Marybelle Fisher Narrative

The recent origin of this book is constricting because it has not been widely accredited by historians who study seventeenth century witch trials. Furthermore, Boynton is not an expert in this topic: her field of study in school was medicine and science, not history. In her introduction, Boynton stated her biased viewpoint that the Connecticut witch trials were much more deadly than those of Salem. This bias may have caused her to exaggerate some of the details of the witch trials and thus inaccurately portray the content she analyzes.

The feeling of exhilaration was a feeling like no other. The commotion in dancing soon lead to the girls shouting out the men they desired. My heart wanted to scream out that I loved John Proctor, but instead I whispered something to Tituba much sweeter than love. I wished death upon Elizabeth Proctor! That nasty woman has done nothing but put blush on my name.

In the late 1600s, the small town of Salem, Massachusetts was engulfed by a dark cloud of mass hysteria during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Innocent women were unjustly accused, condemned, and subjected to torturous deaths for the alleged crime of witchcraft. Amongst the chaos and fear, lived a young woman named Sarah Osborne. This narrative essay delves into the life of Sarah, exploring her experiences before and after being accused, and sheds light on the devastating consequences that arise when mass hysteria drives people to make irrational choices. Sarah Osborne, a spirited and determined young woman, lived a modest life in the close-knit community of Salem.

A baffling plague of Satan has arrived in our cursed town, and yet another girl has been convicted of witchery. Elizabeth Clarke, a young mistress, was recently accused of creating a pact with the Devil. A trial commenced last Tuesday at the Salem Town Hall with Persecutor Matthew Hopkins examining Clarke 's allegations. First accusations of her treason began with Clarke 's late lover, Reuben Taylor, whose mother was supposedly cursed by Clarke for not allowing her to be with Taylor as he lay dying.

It was only a matter of time before the townspeople’s anger and fear reached a peak, as it was “not likely to dissipate until the blood of the innocent had been spilled” (Nardo 56). Though many of the townsfolk knew that the witch outbreak was getting to be too much, no amount of regret and disbelief could reverse what damage had been done. “On June 28[,]…Rebecca Nurse” and four other women were tried for witchcraft (Nardo 64). While each of the trials were shocking in their own right, “the most remarkable of the five cases…was that of Rebecca Nurse” (Nardo 65). Oddly enough, some members of the community rallied behind Nurse and her good name, and “members of the jury found themselves agreeing with the petitioners, [so they] initially found her innocent” (Nardo 65-66).

The Salem Witch Trials was an event caused by much more than a town full of “witches”. The small town in New England in 1962 faced one of the United States’ most disastrous mass genocides. A group of ten young girls accused roughly 200 people of making deals with the devil. Many of the accused were hanged at Proctor’s Ledge by Gallows Hill, while a few died in the jails waiting for their death sentence. The accusations were based almost entirely on spectral evidence, or evidence from the supernatural.

In the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls goes dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. They are caught by Reverend Parris right in the middle of dancing. One of the girls, The Parris’s daughter Betty, falls into a deep a coma after being caught dancing with the other girls. A crowd gathers at Reverend Parris’s home while rumors of witchcraft circle the town. After having sent for Reverend Hale, the expert on witchcraft in Salem, Parris questions Abigail Williams, Parris’s niece and one of the girls caught on seen about what had taken place in the forest.

In the end, Rebecca Nurse is accused of witchcraft by Thomas Putnam’s wife for the death of her children and is hung for refusing to confess of being a

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you,” (Act I, 160). She was the first person in the play to accuse a person of seeing people summon spirits of the Devil. This caused a massive, wide-scale witch hunt to take place; families torn apart, mothers, fathers, and even children murdered for what was considered to be the greater good. Now, others began to accuse people of witchcraft and people who had been lifelong friends to each other now had no choice other than to point fingers at each other or be put to death. Widespread panic and unreasonable action was sweeping through everyone in Salem, all because of a little lie by

Betty and Mrs.Putnam exploit witchcraft and satanism to their advantage leading to the chaotic situation that occurs. Betty is the daughter of Reverend Parris. Reverend Parris contains a great deal of power over the citizens of Salem. Therefore, Betty is an important person also. Everyone in the town of Salem thinks if witchcraft can get to Reverend Parris’s daughter then it can get to anyone in the town.

Today, Your Honour we are here to exonerate the wrongfully convicted men and women of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts. Men and women were accused of witchcraft, 19 well respectable people were hung. As we know religion has no place in court, therefore eliminating the conclusion of witchcraft. Leaving us to look for other reasons and motives that appeal to human emotion such a s fear, greed and jealousy. Emotions like this led to the deaths in Salem.

I just come from the farm; the whole country’s talkin’ witchcraft! They’ll be callin’ us witches, Abby!”, affects the readers to feel that the town is in great anxiety against the witchcraft. There are so many

Mary Rowlandson, she tells the story as if it were merely a horrifying personal account, but throughout she references God and questions why this is happening which draws the reader to wonder the same yet she shows to the reader as she progresses that maybe everything isn’t as terrible as it seems, because she has God on her side and eventually when she proves herself worthy to God she will be set free. This idea is brought up many times and especially when she had an opportunity to escape and choose not to. Instead she chose to wait and be freed at a later time, because her punishment was not through in her

“The Witch—that is, the belief in her—made for a frightened people, a subdued people, a compliant people [emphasis added]” (ch. 2). In reality, there is a witch in the woods, Xan, but she could hardly be called evil. She rescues and finds a family for each infant, who, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she finds abandoned in the woods every year. This lie and the subsequent child abandonment

Mary was at the end of her rope; she was losing her husband. Although Mary had murderous intent, one of her strongest characteristics is thinking of the consequences; not for her, but for her unborn child. “As the wife of a detective, she knew quite well what the penalty would be… what were the laws about murderers with unborn children?” To make matters worse, Patrick wanted