Mary Warren Guilt

Accused witches were forced to admit to various practices believed to be witchcraft. Details from the French Court of Rieux and the insanity that ensued are jaw dropping by today’s standards. Suzanne Gaudry’s judgement confession was no different, being forced and tortured into confessions including having given herself to the devil, renouncement of God, lent and Baptism. Moreover, Gaudry was also forced to confess that she had cohabited with the devil as well received the devil’s mark on her shoulder and being at dances. Of note however, the judgement confession seems to acknowledge Gaudry having technically only confessed to having had killed by poison, Philip Coine’s horse. Nevertheless, Gaudry’s confession was made

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.

No antibiotics and you had a good chance of dying if you had surgery. This is what it is like when they found Mary Mallon as a Typhoid Carrier, that when someone was infected with had a 1 in 5 chance of dying. Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti brings the reader through the lifestyle of Mary Mallon, a typhoid carrier, and how it changes her forever in the book Terrible Typhoid Mary. The Irish Immigrant Mary Mallon, a cook is found a typhoid carrier, she does not believe it and tries to run away. She is then forced into quarantine and to give urine,blood, and feces samples. Mary Mallon is found a victim of being a Typhoid Carrier. This is shown by her rights being violated,

Once she was released from jail, she started to aggressively accusing others of witchcraft. There were numerous cases that she had participated in, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, George Jacobs Sr., Mary Toothaker, Alice Parker and many more. Of all of those that she had accused, only eight were hung; one was tortured to death; one died in jail, and the rest were either found not guilty, pardoned or had escaped from jail. When Alice Parker was on trial, Mary had accused her of bewitching her mother and sister, Elizabeth, who was both deaf and

Mary Surratt is guilty and should’ve been executed. There are many reasons why Mary Surratt is guilty and should’ve been executed.

Mary Surratt should have been executed . She should have been executed because she lied about knowing people .

Mary Surratt was the first woman in the United States of America to be executed by the Federal Government. She was executed because she was found guilty of conspiring to kill President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Steward. Evidence that proves Mary Surratt was guilty includes that she denied knowing Lewis Powell, she had close ties with John Wilkes Booth, and an associate of the Surratt family, Lewis J. Weichmann, who testified against Mary Surratt. One reason Mary Surratt was guilty is because she denied knowing Lewis Powell, even though she had met him many times before.

These trials ceased when governor’s wife was questioned for possibly being involved in witchcraft. Following the false accusations involving the governor’s wife, many of the falsely accused witches were released from jail, although, sadly, many had already been

Throughout the history of witchcraft it has been hard to establish if any of these accusations on ‘witches ' were actually true due to lack of records and proof, although it now seems certain that the vast majority of women incited were innocent. In the book "The Bewitching of Anne Gunter" we can see how these allegations can be completely fabricated for personal gain and revenge.

Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal status of abortion stands on a concrete understanding and realization of an individual’s personhood. Now Mary Anne Warren’s unyielding argument on the basis of personhood is that, “If we assume that an entity is a person just because it happens to belong to our favored biological classification, we stand convicted of speciesism, close cousin to racism. There are properties that do qualify an entity as a person, but simply being human is not one of them” (124). To first be able to argue why the abortion of a fetus is permissible she needs to give a clear distinction of what can be established a decisive factor of personhood. To distinguish a line between a fetus and a human and if abortion is to be morally permissible there needs to be an understanding of when this cut off between the two officially happens. In an example of the potential personhood and a right to life Mary Ann Warren uses a hypothetical scenario of a space explorer who lands on an unknown plant. While on this plant he encounters a race of aliens. Now since he is on another plant in the presence of these alien beings how should he act towards these beings. He must first determine if they have the capability of morality or if it is acceptable to consume these aliens for food. To determine if these aliens are in fact part of a moral personhood maybe he can notice works of art, forms of tools, and communication. However, even without evidence of these things they could

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.

In January 1692, when a group of juvenile girls began to display bizarre behavior, the tight-knit Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts couldn’t explain the unusual afflictions and came to a conclusion. Witches had invaded Salem. This was the beginning of a period of mass hysteria known as The Salem Witch Trials. Hundreds of people were falsely accused of witchcraft and many paid the ultimate price of death. Nineteen people were hung, one was pressed to death, and as many as thirteen more died in prison. One of the accused Elizabeth Bassett Proctor, a faithful wife and mother, endured her fictitious accusation with honor and integrity.

This explains why many individuals falsely testified against those that were being tortured and maimed so they would not be accused of being witches. “Only a few were able to withstand severe and prolonged torture without admitting to what they thought their interrogators wanted to hear. ”[4] Those who believed that real witches existed, and were an insult to God, trusted that the legal process of punishing would be assisted with divine power which would protect the innocent from accusation or prevent them from giving way under torture and making false confessions of guilt. King James put it in his Daemonologie that, “God will not permit that any innocent persons shalbe slandered with that vile defection: for then the divell would find waies anew, to calumniate the best.

A court case is an event of great importance, and most trails ultimately end with the person or concept on trail being condemned to be guilty, or being declared innocent of the charge.Some trails take session upon session to find the truth of whether one is guilty and innocent. The longer the trail, the harder it often gets to tell between right and wrong. However, the guilt of some is painfully obvious. The deceptive girl, Abigail Williams, in Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible, shows her guilt by trying to sway John Proctor’s feelings for her, threatening her friends, and accusing so many people of witchcraft.

The late 1500s into the early 1700s were a time when witches became increasingly popular. Women accused of witchcraft were blamed for the slightest happenings that occurred in villages and towns: illness, death, infidelity, etc. Religious wrong-doers frequently blamed the witch and her spells for corrupting their mind with evil and wicked nature. It is commonly known that when a person was found to be a ‘witch’ they were taken to trial where they would have to defend themselves to the accusations brought against them. Many women were asked to recite verses from the bible as it was believed that those who sold their souls to Satan would perish if they uttered the righteous words of the Lord, God. This was a difficult task for anyone to attempt. Not many people were able to recite specific verses off the top of their head. Others who were able to recite the verses were put to other tests, one of the most