damnation and hell in order to strike fear into his parishioners. Why is Thomas Putnam willing to speak of witchcraft? Thomas Putnam demonstrates that his motivation involves his longstanding grudges against others; the witchcraft trials give Putnam an opportunity to exact revenge against others‚ and‚ as will later be shown‚ to profit economically from others’ executions. How does Mrs. Putnam know what Ruth was doing in the woods? ... Why does Abigail "admit" that
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Meet Ann Putnam Jr. at 12 years old who played a very important part in the witch trials of 1692 as one of three afflicted kids.Anna was the daughter of the Salem witch trials leader. She was born on October 18‚1679 in Salem Massachusetts‚she was one of three children‚ Thomas and Ann were her siblings and she was the eldest. In March‚1692 she proclaimed to be affiliated. At this time‚ Ann’s Mother Ann was still mourning the death of her daughter and she claimed that later she had been attacked
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then Mrs. Putnam comes to the conclusion that Betty is bewitched and cannot hear the Lord’s name without pain. I asked if Parris consulted the legal authorities or called a town meeting before he asked Reverend Hale to uncover the demons in Salem. Rebecca feared that a witch-hunt will spark even more disputes. Putnam demanded Parris to have Hale search for signs of witchcraft. I reminded Putnam that he cannot command Parris and that Salem doesn’t grant votes on the basis of wealth. Putnam replied
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with john proctor. 4) What information about Thomas Putnam does Arthur Miller tell us in his expository aside? What does Ann Putnam claim in the play about her dead babies? Thomas Putnam is a wealthy man and that the village should look or appreciate him more. Her baby’s were murdered by a women. 5) Before the arrival of John Hale‚ what are some of the subjects for petty disagreement among John Proctor‚ Giles Corey‚ Thomas Putnam‚ and Samuel Parris? They were disagreeing about the
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Salem witch trials spread across massachusetts like a plague. A war started by jealousy‚ carried on by reputation and ended in tragedy. In the novel‚ the Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the Parris family‚ the Procter Family‚ Giles Corey‚ and the Putnam family can be compared and contrasted to their real life personas. Miller demonstrates a rather dramatic story of a group of families pulled together and ripped apart due to a jealous little girl. But his has some big differences to reality. Tituba
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CRUCIBLE INTRODUCTIONARY NOTES The crucible by Arthur Miller‚ is a play that deals with conflicts involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692. The characters in Miller’s theocratic society are not only in conflict with their environment‚ but with each other and their religious authority. John Proctor sacrifices his life as he battles his individual conscience‚ guilt and the authority of the church. In his play‚ Miller shows that when an individual questions the dominant values of a society
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herself. The grudge between the Proctors and Abigail is not the only one themed in The Crucible. For example‚ Giles Corey has a grudge with Thomas Putnam because Putnam had accused Jacobs of witchcraft so that he could buy his land. Giles accuses Putnam of this by saying‚ "Thomas Putnam is reaching out for land!" (Miller‚ pg 958) He knows that Putnam is the only one in Salem who can afford Jacobs’s land if it were to be auctioned off. These are just two of the many examples of the role that grudges
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Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history‚" Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible‚ his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem‚ Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events‚ Miller’s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem‚ rumours that women are
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In Our Kids‚ Robert Putnam argues that the American Dream of equal opportunity has all but ceased to exist in recent years. Driven primarily by the economic divergence of the upper and lower classes‚ children of today overwhelming follow in the educational and economic footsteps of their parents. These economic factors are then further perpetuated and entrenched by the lifestyle gap between the different classes. Spurred on by geographic sorting and the decline of US manufacturing‚ inequality on
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Putnam begins his journey of semantic refutation‚ with the natural first step since Socrates and the Sophists. That of systematically breaking down the opposing argument‚ the central thesis of his writing. That opposition being the skeptical argument‚ of: 1) If I know that P‚ then I know that I am not a BIV 2) I don’t know that I am not a BIV 3) Thus‚ I do not know P. This is akin to the question posed by Descartes‚ and the inability to legitimately verify that our own experience isn’t an individual
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