White Witch

The novel written by Maryse Conde, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is an interesting novel expanding on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts. Conde bring Tituba's character out of a historical silence, and creates a personal narrative of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Within this tale, Tituba tells her story in first person and although it may be fiction, Conde does well at making it seem it was true. Tituba addresses the…

During specific situations, people often are conflicted whether to act according to the community or on the behalf of themselves. The majority often follows the group’s desires in order to avoid backlash or punishment. This was evident during the Salem Witch Trials when innocent people, accused of witchcraft, lied to avoid death. However, in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, when John Proctor is put on trial, his refusal to “confess” to witchcraft reflects his character transformation from prideful…

The next case study examines the links between globalisation and conflict in Peruvian Arawak communities, specifically the occurrence of accusations of child sorcery. In the 2003 book ‘Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia’, author Fernando Santos wrote a chapter exploring how the modernising forces of globalisation often result in an escalation in accusations of witchcraft among children. Globalisation in the Arawak communities over the last couple…

In the Salem witch trials 200 people were accused of witchcraft and twenty people were actually executed for it. The play that is the basis of the essay is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during these Salem witch trials. One of the main characters that this play is centered around, John Proctor, a farmer in his middle thirties. As a morally ambiguous character in The Crucible, John Proctor had both honorable and disgraceful actions that contributed to the work as a whole. John Proctor has…

blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing emotions. The Asian countries’ locations from Saito’s study are more industrious than the United States. This could explain why white was preferred in Asian countries, but green was preferred in the United States. Because of all…

associates Daisy with the color white, but to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream” (Schneider 2). Nick discovers white is a corrupt mixture of dream and reality (Schneider 3). To Gatsby, white is not pure, but it is inevitably stained by money. Daisy is a white flower with a golden center. In The Great Gatsby gold, along with silver symbolizes the dream and the reality. When Nick first sees Daisy, he notes they are “like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses…” [qtd in…

In “The Second Coming,” what does Yeats mean when he writes “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” (line 2)? How does this relate to “the centre cannot hold” (line 3)? In “The Second Coming” there is a footnote at the end of the first line explaining what Yeats envisioned for the word gyre. It mentions that it was meant to represent the age of Christians and how it was spiraling downwards to an end. With this in mind, the second line that reads, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” it paints a…

shifts in color and lines. For example, Sophia’s white hair is formed by the use of a shift from the black background and her darker checkered body. Consequently. both lines and shift in color are implied at the same time as it creates shapes in the artwork. In this artwork, the light source is not seen. On the other hand, the light source is placed in the left of the artwork. This is presented when Minter uses the black Ben-Day dots overlaying white. It shows the artworks focal point, Sophia,…

the color “white” in both Sonnet 12 and 99 represents one of Shakespeare’s most prominent themes: the inevitable concept of time, in Sonnet 12, the narrator, reflects that the only defense against Time’s scythe is having children (leaving behind a legacy), while in Sonnet 99, the narrator condemns four different types of flowers for stealing attributes of his beloved (the Lilies stole the whiteness of his beloved’s hand, for example). In Sonnet 12, the narrator uses the color “white” to…

Color symbolism has an influential role in The Great Gatsby, as it has had in many literary works throughout history. It is used many times to give a deeper meaning to the story, and convey messages that the author doesn’t explicitly say. It is the responsibility of the reader to read closely, and try to find the deeper meaning in specific details of the story. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a tale is told of Jay Gatsby. Jay is a new money business man, and is intent on trying…