Witchcraft

make sure things go as she wants them to. Abigail’s primary concern is her reputation when she exclaims, “[in a temper]: My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled!...” (12) She is motivated to cover up the rumors of witchcraft and hide her affair with John Proctor, fearing the consequences. The curt manner in which she addresses Reverend Parris, causes her to obtain power and install fear in people. When Abigail uses violence towards Betty, Abigail coldly turns to…

showed that he did not hold this quality. Often times, he would try and force a confession of witchcraft out of people. He never gave people time to open up and either tell the truth, or lie. For example, Danforth makes Reverend Hale try to make Rebecca Nurse confess that she is a witch. Once Hale says that he needs more time to make her open up, Danforth gets mad because he wants people to profess their witchcraft in that moment in time. The impatience is what makes Danforth such bad fit for a…

understand things well. When Shakespeare was introduced to the culture he added to the superstition because it worked off of existing superstitions and made them more advanced. At the time of Macbeth’s release, witchcraft was a very tense subject and many people were killed due to accusations of witchcraft such as the salem witch trials in which 20 people were executed for just being ‘witches’. This is an obvious connection to Shakespeare's plays because in Macbeth there are three devious…

night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright, is all” (Miller 149). She told John that when they were alone. She was telling the truth to him, and he never told anyone. Because no one knew the truth, the girls started accusing people of witchcraft. The people they accused got hung. Their fear had killed innocent people. Another character who fell into the hands of fear, was Mary Warren. Mary Warren knew the girls afflicted were lying, because she was with Tituba too. When Elizabeth…

Witches Bewitched Practice and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups, the definition of witchcraft. Witch trials series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. In the Crucible, by Arthur Miller, many people were accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials that lasted from 1692 until 1693. These people were accused by children who sought for attention and were overcome with fear. It’s evident that many people played a role…

be announced innocent or would be given a punishment. This depended on the witch’s testimony that would be given to the judges. Often these testimonies that are given by these witches are usually admitting to witchcraft and shortly after accuse someone else. Some did not admit to witchcraft…

The Crucible in the 1950s. Miller wrote The Crucible because he wanted to let the reader know that there’s a correspondence of the communist witch hunts in the 1950’s and the witch hunts in 1692. In Salem Massachusetts, 1692 , the settlement had a witchcraft hysteria which ended up in the deaths of 20 people for being accused of witches and jailing 150 others. The correspondence between of the communist witch hunts in the 1950s and the witch hunts in 1950s and the witch hunts in 1950s are high,…

Women in Salem are accused of performing witchcraft because they have been rumored to participate in or cause certain supernatural events. Eventually gossip of even the purest women, such as Rebecca Nurse, being witches circulates within Salem, forcing many to go on trial. Consequently, almost every…

decision to confess or not to confess. This concerns confessing to witchcraft and general confessions to save others or to save oneself. The author uses characterization on multiple characters to support this. Such characters include John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca Nurse. John Proctor is put into a strenuous situation where he must try to prove his wife of innocence to witchcraft. Johns wife, Elizabeth, was accused of witchcraft by their old servant Abigail Williams whom John had an…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and consisted of prosecutions of women and some men who were thought to have been practicing witchcraft. These women were taken to trial, and if they were convicted of practicing witchcraft, they were violently put to death. With the rising tensions in the colony, The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were caused by curiosity in religious beliefs, young women claiming they were possessed by the devil, and troubles arising among the community. By this point the…