How Did Giles Corey Change In The Crucible

In chapter 3 I read that this took place in the Salem church. The Salem church was turned into a courtroom. The judge would always questioned Martha about her being a witch but, it seems like she will always deny she’s a witch. They asked her “why do you hurt these children” she says she doesn’t hurt them. I found this in page 52. Martha’s husband yelled saying he had evidence for the court, but people in the court were very excited so they got to loud in the court and the Danforth told him to take his seat. Giles said that Martha’s husband evidence is lies, but he couldn’t speak yet so they had to remove the man. In page 52, line 12 Corey says he has evidence but, the will not listen to his evidence. They were half caring him and he screamed

Giles Corey was an 83 year old man who always seemed as though he was in court.This character sued 33 people in his lifetime. Giles Corey was married three times and his last wife he accidentally got her accused of witchcraft and got her killed.

Giles Corey ‘More weight” This quote was said by Giles Corey from the crucible, while he was being pressed to death for not saying if he was a witch. Giles Corey was an 83 year old farmer who was accused of witchcraft. He didn't say if he was a witch or not so, his family would keep their land. Also for not saying who accused Ezekiel Cheever, he was pressed to death.

Giles Corey, a litigious, foolish old man, transitions into a man who values his integrity and his family’s well being and fortune. Giles is naïve, and once he realized his actions and questions have caused his wife Martha to be "somewhat mentioned" in court, and eventually convicted as a witch, he is mortified, “I mentioned my wife’s name once and ill burn in hell long enough for that”. Giles’ integrity is prevalent when he denies to give the accusers information despite the extreme torture he is under. While Danforth stands by his decision to sentence many people to their

One time, my younger brother went into my room and stole my phone. I confronted him about it, but he said he hadn’t seen it. The next day, I saw him playing on it and now I don’t know whether to believe him or not. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, girls in the community are scared and don’t know what to do to escape punishment from what they have done.

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible preserving one’s reputation is a major theme. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, revolving around witch trials in 1693. In the play there are two men, John Proctor and Giles Corey, whom of which both try to protect their good name and reputation. Throughout the play they portray the idea of protecting their reputations.

When the outbreak first began, Giles wanted to watch the examinations and trials of the accused witches, but his wife wanted him to have nothing to do with them. She “took the saddle from his horse and hid it” (Starkey 64) because his “life had been punctuated by lawsuits and worse” (64). When his wife Martha began to publicly question the accusations and credibility of the young girls, she herself was accused as a witch and brought in for trial. Giles Corey was brought in to testify against his wife and, being a “great blundering husband” (Starkey 75), attempted to provide as many facts to the judges as possible, not understanding the power of his words. Thinking back to when his wife denied him from witnessing the examinations, Giles started to wonder if the girl’s accusations might actually have some truth behind them. In Giles Corey v. Martha Corey, he recounts several examples of how his wife behaved in ways he could not explain. His first example was one night when she asked him to go to bed, “I told I would go to prayr. & when I went to prayer I could nott utter my desires w'th any sense, not open my mouth to speake,” (Boyer and Nissenbaum 259-260), but that once she came towards him, he was able to speak and pray

Neighbors accused neighbors of witchcraft, and the fright was mounting. (Sutter par. 4) The accused were mostly women, and to make them confess, different methods of torture were used. The confessions and trials of the accused witches were nonsense. Often, torture would continue until the victim had no choice but to confess of being a witch, and most of the confessions were forced. Trials and hangings continued and by the early autumn of 1692, doubts were developing as to how so many respectable people could be guilty. The educated elite of the colony began efforts to end the witch-hunting hysteria that had enveloped Salem. Increase Mather then published a work entitled Cases of Conscience, which argues that it were better that ten suspected witches should escape than one innocent person should be condemned. This urged the court to exclude spectral evidence. With spectral evidence not permitted, the remaining trials ended in acquittals and all the convicted and accused witches were let out of jail in May of 1693. By the time the whole witchcraft incident ended, nineteen convicted witches were hanged, at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death under rocks. About one to two hundred other people were arrested and imprisoned on witchcraft charges. The witchcraft accusations in Salem had taken the lives of at least twenty-four people.

