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The Crucible-It's Madness In Salem

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It's madness in Salem. Innocent people were hanged and accused of things they didn't do. So much people are in jail and are dead. There are livestock roaming in around and children don't have their parents. The crops are dying and no one is producing food for the town and getting wood. Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Proctor, Martha Corey, Goody Osborne, Tituba and many others were accused of witchcraft. The town is full of vengeance, sin and hate. Abigail Williams who was also accused claimed she loves God and is on their side. She said she saw Goody Hawkins, Goody Booth and Goody Sibber with the Devil, she was lying and is the cause for all this madness. The town has seen through the lie but Judge Danforth realizes this too late and under the law of his court, 19 were hanged. …show more content…

It's so obvious that people are accusing others for vengeance and to get what they want. Abigail accused Elizabeth so she can be executed and she can have John Proctor.The Putnam’s accused George Jacobs because they know that George has hundreds of acres land. When a person is hanged, their land cannot be passed down and it has to be forfeited. This means that the land is ope for sale. The Putnams being the only people that can afford this amount of land, they accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft. Those who accused others were not suspected and were considered as heroes, but they actually don't want to get rid of witchcraft because it benefits them. To the viewers, the accusers were thought to be the people that cleanse the town of

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It is said that the Putnams and the Porters were having a land dispute at the time when the accusations erupted. So basically one family accused the other of which craft so that they would hang and then their family could step

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The Putnam family was one of the strongest influential forces behind the accusations. Author Anastasia Karson, described the Putnam family as “strait-laced and self righteous, the family placed themselves at the forefront of the social and political circles of the village.” They had positions as Village Committeemen, deacons, and church elders (Carlson). Their positions gave them lots of political power, which enabled them to accuse people without being doubted. The family started to abuse their power by accusing the people that they did not get along with (Wallenfeldt).

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Putnam was neighbors with the man whom his daughter accused of witchcraft. Mr. Corey’s so called “source” claimed that Mr. Putnam was using his daughter in order to steal land. Nonetheless, it would make sense for Mr. Putnam to mention his neighbors, being they are the closest to his abode and family. During these times, it is apparent that anyone can be a witch, and that includes neighbors. Thus, in mentioning names, Putnam should name neighbors as possible culprits as he should want to protect his family.

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Thomas Putnam is a greedy man who is bitter and use to getting his own way, which motivates him to falsely accuse his neighbors of witchcraft. He is a rich man who can afford to buy any land forfeited by a witch. To him the, Salem witchcraft trials, is an opportunity to get rid of his neighbors and take land away from them. He does this to a man named George

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Option D With the incline of Hysteria throughout the village of salem the so called “Virtuous Puritans” became backstabbing in some cases greedy folk who were only in it for themselves. From Putnam to Parris they were profiting trying to gain something or save themselves from trial. Putnam himself would just outlandishly accuse many villagers most likely them all innocent just to gain land for his own greed gains. As a side note to keep himself from the danger of the trials.

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Accusing Putnam shows that Corey is brave enough to accuse a powerful and influential man in the courts of trying to steal his neighbors land. Putnam has the power in Salem to have Corey accused of being a witch in court by persuading his daughter, who is one of the afflicted, to say that Corey is one of the witches tormenting the young girls in Salem. Also, Corey refused to give up the name of the man who provided him with information about Putnam’s plan to steal his

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The man was very wealthy and had feuds over his neighbor’s land. He helped to convince Abigail into accusing his neighbors of witchcraft. Thomas Putnam knew Abigail was lying and let over twenty people die in the end. The man was very corrupt and only lied to take vengeance, just like Abigail did. All Thomas Putnam wanted was his neighbor’s land, so he could get money.

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In both the story and history, accusers in Salem accused people of witchcraft and they were tried accordingly. It began with Betty Parris having unexplainable symptoms and the only explanation for them was witchcraft. Her and Abigail Williams began to accuse people of witchcraft and all of Salem gets caught up in it. Rebecca Nurse was a character in the story that really existed and was accused of witchcraft and condemned to hang. Ann Putnam’s daughter, like Mary Warren, accused people.

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Townspeople were accusing people who didn’t go to church, who didn’t seem to follow the Puritan ways exactly, or people who they disliked and wanted to get revenge on. Hundreds of innocent people

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Abigail Williams, Deputy Governor Danforth , and Thomas Putnam are responsible for the people, who were wrongly convicted and hanged. These three characters were either looking for vengeance, looking for land, or too dimwitted to realize they were being conned. Hatred was walking in salem and people took their chances accusing their witnesses of being witches to get what they wanted. Abigail Williams was a teenage girl, who reeked vengeance on Elizabeth Proctor.

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Abigail and her friends would claim that the person who was on trial was doing things to them during the trial or around their town of Salem. Most of the people who were accused were there because of either Abigail, one of her friends, or the whole group. Abigail and her friends were the only ones who really ever did witchcraft, and it was with one of the servants they knew named Tituba. The girls had done bad things with and without the witchcraft, and the worst one was Abigail. Reverend John Hale also was a big cause in the hangings.

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