite what some people believe, the Salem Witch Trials are an important part of American history because innocent people lost their lives, it could have been prevented, and something similar could happen again if people aren't careful. The trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. It wasn’t until 3 years after the trials had ended, that the Massachusetts court declared that what had happened was unlawful and took steps to make it better. These trials have been a popular…

A major tragedy in American History occurred known as Salem Witch Hunt. In the year of 1692, 150 women and men had been accused, tortured, arrested, put to trial and charged with the crimes of witchcraft. The Salem witchcraft incident began when two young girls, nine-year old Elizabeth Parris and eleven year old Abigail Williams began to have strange fits. Samuel Parris did not believe that his daughter and niece were bewitched. However, Physician William Griggs believed, “the girls were under…

Imagine yourself being accused of witchcraft. Many women and some men were accused of witchcraft. The Salem witch trials where when people were accused of being inhabited or taken by the devil. There were 20 people executed because of it. Many Puritans have lived here in Salem, Massachusetts. People want to learn why it happened and what caused it. There were many factors that led to the Salem witch trial hysteria in 1692. Many of the people wear mostly woman, therefore one of the…

and why they continued. The Crucible also provides insight into the cold war time period and things that people did in fear of Soviet spies and how similar it was to a “Witch Hunt”. The Crucible is mainly about how mass hysteria can cause small harmless events to get out of hand quickly even to the point of murder. The Salem witch trials took place because no one thought to stop it until it was too late and it all began because of a…

Summary of Event: Wicked is a musical about how the witches from The Wizard of Oz became friends. Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west, goes to Shiz University to help care for her little sister Nessarose. Her roommate at Shiz ends up being Glinda the Good. The professor at Shiz realizes that Elphaba has great powers and decides to teach her sorcery and gives her a chance to meet the Wizard. Elphaba and Glinda go together to meet the wizard and while there she is given the spell book which…

The Salem Witch Trials began after Reverend Parris caught the girls dancing in the woods. Dancing is against their religion; they are Puritans. Dancing was a seen as a sin, an act of the devil. When asked if they summoned the devil, Abigail Williams spoke up and blamed…

She had been taught by her mentor, who was her mistress from a different place and was indeed a witch. She taught her countermagic. To this account she also denied that she wasn’t a witch even though she had committed acts that seemed suspicious or looked liked witchcraft. Soon later other women were blamed of using witchcraft such as Goody Osborne and Sarah Good with Tituba were accused of…

said, “Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it 's someone else 's witch being hunted.” Krin is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and has authored a handful of previous works of fiction. This quote applies to Richard Godbeer’s historical monologue Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 in the sense that most people have viewed the Salem Witch Trials as a form of entertainment in recent decades. His work, however, brings forward the reality of witch trials and the…