The Wescots believed that Kate was an easy target, because, as a poor orphan, she secretly desired the “fine things” (20) that Satan would offer her. Because of beliefs about spiritual inferiority, women were suspected and accused of witchcraft more so than men. Women were more likely to be accused if they had a history of refusing to submit to authority. Mercy Disborough and Elizabeth Clawson had both quarreled with the Wescots, giving them a motive for bewitching Kate. The idea of a woman possessing that kind of power was intimidating because it put a woman in a position of authority, deviating from the expectations of the gender roles of the
There was much superstition and ignorance in the 17th century England and hundreds of women were wrongly accused and punished. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe and England. Most supposed witches were usually poor old women. Women who weren’t lucky enough to look beautiful. Any woman who was ‘crone-like’ with broken irregular teeth , sunken cheeks and a hairy lip was assumed to be a witch !
In doing so, the court believed this and she was found guilty of witchcraft. She was put to jail and is now serving a sentence. Rebecca Nurse is not the only character who was judged unfairly in this play. In my lifetime, I have been judged unfairly many times.
In today’s society you are innocent until proven guilty. Could you imagine it being the other way around? Many people were wrongly accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. But who really started it all? Abigail Williams is most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria because she is a liar and often manipulated others in order to save herself from trouble.
While reading the story you view many different examples of betrayal that were done during the times of the witch trial. For instance in Act 1 of The Crucible we read about Abigail telling Reverend Hale that Tituba made
Abigail Williams’ Influence Is it okay for a person to lie and hurt other people just to keep him or herself safe? In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, Abigail Williams lies, a lot, to keep herself safe. Throughout the story, many people are accused of witchcraft. When a person is accused of witchcraft, it is very easy for them to get out of the accusation if they lie. The lies that are told shifts the belief of who knows witchcraft, and Abigail Williams uses those lies to gain influence over other people.
The Wicked Witches of Oz correspond to the major corporations during the election of 1896. The Wicked Witch of the East is the ruler of the eastern land of Oz. She is the equivalent to the real worlds banks. Because of her wickedness a house was dropped on her leaving “her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.” (Baum).
This is cruel because a lot of innocent people were hung for witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trial is what it is called now in history. Everybody suffered due to it and the town fell apart. Everybody trusted nobody, they all did not like the justice system for what they were doing, and loving family members were lost due to this monstrosity. This could be used as an example of how fear can lead to brutality and ruin
Although some believe Elphaba is a depraved witch, the musical Wicked tells a different story. The school bully deprecated little Johnny.
“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you,” (Act I, 160). She was the first person in the play to accuse a person of seeing people summon spirits of the Devil. This caused a massive, wide-scale witch hunt to take place; families torn apart, mothers, fathers, and even children murdered for what was considered to be the greater good. Now, others began to accuse people of witchcraft and people who had been lifelong friends to each other now had no choice other than to point fingers at each other or be put to death. Widespread panic and unreasonable action was sweeping through everyone in Salem, all because of a little lie by
With the November 13th attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded 368, Americans are now asking themselves two things; what is the risk of an attack happening on U.S. soil and what may be done to stop such an immediate and imposing threat? The origins of such a group ready to carry out such attacks in modern day can be directly traced to Al Qaeda, whose story began in 1979 with the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Abdullah Azzam, Al Qaeda’s founder, became a disciple of the Muslim brotherhood shortly after his family fled the West Bank following the Israeli victory in the Six Day War. The Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian began studying the works of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb in regions such as Syria and Egypt, then re-teaching
She accuses all of the wives in the village basically, she also shouts names of random people and says that they are capable of witchcraft. Need I remind you that these are innocent women that she is putting all of the blame on, but for what? To save herself, if she as innocent as she claims to be then there should be no need for cover ups. She also lied about Mary Warren being a bird that was apparently attacking her and the girls. She was a very manipulative girl throughout the whole trial, she accused many and lied about a lot.
With everything we know about both rationalization and McDonaldization, we have to ask the question is rationalization a necessity in a creative industry in today 's society? The answer has to be yes, rationalization is very important for any creative industry but, not necessarily good for the people. Rationalization’s method of overcoming family values and focusing on the practicality is a necessity for any creative industry in terms of mass production. Back in the 19th and early 20th century, it was sufficient for people to travel by horse or horse and cart, to create/make or build items such as clothing and furniture etc. but as society grew at a rapid pace between the 1900 to present day things had to change.
However, records from the Salem trials show that her original convicted crime was not witchcraft, but having an “independence of mind”, and being an “unsubmissive character”. She was “…indicted for the bewitching of certain persons” and blamed for a smallpox outbreak that she had ‘caused’ by