Although Hale’s overall goal was to bring justice and protect those who were innocent, Giles Corey’s only priority was to protect his wife from being falsely convicted of being involved in witchery. Corey’s guilt is intensified when, because of his comment about his wife’s reading habits, she is accused of being a witch. Believing that his comment might lead to her ultimate demise, Giles Corey heads to the court with Nurse, Hale, and Proctor to plead his wife’s case. Once in the court, Corey attempts to bring to light the fact that greed and selfishness are the motivation for the accusations of many of those convicted of being witches. He even believes that this is the cause for his wife as well stating that “Thomas Putnam is reaching out for

During the Crucible, in the town of Salem, everybody is in fear of witchery. Lots of drama and fear has been going around about people committing witchcraft. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Proctor, is a rule breaking man who changes from being a cheater to a man who has a change of heart and wants to save people who are being falsely accused of witchery by admitting his own sins. John wasn't always a kind man, trying to do something good for the community. Before he changed, Proctor could be described as a cheater, a narcissist, and a brave man.

“Giles Corey was not executed for refusing to name a witness, as in the movie. The play is accurate: he was accused of witchcraft, and refused to enter a plea, which held up the proceedings, since the law of the time required that the accused enter a plea. He was pressed to death with stones, but the method was used to try to force him to enter a plea so that his trial could proceed. Corey probably realized that if he was tried at all, he would be executed.” (Burns 4)

“ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” - Elie Wiesel. This quote communes the struggles of the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts who were unjustly condemned of witchcraft during 1692 . They were vulnerable while they were convicted but a few people managed to speak out against this injustice -John Proctor, Martha Corey, Giles Corey and Rebecca Nurse - eventually giving up their lives for this cause. The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, tells of a forbidden affair between married man John Proctor and his servant Abigail Williams. Their liaison is eventually discovered by John’s wife, Elizabeth, leading John to call off the affair. In an endeavor to get vengeance, Abigail and other local girls attempt to place a curse on Elizabeth in an occult rite in the forest one night. When their ritual was discovered, allegations of witchcraft spread around town. When Elizabeth is convicted of being a witch, it ultimately leads John to cease the paranoia and hysteria plaguing Salem. Abigail Williams applied scare tactics in order to manipulate fear in the citizens of Salem.

As the trials go on, many more accusations are made. Giles Corey accuses Putnam of trying to get other landowners hanged for witchcraft so that he can have their land for himself. Marshall Danforth asks for a source and the person’s name. Giles says that he cannot give out the person’s name. Giles is in the court because his wife, Martha Corey had been arrested and accused of witchcraft. She gave away a pig to a man, and the pig became ill and died shortly after the pig was acquired. Francis Nurse is in the court because his wife, Rebecca Nurse was arrested too. He along with Giles continue to confront Danforth about Putnam’s doing, but Danforth responds with that they will have to put their thoughts into writing

Giles Corey is a hot-tempered farmer that lives outside of Salem. His wife, Martha Corey, was one of those accused of practicing witchcraft, and was sentenced to death, by hanging. Giles Corey was also sentenced to death by being pressed with stones for contempt of court. Giles Corey was one that had good demonstrations of good character in the story. In the story Giles pronounces “...I heard it from an honest man who heard Putman say it! The day his daughter cried out on Jacobs he said she’d given him a fair gift of land” (Miller, pg. 183), this quote shows that Corey is an honesty person. He then later states after the court asks him for a name “Why I - I cannot give you his name… you know well why not! He’ll lay in jail if i give his name.” (pg 183). This shows

Arthur miller included, “The Crucible was Giles Corey's refusal to answer his indictment for witchcraft in order to preserve his land for his sons' inheritance.”(Marino) Many of the citizens felt witchcraft was among them but had never spoke up, causing them to become suspect. Many people in the town of Salem feel guilty for not speaking up until their wives were accused. If Abigail had not tried to go after Elizabeth Proctor, the town of Salem would remain sane rather than the chaos created.