It was not odd that they would not confess the first demonstration as reasonable proof against the accused and the trial continued after this acknowledgment was deemed forged, even though this witness was the sole grounds on which the accused names were originally issued was baffling. The early accusation is must be taken on reliance, and the reliance in Branch was dubious and not proven, best emphasized by this quote, “Perhaps, as the ministers suggested, her torments were a combination of involuntary fits and crafted performance.”
During the trials, even some active accusers and the magistrate were doubtful of her accusations because of her respectable reputation (Linder). Moreover, Rebecca was innocent because she never confessed to her accusation and responded, “I am innocent and God will clear my innocency” (Ray). Also, the first jury’s verdict on her of “Not Guilty” and the probation granted by Governor Phips that proved her innocence were purposely overturned by her rivals and accusers (Ray). In
Abigail Williams' character is far from being innocent. She started the main problem in The Crucible and blamed whoever she could to keep herself out of trouble. This character
Preceding the Salem witch trails, the court fell under attack. Those who made confessions began to recant them. Though they played a direct role in the executions of innocent people, they insisted that they only made accusations out of force. In Document 77, Margaret Jacobs describes the ordeal of how she was told to either confess or be hanged. In another record, “Declaration of Mary Osgood, Mary Tyler, Deliverance Dane, Abigail Barker, Sarah Wilson, and Hannah Tyler,” the girls contend, “There was no other way to save our lives, as the case was then circumstanced, but by our confessing ourselves to be such and such persons as the afflicted represented us to be; they out of tenderness and pity persuaded us to confess what we did confess”
A.Holmes 27 January 2023 CCR ENGLISH III Block 2 The theme of the Crucible is false accusations. It talks about how Abigail Williams accused John and Innocent people. The girls of Salem also went along with Abigail’s lies. They were scared of her
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong In Brandon L. Garrett 's book, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, he makes it very clear how wrongful convictions occur and how these people have spent many years in prison for crimes they never committed. Garrett presents 250 cases of innocent people who were convicted wrongfully because the prosecutors opposed testing the DNA of those convicted. Garrett provided simple statistics such as graphs, percentages, and charts to help the reader understand just how great of an impact this was.
Like Abigail utterly told liars about how Elizabeth spirit had stabbed her at the dinner table but actually Abigail framed Goody Proctor with the doll Mary Warren had made as evidence to stable herself. Also Abigail accused Mary Warren for working with the devil in the setting of act three in the courtroom. The girls in courtroom acted as if Mary spirit was attacking them ,to scare her back to their side. Giles Corey also accused Thomas Putnam for being gluttonous for more land and therefore accusing his neighbors for it.
Some people use lies to cover up or solve problems. Abigail feared being accused of witchcraft, so she accused others of witchcraft. She tried to use lies to solve her problems, but ended up creating a worse situation. Abigail’s lies had affected many of the characters.
One of the innocent characters that are accused is Elizabeth
Instead of the girls owning up to their wrong doings, they pointed their fingers at innocent people. Claiming that they sent their spirits to do harm to them. Stating that they would make them drink blood, force them to do the devil's work, chock them, and hurt them without the person ever being there. Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor are just a few who are being accused of such accusations. The townspeople however did believed the girls and it all ended up in court.
She, while under accusations from Abigail and others, sees a viable solution to the problem, confession. She does this whilst encompassed with fear from the false accusation of witchcraft. This falsity invokes fear, since she does not posses any excuse testable by the court she resorts to indicting others as witches. The realization of the only opportunity given
192-194). She had come to tell me that Abigail is accusing me the next day court is in session. Now I have to make the big decision of how my life will turn out. I am choosing to confess and accuse. I do not want to accuse anyone who has not been accused already and bring new names to the table.
BIOGRAPHY Edgar Allen Poe was a very creative writer, he was the first person ever to make a full time living off of writing alone. He was very different from other writers. People thought that there was something wrong with him the way that he writes because it was a very dark perspective. He wrote horror, mystery, fiction, macabre, poetry, and even criticism. Edgar had a very unfortunate childhood and started writing at a young age also.
All these characters have what they feel, is a logical reason for lying, but the question why do people lie to others and themselves, is something to ponder while reading the play. People lie to themselves to make them feel better about their own lives and people lie to others to cover up something they may be ashamed of. One reason people lie to themselves is to make them feel better about their own life and what they 're going through. Abigail is reprimanding the girls for saying things about witchcraft she doesn 't approve of.
All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by
