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    townspeople. Giles Corey‚ unknowingly put his own wife into jail‚ is the strongest against this hysteria. Amongst the chaos‚ Giles Corey becomes the most fearless and righteous man of Salem because of his stubbornness to protect his friends and family‚ loyalty towards his fellow friends‚ and love for his family. Giles Corey will do everything in his power to protect his family and his

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    village is one between Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam‚ who argue about a plot of land and its ownership. Once the accusations begin‚ everyone has a reason to accuse someone else of witchcraft. When Putnam’s daughter accuses George Jacobs of witchery‚ Corey quickly notices a motive and claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs’ land. Additionally‚ even the slightest offhand remark can result in the suspicion of one working with the devil. In another example of hasty accusations‚ Giles Corey casually mentions

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    Giles Corey: The Truly Honorable Person The Crucible‚ a play written by Arthur Miller‚ is a story that takes place around the Salem witch trials in 1692. The play mainly focuses around the Proctor family‚ John and Elizabeth Proctor are wrongfully accused of witchcraft just like the rest of the town. Giles Corey is a local senior citizen and well known throughout the town‚ he mentions that his wife reads strange books and his wife gets accused even though she just reads. Giles Corey starts to realise

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    “I cannot give you no name sir‚ I cannot.”‚ exclaimed Giles Corey in The Crucible‚ as he argued with Governor Danforth about a deposition. Giles Corey is an eighty-three year old resident in the humble town of Salem situated in the state of Massachusetts. Giles Corey is knotted with muscle‚ canny‚ inquisitive‚ and still powerful. Mr. Corey is married to his wife‚ Martha Corey. Giles Corey and myself have many traits in common such as being greedy for more‚ determined in the work that we do‚ and also

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    you have given yourself to the reading of fortunes‚ Do you deny it?”. She responds saying‚” I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.” 2.Giles Corey accuses Thomas Putnam’s of his purpose in promoting the witch trials to be morally unsound. Giles declares‚” Thomas Putnam is reaching out for land!” By yelling this in the courtroom‚ Giles is thrown out and causes quite a commotion. 3.Judge Danforth thinks he is superior and righteous. He has already signed the death warrants for 72 women

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    society‚ while also showing the injustices faced by the society of the one he lived in. The Crucible has character John Proctor who is a aware of the unlawful accusations of witchcraft. John Proctor has a very close friend‚ Giles Corey who is very against the accusations as his wife has been accused and he knows the only reason for the witch trials is vengeance from the town girls. Giles Corey represents Arthur Miller’s role in McCarthyism‚ the “witch trials” of the 1950s. Arthur Miller’s story correlated

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    The Transformation of Giles Corey Although Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ focuses primarily on other charactersGiles Corey presents an interesting view of how circumstances can force a man to examine his own views and step into becoming a staunch advocate for the truth and a role model for others. In his first appearance‚ Corey seems to be a fairly typical cantankerous old man. He arrives with John Proctor in Rev. Parris’s house because he’s curious about the rumors of magic. He asks if

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    Giles Corey was a successful farmer and an active member of the Salem church‚ but this reputable model citizen was not looked lightly upon when the word "witch" started floating around. In April of 1692‚ Ann Putnam‚ Jr.‚ Mercy Lewis‚ and Abigail Williams pointed a scornful finger at Giles. Ann said that Corey supposedly came to her on the 13th of April and asked her to write in "the devil’s book." She later said that a ghost came to her‚ asking to be avenged against his killer‚ Giles Corey. Corey

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    sarcastic quote is from Giles Corey when he was talking to Reverend Parris about his earnings per year in the story The Crucible. Giles Corey was an 83 year old man. He was married to Martha Corey who was accused of witchcraft and was his third wife. When she got accused he tried to help and was later held in contempt of court‚ accused of witchcraft and pressed to death. Giles Corey and I are very similar because we are both sarcastic‚ instigators and we are both loyal. Both Giles and I share the trait

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    Giles Corey is an 81 year-old man he has a wife name Martha Corey who is a 72 year-old woman they live in a town called Salem‚ Massachusetts. In the play The Crucible we find out that Giles Corey is a not-so-smart man‚ but towards the end of the play we see that he dies with integrity for his family. Giles Corey role in this play is that he is an uneducated man that is very concerned that wife Martha reads books giles corey can not read like his wife does‚ he does not go to church often‚ and we

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