emotional divide that the audience easily pick up on. On top of the affair‚ living in a puritan society which can be demeaning to women makes the situation and the divide even more prominent. However the couple’s actions towards each other and Johns anger towards himself over the affair that he had shows how much they really love each other. Even without the affair‚ difference in character and living in a harsh puritan society is any relationship ever ‘easy’? Act2:scene1 starts in John’s house‚ it
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begin to assume something else is occurring. Their inability to comprehend the true nature of the situation leads them to deduce that the true cause of their woes were something that nobody could control‚ the supernatural‚ and more specifically‚ witchcraft. They picked this supernatural cause to blame for their problem‚ and eventually managed to use it in order to hold the minds of the entire town in a common fear of the supernatural. Personally I believe that the girls‚ led by Abby‚ were merely using
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Catholics and Protestants labor shortage headright system Act of Toleration in 1649 - religious freedom to all Christians Caribbean Settlement - Europeans crop exportation economy - sugar and rum intense labor slaves Massachusetts - Puritan Separatists Sept 1620 - Mayflower‚ arrived Dec 21‚ 1620 settled on Plymouth‚ Capt John Smith discovered earlier Mayflower Compact - first form of constitution - est. civil govt and proclaimed allegiance to king made alliance with natives Thanksgiving
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ironically displays the faithless puritan society not only religious wise but their attitude towards the condemned/sinners.John Proctor tried to separate himself from the puritans one sided thinking‚ he held to his integrity and died honorably. Reverend John Hale and John Proctor both thought they could reverse the hysteria in salem‚ they didn’t understand the forces that were against them. Hale in chapter one comes to salem as the spirit doctor to evaluate the witchcraft activity in salem‚ he thought
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figure during this time‚ whose writings on witchcraft‚ particularly in The Wonders of the Invisible World‚ fed the hysteria that led to many women being persecuted‚ and for some‚ put to death. Mather‚ labeling himself as simply a “historian” (310)‚ was able to poison his text with propaganda while keeping himself clean‚ in hopes to spur a hunt for witches. He focused on certain types of women in particular in order to further his agenda to sustain a Puritan way of life‚ serve as an explanation to
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The accusations started to make the Puritans think that witches were around after carrying on this belief with them from Europe which caused the magistrates to take these matters seriously. Tituba was first in the Puritan girls accusations‚ Tituba eventually admitted to being a witch claiming that devil forced her to do so and said that evil was looming over Salem. Two other women who were alleged as witches denied any wrongdoing but because of Tituba’s testimony‚ the view of the people changed.
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had accused villagers of being involved with witchcraft‚ and Joseph McCarthy had accused innocent government officials of being involved with the communists in Russia. Most
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state of disharmony‚ opposition and or fighting. The conflict portrayed in the Crucible is often described as tools used to describe events in Millers time period. For example‚ witchcraft doesn’t exist in Salem yet that is the basis of the storyline of the play and many people die as a result of accusations over witchcraft. During the time Miller wrote this book‚ the cold war was happening and many people in America were accused of communism (including Miller himself)‚ when they were accused they
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As England pushed religion to the side and began to focus more on politics the puritans still valued their religious views‚ they saw the change that was taking place so they flee from their mother land seeking to purify their beliefs once more. The Salem witch trials were a significant part of history because it showed the government that religious can’t be mixed with social and political rights because of the strict or tight interpretation it provides. The trials were run by multiple factors such
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Bianca Pena Dr. Coers English 1302.040 Research Paper: Hysteria and Fear during the Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials was a mass hysteria of executions and accusations. The fear was caused by the hysteria of women being bewitched and bewitching others. This is such a controversial event‚ and it’s hardly applicable to prove if the events leading to the Witch Trials were accurate. So I ask‚ “What were the causes of the Salem Witch Trials‚ and the events leading up to the causes
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