and is often depicted as the villain of the play. Some of her actions lead to the witch trials and the hysteria in Salem. This essay will analyse to what extent the character of Abigail is to blame for the events that occur in Salem‚ and therefore if the opinion that many people have on her is correct. On the one hand Abigail can be seen as she who starts and consequentially continues the hysteria in Salem. It is in fact from the start of the play‚ when she is found dancing in the woods with her friends
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria? 1692 was a year packed with excitement and terror for the citizens of Salem‚ Massachusetts. Belief and accusations of people being witches/warlocks under the possession of the Devil swept across the town and wreaked havoc among its settlers. There are many possible ways to justify this madness. However‚ the 3 most valid and evidential reasons are: attention-seeking‚ jealousy (of one another and the amount of land owned)‚ and lack of acceptance towards
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The Salem witch trials was a trial based on the principles theocratic government and accusation of Witchcraft. The Salem witch trials had led to the execution of fifteen people‚ and the imprisonment of five others‚ all who died within jail. It had all started from the spread of mass hysteria. Shortly afterwards‚ people began to realize the huge folly of this type of theocratic style of government‚ and by 1697 the general of Massachusetts Court had even called for a day of fasting in respect for the
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their lives. They were also under a lot of stress‚ trying to make it in the New World‚ which only put more pressure on them. Then the trigger happened to start the trials when Tituba‚ who was accused of witchcraft‚ confessed that she was doing work for the Devil‚ along with some of her friends. Hysteria soon swept over Salem and a witch hunt began. Girls began to have symptoms of which craft
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to God would save them. They believed that natural disasters would be the work of the devil and its followers. This strict lifestyle cause them to become paranoid and suspicious of each other. Their hysteria led to the Salem Witch trials in 1692‚ where each person would blame each other for witchcraft and be executed for working with the devil. In today’s society the similarities we have with the Puritans of the 1600’s is that we have moral codes that we follow to live in peace. If anyone
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Camryn Hannemann Period: 6 Ms. Maresh The Witches who visited Salem The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller about a case of mass hysteria dating to 1600s Salem. During that time people were tried and hanged for supposedly being “witches.” In reality‚ witchcraft is and always was a myth; the real motivation for the witch hunts was probably greed or feuding between families that inhabited Salem at the time. During the trials‚ people really believed that there were witches and fell into a mob
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Vengeance is a powerful thing in Salem. With young women accusing anyone as witches and putting them on trial hoping they will be hung made certain people believe these women were seeking revenge. There were multiple accounts of young women having conflicts with good citizens and later bringing them trial. For example Mary Warren versus Sarah Good. Sarah good was known as a dirty beggar. Her and her husband would go door to door and ask people for charity. One day Sarah knocked on the door of Mary
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of a public concern. In Salem everything and everyone either belongs to God or the Devil. Another theme that was noticed was the role that hysteria played within tearing apart a community. Hysteria is supplanting logic and enabling people to believe their neighbors are commenting absurd and unbelievable crimes. Those crimes were normally called witchcraft and were communing with the devil‚ killing
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MODERN EUROPE By: Brian Levack The Witch-Hunt in Modern Europe by Brian Levack proved to be an interesting as well as insightful look at the intriguing world of the European practice of witchcraft and witch-hunts. The book offers a solid‚ reasonable interpretation of the accusation‚ prosecution‚ and execution for witchcraft in Europe between 1450 and 1750. Levack focuses mainly on the circumstances from which the witch-hunts emerged‚ as this report will examine. The causes of witch-hunting have been sometimes
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were ‘blacklisted’ and lost their jobs. Some committed suicide as a result” (Price 16). The Salem witch trials and McCarthyism prove that the best weapon against man is his own fear. Multiple factors contributed to the increasing hysteria and accusations of witchcraft in Salem as well as in the 1950’s Red Scare. For example some people speculated that the girls were actually possessed though unlikely it could be possible. Another possibility is a fungus called ergot that has LSD like affects could
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