The interrogator would also ask the tortured witch to declare other people witches‚ often reading a list of names and possibly forcing them to say that suspected people were witches (Gibbons‚ Stage #7). After the confession the court would sentence the witch. The witches were not always executed; sometimes the inquisition’s courts would only punish a witch with banishment or imprisonment. However‚ the secular courts were much more likely to execute witches that they found guilty. The level of punishment
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the witch craze and that is that there is a certain type of individual that was singled out as a witch. The majority of of accused witches were female(Witchcraft Statistics‚ doc 2) and mostly over 50 years old(Witchcraft Statistics doc 3). The witch craze concentrated on elderly women who more often than not were from a low social class (Witchcraft Statistics‚ doc 1.). A combination of religious beliefs‚ social prejudices and cultural precepts helped heighten the already rampant witch persecution
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the play “The Crucible”‚ by Arthur Miller‚ it describes the happenings of the Salem Witchcraft Trials and it symbolizes how The Red Scare‚ After World War Two‚ is so similar as people accused their neighbors and friends for their own personal purpose Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” to show how Senator McCarthy and the HUAC’s actions of accusing communism is similar to Governor Danforth and the Salem Witchcraft Trials are both being fueled by propaganda and misinformation. In his play he changes
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story he was confident in his diagnosis of Betty‚ which was that she was possessed through witchcraft (Miller 1156). He joins the court and signs off on death warrants‚ killing many innocent people. He finally becomes skeptical when Rebecca Nurse is accused of witchcraft‚ because Rebecca Nurse
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level-headed local farmer who valued his public reputation over his better judgment to challenge the accusations driven by hysteria and put an end to the trials. In the scene at Parris’s house‚ Proctor misses an opportunity to stop the consideration of witchcraft as the source of Betty’s illness‚ due to his fear of admitting his amoral relationship with Abigail. His secret relationship with Abigail threatens to diminish his moral standing and influence in the community‚ as well as‚ damage his perception
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were taken really seriously was Witchcraft‚ which was punished by death. A lot of innocent women died during those year in Salem. The punishments for crime in colonial times were not fair. The death penalty was one of the main ways a person was punished. The first person executed for murder was John Billington. He had shot and killed a man during a quarrel. After the incident he was accused of murder and was
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1-566633095 A FEVER IN SALEM POSITS A biological cause for the early modem witchcraft epidemic‚ which resulted in the hanging of 19 people in Salem‚ MA‚ in 1692. Witchcraft persecution‚ Laurie Carlson writes‚ arose because of the strange behavior of the supposedly bewitched accusers. She concludes that the cause was a disease unrecognizable by the science of the time: encephalitis. The history of the Salem witchcraft epidemic is well known. In the winter of 1692‚ two girls suffered convulsions
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I have been near murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people- and this is my reward? To be mistreated‚ denied‚ questioned” (108). Danforth gave Abigail an out but she wouldn’t take it. She continued to lie about the witchcraft instead of admitting that she was wrong. That’s why Abigail is to
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manipulative. It all starts out with her trying to find love in the wrong places. Act I Abby manipulates john procter throughout act 1. In Act I‚ her unique skills and manipulation are clearly shown. When she’s on the edge of getting caught for messing in witchcraft‚ she manages to frame the whole thing on Tituba and many of Salem’s other second-class citizens. since Abys short affair with John Proctor‚ she’s been out to get his wife. abby convinced Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth‚ hoping to get rid of
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the troubles of trying to preserve agriculture in a cruel climate escorted by uneven ground‚ Salem also encountered political anarchy as well as economic disorder. In this specific society‚ a party of young women condemned an Indian slave girl of witchcraft. She‚ Tituba‚ confessed due to the harassment from the judiciary administration. Her confession stimulated a search for witches that left nineteen executed by hanging‚ one tortured to death‚ and more than 160 citizens were in prison waiting for
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