Nine-year old Elizabeth Parris and eleven years old Abigail Williams started having fits, strange behaviors and would scream with anger. A doctor looked at the girls and decided that the only explanation was spells caused by witchcraft. Despite the fact today we know it wasn’t logically true, but the town had a strong belief of the devil. Hysteria and chaos took over the town, soon enough when girls all over town decided to take part in it, and began accusing the townspeople without a reason. This is one reason why this is the worst thing that happened to America.
Pathetic fallacy is shown again from Hecate when she states, “Hark! I am call’d; my little spirit, see, sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me,” (3 . 5 . 34-35) which also has a great imagery as the reader easily imagines the fog (thus creating an evil and dark setting for the witches once again). As the witches are taking these orders form Hecate, Macbeth charges in and exclaims, “How now, you secret black and midnight hags!” (4 .
Content The picture is about a woman holding her dead child the woman is seated, cross-legged and naked and she is covering a body of a child. We can see the women’s facial expression and emotion slightly but the body that is pushed against her covers most of her expressions. We can see form some of her face that she is very upset as she has her eyebrows very highly raised which shows her very unstable situation and feelings. Her body language also expresses this very unstable mood that is set. She is completely wrapped around her dead child and her muscular hands look like that she is pulling her dad son even closer towards her showing the grief that she has and sowing that she is extremely desolate at the death of her child.
This article informs the reader about the different cases of accused mothers abusing their child for attention. At Sierra Vista Arizona in 2002 a mother named Kelley Savage suffers from Münchausen by proxy. The article states that her child's first incident started at one week old and she continued to poison her child, at the age of two years old the healthy born child had feeding tubes. A suspicious pediatric doctor from Fort Worth's children hospital placed the child in one of the rooms that was under surveillance. The mother was found tampering with the child's feeding tube, trapping air bubbles in the feeding tube line making the child sicker.
Now from those brief descriptions we can already see the difference in the characterization of all three characters. Although Abigail’s character appears to be one that is instantly dislikeable because of her selfish ways, she is by no means stupid. She knows how to manipulate other people into acting the way that she wants them to act and her control over them is what makes her an effective antagonist. Mrs. Putnam on the other hand appears not to have been as well educated as Abigail. She instantly jumps to the conclusion that witchcraft is afoot, which is apparent when she states “Mark it for a sign, mark it!” when Betty thrashes in her “trance.” She is also paranoid by the fact that there must be some paranormal reason as to why her babies have perished.
By living with other women in the camps, Sara saw a lot of families on the verge of splitting, “she wanted to die with her mother. They tore her from her mother by force” (Nomberg-Przytyk 34). Death was an everyday occurrence within the camps, after a while people got used to seeing dead bodies, felt that they were next. With the number of deaths racking each day, others were pregnant and delivered their babies within the camps of the holocaust. Since Sara worked within the hospital of the camp she witnessed the birth of a baby who should have been born dead.
This part of the poem shows that women really do suffer the loss of a baby and that sometimes some women wish they could take back what they have done. The woman who wrote this poem expressed that she felt like she had created an empty hole by choosing to abort her innocent child. In March of 2002, a retired nurse who had witnessed two full term abortions participated in an interview given by Scott Johnston. The nurse was unsure of what she was in for; she just did as she was told which was to go to the delivery room. For both of the abortions that she had witnessed, her job was to hold the baby in order to keep it in the birth canal.
Hysteria in Salem In 1692, in Salem Massachusetts, the superstition of witches existed in a society of strong Christian beliefs. Anybody who acted out of the ordinary was accused of being a witch and the accused would actually be forgiven if they blamed their accusations on another individual. In this play, a group of young girls is accused of being witches. These girls then blame other people in order to get out of trouble and even pretend to be "bewitched" in front of the court during a trial. This leads into the deaths of the innocent people who are accused and automatically found guilty.
When she was fourteen, her mother had passed away, which left Mabel heartbroken and depressed. After her father passed away the family was left with a horrible debt. It was all of these events that lead to her deep depression. Mabel realized that she had only one place left to go, to her mother. "Mindless and persistent, she seemed is a sort of ecstasy to coming near to her fulfillment, her own glorification, approaching her dead mother, who was glorified" (Lawrence 2263).
Emily in my eyes looks like a poor sad woman that had been crying. Her cheek bones sunken in from lack of eating and nourishment; she looked like a very unstable person. I believe this story, in the argumentative purpose, is to inform and possibly help the audience make decisions. The argument is in a deliberative form. The mother, whom is the narrator, is focusing on the how she treated her daughter and the way she was raised and looking how it has affected her in her teenager and adult life.