The Heretic 's Daughter By Kathleen Kent

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.

While spring is a time for growth, newlife, and awakening, in the spring of 1692 a rotten presence (both figuratively and literally) swept over Salem Village, Massachusetts when a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. Not only was this the spark of a religious uproar in the quaint, puritan town; but a spark that lit the match which eventually convicted over a hundred innocent people and claimed 20 lives. While the true pain of these trials cannot be seen in photographs or videos, it can be experienced through the words that have been written. In Marilynne Roach’s novel, “Six Women of Salem”, she tells the untold story of six women who underwent the grueling Salem witchcraft trials, and she evoked a strong sense of empathy for the victims through her use of first person narratives and factual evidence. Through these devices Roach successfully highlighted the twisted, prejudice, and uneducated society that America was, and, in some ways, still is today.

Mary Warren, a young woman living in Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials, shows no exception to differing viewpoints. Throughout The Crucible, in which Mary Warren is a character, the very children whom the town considers holy, appear also to perpetrate the vicious crime of murder through false allegations of witchcraft. Unable to recognize the children’s crime because of their innocent appearance, citizens of Salem conduct dozens of

This is a book broken into chapters with 376 pages. This novel discusses the people and events that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. The author, Emerson Baker, does this by taking a large number of primary documents, scholarly interpretation, and speculations from the centuries that surround the trials. Baker examines the trials inside the 1600 time period, he then places the trials into the bigger picture of American history

The Salem Witch Trials was an uncanny and eerie event of hearings and prosecutions of people being accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Although it lasted from 1691 to 1692, it lead to more than 200 people, including men and women, being accused and arrested of witchcraft and 20 of those people executed. The hysteria began with two young girls: Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams claiming to be possessed by the devil, causing the “witch-fever” among the Salem village. In this essay the circumstances behind poor harvest, sickness and the conjecture of witches and witchcraft being highly considered as a cause in this era will be described. The Salem Witch Trials were caused by environmental factors because the Salem community had limited understanding of natural causes such as poor harvest, sickness and diseases.

Devastation come in all shapes and forms. Whether it is a hurricane that has destroyed a whole city or a plague that’s whipped out a whole country. In today’s society, we are able to track a hurricane and evacuate all nearby populaces before it arrives and a plague is highly unlikely due to our modern medicines, many different vaccines that have been and still are being created. However, in Salem Massachusetts, a devastation occurred that was unprecedented. It was not a hurricane or even a plague that had killed innocent people, but a group of girls. Could this have been prevented and lives saved? This paper will discuss the events that occurred in Salem in 1692 and the impact it had on the community.

hysteria in Salem. Author, Lyle Koehler summarizes the trials were the search for power by the

In, “Six Women of Salem” by, Marilynne K. Roach she does three major things that make her book extraordinary. First, her interesting style of writing skillfully strengthens the envelope of time in the book. Second, Roach masterfully answers any questions the reader or I may have or had about these Witch Trails. Third, K. Roach successfully illustrates to her readers the story of these horrid trials. In the stories of the six women, Roach helps us grasp events of the trials in the conditions

The central issue at stake for people during the Salem witch trials were a series of hearing and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. It all started in Salem Village, in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. A man by the name of Richard Godbeer, the author of “The Salem Witch Hunt” and several other books is a professor at the University of Miami. Godbeer’s research and teaching interests center on colonial and revolutionary America. Also, his fields of interest are in gender, sex, witchcraft and religious culture.

In the play the crucible , there is a village in massachusetts called salem The time era that this play occurred was 1692-1693 . In this village insane events are taking place like little girls passing out while dancing around in a circle in the woods.Which we now know today that it was caused by a fungi that grew on rye called ergot. There was a group of girls that would accuse the poor people in the town of witchcraft simply because they loved the attention. The authors purpose of writing this story is to inform readers about what went on in the village of salem.

In the book “In the Devils Snare: The Salem Witch Trials” by Mary Beth Norton, it starts by giving details of what was occurring in Massachusetts before the accusations and trials began. Norton starts off by describing the First and Second Indian Wars and how it affected the colony of Massachusetts when 150 Wabanaki Indians burn and rob the whole town of York, killing 50 and capturing over 100 townspeople. Mary Beth Norton than begins to write about the town of Salem, describing the first of many “fits” the town’s pastor Samuel Parris’ niece Abigail, and many other accusers would have, in the accusations of so-called witches also called specters. Young girls in the town of Salem began having strange fits described as falling on

In the novel, “The Daughter of a Commandment” by Alexander Pusking, social classes play an important role in Russia. The author demonstrates, that social class played an important part on political leaders and the society. Pyort through, his involvement in war through battling in the military and courage to overcome obstacles.Pusking emphasizes the leadership through overcoming political leaders. Pugachev demonstrated through his actions that this was a nostalgic era of Tsarist Russia and the struggle with establishing social classes and equality in the social classes.

Through 1961-1962 the people of Salem were going crazy over evil in their town. Presence of the devil was fully alive in their town after a few girls started framing others of doing witchcraft and seeing others within their dreams. Court systems were taking people’s lives, and being unfair. Puritans were not living the holiest life they could live. The whole town was in chaos over a couple of little girls.

Satan’s daughter is all grown up and she wants to start making a life of her own.

This dramatization of a true story deals with one of the most troubling episodes in early American history, the "witch hysteria" that convulsed the village of Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1690s. The historical basis for this drama is the fact that early in the 1700s the colonial government offered to pay reparations to the survivors of those who had been killed, but only if their relatives could somehow prove that the deceased were not in fact witches. The film is a powerful, movie story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft. This is a true story based on transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials. In the town everyone was very religious and they believe a lot in God. They go like to church and they read Gods lecture. Sarah and her two sisters are put on trial for suspicion of witchcraft. While her sisters are burned at the stake, Sarah is sentenced to a prison term to be served in a box barely large enough for her to lie down in. She is in a house where there are other that are accused of other things, and they can’t go out. They treat them very badly. Sarah didn’t did anything to the girls, before the girls get the witchcraft thing she was sick and she didn’t get out of her house. Abby Williams, the preacher's niece, starts getting into fortune telling and such illegal activities, as taught to her by the slave Tituba. Other local girls get into it, and then start acting strange they shout, cry and make weird noises. Abby and the girls