In the literature analysis, the literary perspective is based on interpretation (themes, narrative, metaphor) and historical perspective is based on the general and comprehensible structure of the text (grammar, use of words, figure of languages).

personification

Anne Bradstreet was in most ways quite typically Puritan. Many poems reflect her struggle to accept the adversity of the Puritan colony, contrasting earthly losses with the eternal rewards of the good. In one poem, for instance, she writes of an actual event: when the family’s house burned down.

Despite her faith, Bradstreet acknowledged the problems with Puritanism. In a famous poem titled, ‘In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth’, Bradstreet attacks the Puritan belief in the inferior nature of women by singing the praises of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

The implied meaning behind the given phrase is I am forced to conceal my poetry from a critical society. Explanation: The phrase Versing, I shroud among the dynasties is a line from John Berryman’s long poem Homage to Mistress Bradstreet written in 1948–53.

Which answer best explains the consequences of the mass hysteria that took place during the Salem witch trials? Innocent people were wrongfully accused of witchcraft and put on trial.

Right before Increase’s wife was about to be accused, he brought forward a case against spectral evidence, possessed people, and confessed witches. Overall the Mathers were very affective in the Trials. They ended the use of spectral evidence, which was a major factor in the ending of the trials.

The Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, was accused of being possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. How did the witch trials come to an end? As 1692 passed into 1693, the hysteria began to lose steam.

Accusation was a big factor of what led the Salem Witch Trials. People in the town blamed others and through this it was almost impossible to have some mercy after being blamed so it was the perfect revenge. Even people who were the nicest and went to church were blamed.

The Salem witch trials and executions came about as the result of a combination of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children, all of which unfolded in a vacuum of political authority.

Six Factors that Contributed to the Salem Witch Trials, and a Personal Observation

• Factions among the Salem Village families and rivalry with nearby Salem Town.
• Fear and suspicion after a recent smallpox epidemic.
• PTSD.
• Peer pressure.
• Political instability.
• Contaminated food.

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were caused due to an economical drought in Salem Village. When the economy went down in Salem Village people lost copious amounts of their farmland, which then angered the citizens because their taxes went to Salem Town.

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What happened if an accused confessed to witchcraft? If an accused confessed to witchcraft, A confessor would tearfully throw himself or herself on the mercy of the town and court and promise repentance. This answer has been confirmed as correct and helpful.

Historically, a confession was the single best way for the court to gain a conviction and an execution for charges of witchcraft. The irony is that none of the accused Salem witches who confessed were convicted or executed but all 19 people who refused to confess were found guilty and executed.

Corey is believed to have died in the field adjacent to the prison that had held him, in what later became the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, which opened in 1801….

The Salem Witch Trials a way to suppress people from exposing the truth behind the Government. The Trials were unfair, the Government and the townspeople were corrupt, and they had stress from outer threats surrounding the village.

The witch trials. What will happen to the accused witches if they do not confess? They will be hanged. Proctor can barely believe the craze, and he tells Elizabeth that Abigail had sworn her dancing had nothing to do with witchcraft.

What do the girls do to Mary? What is her response? They pretend that her spirit is coming to get them, that she is herself doing some bewitching. Mary tells them to stop it, but when they don’t, she ends up breaking down and joining them (for her own protection).

5. If someone confessed to witchcraft, he/she was spared; if someone didn’t confess, he/she was executed. Situational irony You would think that the people that were accused of witchcraft would be the ones executed not the innocent.

In Act II of The Crucible, what is most clearly Reverend Hale’s reason for visiting the Proctors? He wants to gather information about the Proctors to make his personal evaluation of them. He wants to find evidence in order to exonerate Elizabeth from witchcraft charges.

John Proctor tells Elizabeth to go get Mary so she can confirm that the doll was a gift. Cheever finds a needle in the doll, which he takes as proof of Elizabeth’s guilt. Abigail fell on the floor screaming at dinner and pulled a needle out of her stomach, claiming that Elizabeth’s familiar spirit stabbed her.

What is Mary’s motive in giving the “poppet” to Elizabeth? She wants Elizabeth to see her as an innocent girl. She wants to make peace with Elizabeth after disobeying her.

When Elizabeth finds out from Mary that she was accused in court, however, she decides she wants John to speak with Abigail directly. She says he must tell Abigail that they will never enter into a romatic relationship again.

Hale asks Elizabeth if she believes in witches. What is her reply? If she is accused of being a witch, she cannot believe in witches. If the Bible says that witches exist, she cannot dispute the Bible.

What will delay Elizabeth’s hanging? Her pregnancy.

Mary Warren gives Elizabeth a poppet that she made while in court. Mary Warren tells Elizabeth and Proctor that thirty-nine people are in jail, and Goody Osburn will hang because she did not confess to witchcraft. Elizabeth believes that Abigail will accuse her of witchcraft and then have her executed.

Goody (or Goodwife) Osborne is one of the first women accused of witchcraft in Salem. It is believed that her name is mentioned because she was of a lower class, and therefore the girls knew the accusations against her would not be called into question.

When asked to repeat what she mumbled, Osburn claimed it was her commandments, but then couldn’t repeat them, and so Mary says that “they had her in a flat lie!”

Goody Good confessed but Goody Osburn did not confess. What action by Osburn convinced Mary Warren and the court that she was a witch (54-55)? She choked everyone in court so that they couldn’t breathe. You just studied 19 terms!