Mary Warren Accused Of Heresy In Court

“They must be; they are weighted with authority” (Miller36) Reverend Hale makes a conclusion that Betty’s sickness is unnatural. Later he hears that other family’s children are in a similar state as Betty. Reverend Hale understands he is dealing with a sort of witchcraft. Many of the girls are in danger of this witchcraft he assumes and proceeds to come to different conclusions. ”I cannot tell. If she is truly in the Devil’s grip we may have to rip and tear to get her free” (Miller39) Then soon after when the girls awaken they proceed to make different accusations. Everyone accused by the girls is brought to court and charged with being a witch. Some confess to being a witch which contributes to the hysteria.

Mary Warren’s behavior foreshadow about her testimony in court by giving Elizabeth a doll she made, “a popper,” which later leads to her arrest. They found a needle inside the doll, in the same spot Abigail was stabbed in. She seems to be manipulated by Abigail, due to the fact that she feared to have to testify against her in court. “She’ll kill me for sayin’ that! Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” Mary kept saying over and over again that she cannot, which also indicates that she knows that Abigail will do something terrible to her.

Tensions rose between young women and girls(Accusers/Afflicted) and older women who showed signs of deviance(Accused witches). In a single year, one hundred and fifteen local people were accused of witchcraft, and twenty were executed. The ordeal was a “role reversal of unique dimensions”(43). The “afflicted” girls were able to exert control over everyone else - as a means to outlet aggression. Young women were the weakest community members and they felt powerless. By accusing older women, some widows who held more power and challenged the male dominated pattern of land ownership, the younger women were able to exert life-and-death power over the

All the horrified villagers and upperclassmen saw the witches in action they saw the monstrous effect that black magic was apparently having on poor little child Abigail and twelve year old Ann Putnam Jr., a spell bounded choreography of outburst and spasms. “Look to her! She will have a fit presently,” one girl would cry out, pointing to another, who would promptly commence convulsing. “At other times they warned, ‘We shall all fall!’ and about seven girls would pass out, babbling to the floor. The head of the courtroom on that day was Thomas Danforth, deputy governor of Massachusetts and Harvard’s longtime treasurer, one of the several senior colonial officials . Betty's father called in more authorities to decide if witchcraft was the reason for the girl’s illness. Seeing that nothing was working not the praying or the vigils nor the sermons. Reverend decided to call in the doctors. Being puritan they did not believe in science but there were no options left. Betty was sent away, and did not participate in the trials; the other girls were joined by other young women in staging publicly putting on displays of their distress when in the presence of accused

In a town called Salem, Massachusetts a group of girls go dancing in the woods performing witchcraft and get caught by Reverend Parris. The girls told lies and started rumors to try and cover up themselves so they wouldn’t get in trouble. The rumor of John Proctor being a witch, the

Most of the court believe Mary and her friends even though they know they were lying. The had the guard arrest John and put him into the dungeon. He was in the dungeon for the months and while he was in the dungeon Reverend Hale was try to convince him to tell the court he was with the devil. So John could go home to his family. John would not listen and refused to tell a lie. The court decided that John wife Elizabeth should try to convince him to say he was with the devil. They called his wife out of jail and told her the plan. At first she didn’t not want to do it, but told the court she would try. If John didn't say he was with the devil, he would hang that day. They got John out of the dungeon and he saw his wife. It was a bittersweet moment for the both of them. Elizabeth told him of what happen to friends after he was gone. She also told him of how some are confessing to witchery. John thought and ask her want her thoughts were if he confessed to it. Elizabeth kept say I can not judge you john, he should choose for himself. He ended

When everyone was in the court abigail decides to lie and make false claims in front of the judge. Abigail was pretending that Mary was a witch by saying and pretending that Mary sending out her spirit. Abigail was making this believable because she was acting and all the other girls were following. This acting was done in front of the judge so that he would believe that mary was a witch. She used this as evidence and everyone was believing her. “Why do you come yellow bird” Abigail said with fear this bird was not real but the other girls were pretending as well as abigail and they made it seem real so the judge would believe them. Mary gets falsely accused of witchcraft and she is then to be thought of as a witch by the others and later is killed for her actions. Abigail had her chance to confess that she was pretending but she

Mary Anne Warren argues in the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s argument in invalid since the claims of argument cannot be proven.

