Starkey points out that none of these women attend church. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne claim to be innocent of any witchcraft all the way up until when they were hanged. When Tituba is on trial she explains that the devil made her do it, and that Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and the three others where involved. Two others are accused of being witches; Martha and her husband Giles. When the trials began, many accused others of witchcraft and this lead to them accusing even more.
Of these over 178 citizens three out of four were female, which made this witch hunt a gender issue (Davidson & Lytle 42). It was evident during the Salem Witch Trials that more and more females were being targeted as opposed to males. The female population was being targeted on the grounds that society had deemed them inferior to the male population of colonial Massachusetts and thus they were easy targets for citizens to accuse them of performing witchcraft. In the society of Massachusetts the female was thought of as “partners and helpmates in marriage.” A marred wife was not allowed to buy land, sell land, sue, or make contracts(Davidson & Lytle 43). Rights for widowed females were also horrendous, if they were left a plot of land she was required to “have and enjoy” that plot of land “during term of her natural life (Davidson & Lytle 43).” This also meant that the widow was not allowed to misuse the land because the land would be passed onto future generations.
The Crucible In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, many Puritans were in a state of constant fear from the unforgettable Salem witch trials. Although there has been no full records of these trials, historians have been able to piece together what may have happened and who may have been to blame. From reading The Crucible, I have been able to say that Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Betty Parris have been to blame for the deaths of those innocent Puritans who died during the witch hunt. Abigail Williams was definitely a big instigator in the trials and probably the one who deserves the most blame. She was the so called, "Leader of the pack".
Reverend John Hale “The Crucible” is a tale of witches, death, greed, lies and infidelity. In “The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller, it plays out the events of the witch hunt trials in Salem, Massachusetts, during the spring of 1692. Led by seventeen-year-old Abigail Williams, a group of young girls claim to have been bewitched by members of the town. With only the testament of the “afflicted” girls, people are accused and forced to either confess to witchcraft or be hanged. By the time it is all over, countless numbers of people are accused and nineteen men, women, and children, are hanged.
This was added to the so-called evidence against the accused, and often was the settling argument in their demise. A total of one hundred seventy-five people were accused. Out of the one hundred seventy-five, nineteen were hanged, one of which was a man. The Salem Witch Trials are, to this day, a famous tale of the way communities can fail as a result of superstitions. Three hundred years later, no one really can say what in heaven (or hell) possessed the 'witches' of Salem--or their accusers In witchcraft's colorful lore, one episode stands out in black and white.
The injustice of the Salem Witch Trials remains in American history forever. The terrible incidents of the trials played out because of personal insecurites, jealousies and teenage boredom. As the event took course and grew to an epedemic, the Town of Salem was uprooted and taken by storm. Through harassment, men and women of Salem were in driven into the witchcraft craze of 1692. The absence of a fair and honest trial for the prosecuted in the small Protestant town is thought to be approached in a different manner today.
Who’s to blame in the Salem witch trials? Deep inside a town in Massachusetts, innocent people were accused of the devil’s work. Twenty-five people dead, an entire village on the brink of insanity, and a gathering of young girls possessed by demons defined the year 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. What began as a childish game metamorphosed itself into mass hysteria. A combination of irresponsibility and village politics led to the demise of innocence.
Abigail Williams, the silent devil of Salem who destroyed the lives of many. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Abigail Williams was a main source for the cause of the Salem witch trials for many reasons such as, her false accusations, her thirst for power, and she had a good reputation which made the town believe her every word. Abigail Williams falsely accusations was one of the main causes of the Witch Trials in the Crucible. “HALE: Why can she not wake?
The Salem Witch Trials Brittany Johnson Marc Romanelli Monday April 8, 2013 The Salem Witch Trials (Rough Draft) Fear of Devil-worshipping and witchcraft swept through Salem, Massachusetts, like a plague. During the years of 1692 and 1693, more than 200 people—men, women, and even children—were accused of witchcraft (Blumberg). Words of friends, neighbors, and even complete strangers put many people's lives in danger. Nineteen people were hanged, one person pressed to death, and four known deaths occurred in prison. The accusations, the trials, the executions, and the events leading up to and after the deaths, kept Salem, Massachusetts on its toes in
In our modern-day society witchcraft, while not mainstream, is considered a type of religion. However, in Salem 1692, when three young girls accused two older white women and Tituba, a West Indian slave of bewitching them, a crazed panic rumbled through the town. A mob mentality ensued an in the end twenty so called “witches” were hanged. Several of the accused women were single, middle-aged women who did not follow the traditional Puritan role of