How would the word Crucible be defined? The word crucible can be defined as a severe test or trial. Nevertheless the definition describes “The Crucible” because throughout the play witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts took place. These trials were extreme and intense‚ as a Crucible is defined. One major charter in which the symbolic significance of the title relates to is Abigail Williams. Throughout the play Abigail acted extreme about having spirits cast on her and accusing others of being witches
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Put yourself in Salem‚ Massachusetts back in 1692 being punished for the wicked games of witchcraft. Now imagine being preached at in a crowd full of awful sinners. Johnathan Edwards in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ tries to scare his readers into not sinning. He is also trying to persuade them to convert into pure Christians. Arthur Miller in‚ The Crucible compares McCarthyism in America to witchcraft in Salem. History was repeated when both Arthur Miller and Johnathan Edwards write the
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They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.The Patriots viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of the rights of Massachusetts‚ and in September of 1774 they organized the First Continental Congress to coordinate a protest. As tensions escalated‚ the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775‚ leading in July 1776 to the declaration of an independent United States
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In the New England colonies‚ (Massachusetts ‚Connecticut‚ New Hampshire and Rhode island)‚ they were economically different because they were deeply connected into the triangular trade network that was linked to New England ‚ the Caribbean and the west African coast. The colonist relied on the imports for glass hardware‚ machinery navigational instruments and other household items like tea. Politically New England was mainly governed by puritans. The Massachusetts Bay company stockholders got together
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Richard September 19‚ 2005 The Threat of Anne Hutchinson Questions: What had Anne Hutchinson done? Why was Anne Hutchinson such a threat to the Massachusetts Bay colony? How was Anne Hutchinson’s trial an ordeal for her and how was it an ordeal for the community? Anne Hutchinson‚ for centuries now‚ has been seen as a woman who paved the way for religious freedom. She was a great leader in the cause for religious toleration in America and the advancement of women in society. Anne Hutchinson
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John Hancock. In retaliation for the Boston Tea Party‚ the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts of 1774‚ which closed the port of Boston and substituted martial law for the authority of the Massachusetts legislature‚ were seen as unjustified intrusions into the internal affairs of a colony. What had been inflicted on Massachusetts could be applied to other colonies. Finally‚ the Quebec Act of 1774‚ which recognized the rights of Roman Catholics in an enlarged province of Quebec‚ raised anti-Catholic fears‚
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What truly happened amid Salem 1692? Numerous inquiries still frequent numerous Americans at the outset of the twenty-first century. Amid 1692 the general population of Massachusetts were living in trepidation about sinister burdens‚ similar to the same way other people feels about terrorism around the globe today. Everything about witchcraft flare-up amid that year was weird. Numerous reactions to the data were never replied amid the late seventeenth-century when the witchcraft emergency happened
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The Crucible takes place in a real life town called Salem in Massachusetts where the Salem witch trials also took place at‚ during the life at Salem‚ there have some account of witchery within it and when the time came for the trials law‚ it strike salem and other towns very hard‚ accusing the innocents and others using the law to seek revenge of other for either greed/lust of items/land. while the corrupted ones use the law to it’s advantage by accusing others‚ jails and hangings were high by this
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FRQ | 1600 | 1650 | 1699 | Theocracy | Williams and Hutchinson’s challenges to spiritual practices undermine public perception of Puritan Church | Increased influence of other colonies‚ especially Virginia‚ lead to a decline in commitment to the religious/political ideals | Salem Witch trial discredits the Puritan church‚ and much remaining credibility is lost | Economic Equality | ___________________ | Laws forbid the pricing of an item t more than 5% over its actual costs | Rise of free
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the Church of England to the Puritan lifestyle. The pull for the moderate Puritans‚ like the Separatists‚ was land to practice their religion. They‚ on the other hand‚ had a royal charter‚ the Massachusetts Bay Charter‚ that granted them land for settlement. They decided to colonize present day Massachusetts‚ and create the city of Boston. Finally‚ the Dutch had push and pull factors for colonization of the English Colonies. One push factor for
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