Shortly after the girls expressed what they were feeling other afflicted girls began to show the same symptoms. At the end of February Doctor William Griggs was called in‚ he could not find any problems with the girls and stated that they must be bewitched. Shortly after the doctors statement Abigail and the other afflicted girls named three women who they suspected were bewitching them: Tituba‚ Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne. The women were then arrested and examined on March 1st were Tituba claimed
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Abigail is a mean and vindictive person who always wants her way‚ no matter who she hurts. Throughout the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering‚ but she seemed to never care for any of them except John Proctor‚ whom she had an affair with seven months prior to the beginning of the play. The lies begin to unravel as the reader dives into the book
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The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because
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out what was wrong with Betty‚ and to hunt witches. “He checks on Betty to see why she will not wake up.” (Miller 1149) Reverend Hale declares Betty and a group of girls as possessing witchcraft because he believed the girls’ stories about being bewitched. “Once the people in Salem hear the news‚ they became outrageous.” (Miller 1155) The people immediately started a trail to hunt down the witches. Reverend Hale goes around‚ and studies the accused people. When in court‚ if the person accused did
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How does Austen present the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth?Awareness of social status is a central theme of the novel. The pride and prejudice of both Darcy and Lizzy‚ and the strong-willed stubbornness of their characters make them an unlikely match. However‚ Austen begins to show how‚ despite the inferiority of her connections; Lizzys superior intellectuality makes her an ideal companion for Darcy. Austen portrays Lizzys supercilious nature through her response to Mr. Darcys request
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forswear it‚ sight!/For I ne ’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare‚ Romeo and Juliet 1.5.4950). The chorus comments on Romeo’s quick decision‚ “With tender Juliet match ’d‚ is now not fair./ Now Romeo is beloved and loves again‚/ Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” (2. prologue. 46). Friar Lawrence even remarks on Romeo’s actions as he gets enraged at Romeo’s
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Throughout the epic‚ Beowulf demonstrated his strength as a warrior and a leader. When Grendel arrived at Herot‚ the other warriors “could not scratch at his skin‚ for that sin-stained demon had bewitched all men’s weapons‚ laid spells that blunted every mortal man’s blade.”(92-94). Beowulf took charge and used his own hands to fight and eventually defeat Grendel since his fellow men could not do so. This conveys how Beowulf was not only physically
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him. Grendel is a monster full of resentment‚ angry and fierce. His “eyes gleamed in the darkness” (line 17)‚ “his mind was hot” (line 23)‚ he had “swift hard claws” ( line 29) and “powerful jaws” (line 32). His skin couldn’t be scratched and he “bewitched all spells” (line 93). His physical description shows a horrid being with a supernatural anatomy. Grendel‚ not only had a disgusting appearance but an evil soul. “Grendel came hoping to kill” (line 4)‚ and showing his hatred for humans. It is a
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Paranoia‚ Unaccountability‚ and Drunkenness : The Black Cat “I became insane‚ with long intervals of horrible sanity.” -Edgar Allen Poe In his story “The Black Cat”‚ Edgar Allen Poe acquaints us to a death row inmate who‚ believing he was bewitched by at cat‚ wishes to find “... some intellect more calm‚ more logical... which will perceive (his circumstances) nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects” (1). The man‚ also our narrator is an insane and opprobrious
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The Crucible Summary _________________________________________________ Act 1 Portrayed in Massachusetts - 1962‚ the play begins with the prayers of Reverend Samuel Parris in his house‚ next to his daughter’s bed. His ten-year old daughter - Betty‚ who became ill and unconscious ever since Parris found her dancing in the woods with Abigail – his seventeen-year old niece – and Tituba – his slave from Barbados – with some of other girls in the village. Worried about Betty and her
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