Warren Zevon

Evil in Salem Abigail Williams is the true witch in Salem. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abby manages to take advantage of the entire town. She fools her uncle Reverend Parris, Reverend Hale, John Proctor, even Judge Danforth and Judge Hathorne. Abby and her army of lying little girls have the town wrapped around their fingers. All it takes is a false accusation to take down their enemies. To make matters even worse, other people in the town start to accuse each other of witchcraft as well,…

The Crucible, the famous and passionate play about the Salem Witch Trials during the 1690s, written by Arthur Miller is an allegory to to the McCarthy Trials of the 1950s. An allegory is a story with two levels of meaning - literal and symbolical. In an allegory, the characters, events and instances all relate to real people, events, and instances (“Definition of Allegory” R104). Characters like Abigail Williams, John Proctor and Judge Hathorne represent the historical figures: Senator Joseph…

The Salem witch trials all started with Tituba who was a slave of Samuel Parris. Several other girls joined Tituba in the kitchen in early 1692. People thought that Tituba and her group had a black magic dance in the woods. The girls would fall to the floor and start screaming and this behavior started to spread all over Salem. Soon after the Puritans believed that the girls would never put themselves under such a spell. They started asking the girls who did this to them and who tortured them,…

Who is the Mockingbird? What thoughts or emotions did Atticus have when he was appointed to defend Thomas Robison of his rape charges against Mayella Ewell? The title of the book is To Kill a Mockingbird and the author of the book is Harper Lee. In the novel Atticus was appointed by the court of Maycomb to defend Thomas Robinson from the crime that he was accused of committing. My Character is Atticus Finch, and he is a lawyer from Maycomb County. He has two children, Jem Finch, and Scout Finch…

Psychology behind the Afflicted Girls Even though The Crucible is fictional, psychology can explain why the girls were acting and accusing the townspeople of the unspeakable act of witchcraft. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a piece of literature that explains, in a fictional way uses a nonfictional event, what went on during the Salem witch trials. Miller’s purpose for writing this novel was to resemble his own problems of communism in his town. Miller himself was accused communism and…

Guilt, Denial and Consequences in God and the Indian Although this play is fiction, it is very likely that many ministers that worked for Residential Schools were haunted by Indian ghost children from their past, much like Lucy for George. God and the Indian by Drew Hayden Taylor is about an Anglican Bishop named George King, who is visited in his office in early 2000’s by Johnny Indian who is determined to make George acknowledge what he did to her 40 years earlier. . George has lived with…

On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Kennedy had planned to fight a war on poverty. The Vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the role as president and carried on with Kennedy’s figurative war, addressing the nation in his speech Let us Continue. Within this speech, Johnson addresses Congress and the American people. On November 27, five days after the assassination, Johnson read Let Us Continue. He used rhetorical devices to uplift the audience. Johnson…

In The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History, Peter C. Hoffer closely examines the many complexities of the bizarre Salem Witchcraft Trials and offers explanations as to what led up to and caused the terrible event. In the book, Hoffer uses analogies and insight to village life to support his explanations. This paper will review Hoffer’s re accounting of the trials, his theories on the trails, and the way in which he presents his arguments. Summary This section contains a summary of The…

Delving even deeper within the psychosocial elements that influenced the early colonists in 1692, Carol Karlsen, in her book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, demonstrates that women's status being particularly confined to that of Puritan definition was strenuous enough to cause such "possessions" to occur (231). What is described as a "cultural performance," Karlsen claims that these performances were representative of a ritual that the young New England girls were performing and that the…

The Time I Saw Darth Vader Die :( Have you ever had your favorite character from any movie, or show, die? I have, it was Darth Vader. He died in the original movie 3:The Return of the Jedi. When I saw him die my eyes started watering, and my face turned red! I held my breath and acted like it was no big deal, but in the inside I was very sad. I was with my mom I was on the couch. He was so AWESOME!!! I still don't get why they killed off Darth Vader, George Lucas knew kids liked…