Rebecca Nurse was a suspect during the Salem Witch Trials. A minister said, “You are a witch. You know you are a witch,” to Rebecca. Rebecca answered, “You are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink.” This proves that once a victim is condemned, it is almost impossible to prove them

If witchcraft is discovered in the Reverend's own home, it can very quickly ruin his reputation. Parris is worried “they will howl [him] out of Salem for such corruption in [his] house”(14). The Reverend is the one preaching God and against witchcraft. If the Devil is found in the Reverend's home, his reputation will be destroyed and he will probably have to leave town. The reverend will be seen as corrupt. Betty is aware of this, but does not change the way she is acting. Betty’s act causes her father to act with . He is supposed to be a calm and a role model. Quaking with fear, mumbling to himself through sobs, he goes to the bed and gently takes Betty’s hand. Betty. Child. Dear Child. Will you wake…” (8). Daughters typically do as their fathers say, but Betty is ignoring her father’s begging. She is able to make her father, the village’s Reverend, cry for his young daughter to do as he says. In a way, Betty causes Parris to lose his ‘masculinity’. During this time, women are the ones thought of to be hysterical and men are supposed to show little emotion, especially strong sadness. Now, the reverend is hysterically crying and repeatedly asking his daughter to wake up. Betty is controlling her father’s emotions and his job. If Betty seems to be working with the Devil, it can force a witch hunt to occur in the town. Reverend Parris wants to stop this from happening. She is in control of whether or not she wakes up and stops the witch hunt. If Betty was to wake, the whole situation would be over. Since she is not, Hale asks Tituba, Abigail, and Betty to “give [them] all their names,” (47). The religious leaders are seeking information from people who are typically of low power. Tituba and the girls start to name ‘witches’ in Salem, which is going to force Parris and the other authoritative figures to make accusations. Betty, regardless of her power status before, now

Reverend Parris’ fear of losing his job provokes him to cry witch. Reverend Parris’ daughter feigns to be in a coma. When the doctor bade Susanna tell Reverend Parris that he “might look to unnatural things for the cause of it” (9), he denies that possibility because he fears that rumors of witchcraft under his roof would help his “many enemies” (10) to drive him from his

Your honor, today, it has been brought to my attention that Martha Carrier and her bewitched spirit has caused violence towards the witnesses’ lives in this vehement environment. Apparently the specter are “ruining” their lives, but if she really was, why are those victims still here? Wouldn’t they be dead by now from the revenge of her accusations if Martha was truly a witch? Her innocence is my responsibility and I will gladly guide you through their erroneous assumptions.

This was how the Witch Trials became so large. “The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692” (Nick T. 1). What is ironic, in my opinion, is that the accusations began by three young girls. Why anyone would take accusations of this sort seriously, is incomprehensible. However, these girls, “screamed, threw things, uttered peculiar sounds and contorted themselves into strange positions” (Nick T. 2). Of course, it did not help matters when, “the local doctor blamed the supernatural and proclaimed that the community had a witch in its midst” (Nick T. 2). A diagnosis of this sort, today, would be a laughing matter. However, to the Puritans, this was very serious. These girls accused many women and even a few men of being witches. Hawthorne’s great grandpa, Judge John Hathorne, played a major role in the trials. Just as Brown has a dream or vision, Judge Hathorne allowed these dreams as real evidence against the accused. Imagine brown accusing his whole community and his own wife of witch craft. They would have all been hung, based on his “spectral evidence.” “Many of the

Imagine that you were a resident living in Salem Village in 1692. Everything was good in your life, and everyday you were doing same rituals. Cooking food, looking your children, working on the farm, reading the Bible, and attending to the church. Lately, everyone was whispering about the paranormal events that were happening the villagers’ daughters, but nobody knew what was happening to the girls. You were afraid of the supernatural because your religion taught you; it was something that would hurt you. Then, the most frightening theory came out: the magic. You were afraid of a witch like every villager because if it was real, the witch could harm you or your family. One day, you woke up and there were some people in front of your door and accusing you that you were a witch. They took you in jail because the girls pointed you as a witch. You did not know why the girls accused you or why your neighbors believed them because they knew you in a long time. You spent a long time in the dark and frigid jail. While they were examining you, the girls were screaming and wriggling crazy. They accused you for suffering the girls and wanted you to stop hurting the girls. If you did not have an idea about their insane actions how you could stop it. The jury gave you two choices: Confession or execution. If you confess, they would not kill you, but you would accept that you were a witch and you would not be able to change people’s viewpoint of you. If you kept saying that you were not a

The witch is the inversion of the good mother that preserves the fantasy of the good mother. Dr Sarah F. Williams in her Damnable Practises points