The Sacrifice Literary Devices

The town was stressed and anxious. It was a bad time for the colony according to the author of the novel Salem Witchcraft by Charles Upham as he states “…they considered the machinations of the Devil – they supposing he was the cause, operating through the agency of witches, of all the torture and misery they beheld, and that, by their opposition, they were liable also to suffer from his malignancy.” Based off of this quote, the colonists believed their time of misfortune was because of the Devil and these witches which added on to

In the story “The Crucible” Abigail and her cousin are accused of being witches. IN act one it states “We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it” (Abigail Page 1). They got caught dancing and doing things they were forbidden to do. Since that day the entire town thinks of then as witches. That being said Abigail tries to make things right. Additionally in act one Abigail states “let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about a thing or I will came to you in the black of some terrible night” (Page 19). From there forward Abigail started to accuse Tituba. Tituba then confessed “He say Mr. Parris must be killed! And No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want to kill that man”. But he says, “You work for me, Tituba, and I make you free!”(Page 44).This confession and accession give’s Abigail and Betty a chance to act Innocent and accuse random people as well.

Throughout the trial in the courtroom, there was so much controversy about whether Abigail was at accountability for all the witchcraft, or if others were apart of it too. In the courtroom there was the prosecution side (witnesses; John Proctor, Mary Warren, and Hale) and defense side (witnesses; Abigail, Tituba, and Rev. Paris). The prosecution commenced with their opening statement, stating “ Hello Jury, we are charging Abigail Williams for perjury, intent, and malicious………. she confesses to lying for her own pleasure, don’t let her escape.” The defense initiated with their opening statement, stating “ Hello Jury, Abigail, 17 accused many, she may have committed perjury and malicious, however she was not the only one. This town is gullible,

Sacrifice is seen throughout the Les Miserables, because it is a prominent part of human living. Sacrifice is greater in those who have less. Hugo conveys sacrifice through the characters Jean Valjean and Fantine, showing how they sacrificed in order to gain a better life, self-forgiveness

Suddenly people seemed very paranoid and soon residents were placing blame on one another and accusing each other of witchcraft. In a fifteen month period between 1691 and 1692 nearly twelve dozen people were accused of witchcraft in or near Salem (Norton, p8).

Three centuries ago, the Puritan religion was the base of the Salem village and many townspeople strongly believed in the existence of witches and witchcraft. According to the common Puritan belief, witches were in alliance with the devil and were granted power to harm. People were blamed for illness, failed crops, to bad weather, and many other things that were evident centuries ago. Due to the belief in witchcraft villagers were, perhaps, inclined to the most improbable explanations. The Puritans held strict views, ways of living, perspectives fears, and fantasies. Many Puritan ministers used the the fear of witchcraft to scare the believers into following the church. Historians believe these strict Puritan ways of life may have brought upon the witchcraft hysteria in Salem. At the time, witches and witchcraft were a serious and viewed as a real threat; almost as real as

This relates to The Crucible. Because at the end of the act two Mary Warren blamed Abigail for getting Elizabeth charged with witchcraft. Because of the doll that was planted by Abigail, Elizabeth was unfairly judged. Everyone has listened to “innocent” Abigail claims, while judging the rest of the people unfairly.

In Rosalyn Schanzer book Witches! The Absolutely True Tale Of Disaster In Salem a story is told about a time when Salem, Massachusetts was flooded with witchcraft accusations. In 1692 Betty Parris and Abigail Williams started having mysterious fits. After a doctor examined the girls he diagnosed them with being bewitched! The people started a hunt for all witches in the new land. The first cause are the accusations, the second cause, the fits and the third cause is anger.

In Salem, the people found it necessary to use violence for getting rid of witches. The town’s people were highly suspicious of people; in order to find a suitable

In late winter and early spring of 1692, residents of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a thinly settled town of six hundred began to suffer from a strange physical and mental malady. Fits, hallucinations, temporary paralysis, and “distracted” rampages were suddeny occuring sporadically in the community. The livestock, too, seemed to suffer from the unexplainable illness. With the limited scientific and medical knowledge of the time, physicians who were consulted could only offer witchcraft as an explanation. Psychiatric disorder is used in a slightly different sense in the argument that the Witchcraft crisis was a consequence of two party factionalism in Salem Village in this account the girls are unimportant factors in the entire incident. Their behavior “served as the kind of Roschach test into which adults read their own concerns and expectations.” Possessed individuals exhibited learned behavior patterns and that words and actions varied only slightly among them. The affected women experienced an inner conflict which was explained by the ministers as a struggle between good and evil. As to the physical symptoms: the fits, trances, and paralyzed limbs, among others, Karlsen attributes them to the afflicted girls’ actual fear of witches as well as the idea that once they fell into an afflicted state they were free to express

Lastly, Abigail Williams threatened all of the girls to admit only that they were dancing in the forest, but nothing else. They knew that she had drank blood as a charm to kill John Proctors wife. The only reason for this was that she wanted John Proctor for herself, and she didn't want her uncle to find out about it. Also, she didn't want her name to be blackened in the village, seeing that she was the niece of Reverend Parris. If they found out she had drank blood, she would be convicted of witchcraft and then hanged. All of the girls began accusing women as a group after Beth woke up towards the end of Act One. They did this to keep themselves from being accused by each other, and also to draw attention to themselves. Abigail said she had seen things done by the Indians that were unspeakable. If any of them were to talk about what actually happened in the forest, she would do some of those things to them.

In the town of salem, massachusetts, there was a group of girls heading with a dark slave named tituba into the timberland forest, it was a dark curious night for them. The town’s minister, reverend parris’s daughter, betty falls, while the girls were dancing into the woods. She falls into an unmoving, unresponsive state, so now rumors pile up into the town saying betty’s incident had something to do with witchcraft. Parris, betty’s father has sent John Hale, an expert on witchcraft to determine if his daughter was indeed bewitched or not. Parris had knew all along that the girls and tituba were in the forest. Tituba starts getting accused of being the one responsible and being involved with witchcraft.

In my opinion, the author’s purpose and goals for writing this book, was to discover the beliefs and historical context that fueled the witch panic of 1692. I believe that the people in town accused others of witchcraft

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a story of great sacrifices being made for the sake of principle. There are many examples of this throughout the book made by many of the characters but some or more evident than others. In Book The First, entitled “Recalled to Life,” the most obvious sacrifice for the sake of principle was made by Dr. Manette. He is imprisoned for eighteen years in the Bastille, for no apparent reason. Another noticeable sacrifice made for the sake of principle was made in Book The Second, entitled “The Golden Thread,” also by Dr. Manette. Charles Darnay reveals the truth about himself and about his family history. He tells Dr. Manette his real identity and that he is heir to the Marquis

The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” by Rosalyn Schanzer is an informational text which incorporates character development, thus making it a work of literature. In the beginning of the novel, the townspeople of Salem Village believed that everyone who proclaimed someone was a witch was telling the truth. Whenever someone would have certain symptoms, such as fits, the feeling of pinching or other prodromes, even if they were lying about these factors, and they would accuse someone of hurting them and causing the symptoms, a belief that was then known as witchcraft, they were trusted. Although there was only spectral evidence to support these accusations, meaning that only some people could see or experience it and that it