Salem Witch Trials Pt.2 (Arthur Miller)

Arthur Miller- 

Key events: 

• 1915 Born on October 17th in New York City
• 1934 Enters University of Michigan to study Journalism
• 1944 Daughter, Jane, is born.
• 1953 The Crucible premier earns the Antoinette Perry Award and Donaldson Award
• 1959 Receives the Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
• 1963 Daughter, Rebecca, is born. 
• 2003 Awarded the Jerusalem Prize.
• 2005 Dies of heart failur on February 10th.

Other Works:

• 1936 No Villain later title changed to They Too Arise then to The Grass Still Grows
• Honors at Dawn
• The Great Disobedience
• Listen My Children, You're Next

Salem Witch Trials Pt.1

1. Being accused of being a witch was terrifying. I tried arguing that I wasn't a witch! Why wouldn't they believe me? Finally, after much interrogation, I just gave in. I told them that I was indeed a witch. Anything to stop the screaming and accusations. I was sent to jail for something that wasn't at all true. But I guess they liked my "honesty" because they let me go! It was so terrifying and thankfully God had mercy through those accusers and let me live. Praise God!
2. The fact that in the Crucible Ruth's real name was after her mother, Ann could be a minor difference. A big difference is that Reverend Hale never signed a single death certificate while in the play, he had signed 17. There are multiple key people in the real event who were not even mentioned in the play including, John Indian, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, Sarah Cloyce, and Cotton Mather. Giles Corey was never executed for refusing to name a witness.
3. I think that it is a very fair assumption that this certain type of poisoning caused the hysteria that seemed to be flowing throughout Salem at this time. The ones who claimed to be bewitched described how they felt and these symptoms matched up perfectly with the symptoms that you commonly see from ergot poisoning.
4. It is very strict as well as ruthless. There is very little forgiveness given for any mistakes that you should make or even just for saying "the wrong thing".
5. Everyone went a little overboard when it came to safety. Safety is a big key word. The Red Scare was the fear of the safety from Communism while the Salem Witch Trials were called to insure the safety of the "mortal" people of Salem.
6. The biggest similarity is of course the precautions taken due to fear of the unknown. The children were kept in internment camps due strictly to the fact that americans were unsure of how involved these American citizens were with Japan.
7. This statement means that if we are unaware or careless about what has happened in history, we are much more likely to allow it to be repeated because we are unaware of the signs of possible uprisings. We learn from history by the studies of what signs give away or advertise uprisings and how they were contained. The Crucible does a good job at explaining the overall view of the events but leaves out a few key details and characters. So I would say that it does a fair to poor job of really helping the reader to understand the full history of the Salem Witch Trials.
8. Just the European witch hunts during the 15th through 17th centuries during the Renaissance usually resolved in trials similar to the Salem Witch Trials, Torture, and even the deaths of those accused.
9. The most interesting thing that I learned from this assignment would be how it felt from the perspective of the accused "witches" and being able to go through more than one scenario.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

1. Edwards wants to persuade the audience to be born again and live clean.
2. Those who sin despite their beliefs. He continues about them going to Hell soon and his audience is fundamentalist Christians.
3. To change God's mind.
4. To emphasize his point to the audience.
5. It gives multiple ways to describe the main idea. In paragraph two is another.
6. To emphasize how many criteria there are.
7. To express them as individual statements. He repeats "not willing" to that you don't matter.
8. God's wrath is always at the ready. The imagery helps us to understand the power God possesses.
9. He begins to portray God as a scary angry person.
10. Edwards uses what the audience already knows about God to support his case, ethos by putting the fear of God into the audience, and pathos by using specific words and the way that he worded his statements.
11. Edwards' tone is very serious and almost angry. He talks about how God's wrath is like a bow making us feel fear. I didn't notice a change in the mood. He seemed very serious about his reason for the speech from the very beginning
12. Text that is meant to be heard usually uses smaller and easier to understand words so that the audience isn't lost during your speech. Text that is meant to be read often has larger more difficult words.
13. The text is persuasive by his use of specific reasons based off of the fundamentalist beliefs that make the audience understand where he is coming from.
14. I believe that it would be the parts where he portrays God as scary which a lot of the audience isn't used to. It may have been because he had convinced the audience that they were all inevitably doomed to Hell.

Bio

My name is Elijah. I enjoy going to the golfing ranges, basketball, and The University of North Carolina. My favorite colors are blue, orange, and my guilty favorite purple. I plan on going to college to become a physician but my mind isn't completely closed. I enjoy math but I am not big on English.  Maybe it is due to not having the proper learning experience or I just don't enjoy the topic. I'm polite and for the most part I keep to myself during school but I am always up for meeting new diverse people.

Theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" through symbolism.

The theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that in the time period, speaking out as a woman was seen as crazy and wrong and that women need to break that pattern and break free from the control of a male driven society. This theme is shown through a lot of symbolism throughout the story. The narrator's use of imagery of a woman trying to escape the bounding wallpaper represents women's role in that time period as quiet, respectful, obedient housewives who, if out spoken, are considered crazy for it. Once the war began, women began working in places commonly thought of as a man's job as a part of the war effort and when the men came back, they came back to a woman driven society which frightened them. This caused women to see how the society had been before whenever men came back and tried to change society back into the way it had been before the war. With the experience of working,  women were beginning to see more easily the way their lifes had been run by men. The wallpaper symbolizes the current societ and men keeping the woman (representing all women of the time era) caged in their view of how life should run. This is inside of an example of this same type symbolism. The narrator began to question and speek out about things that her husband felt was inappropriate and he locked her up in a room isolated from anyone who he didn't feel was appropriate for her to talk to or associate with at all. This shows complete control being in the hand of the man and the woman is almost like his puppet. She can only do what he says she can. At one point, her husband even referred to her as "little girl" which showed that he felt that he was more mature and in control of what she could and couldn't do. She later begins to develop a hatred for the wallpaper and begins to see a woman behind the wallpaper.  This showed containment and restraint. When the woman begins taking the wallpaper off of the wall, this shows the woman in the wallpaper being set free. In the grand scheme, it represented women breaking free from men. When this happens she begins to feel free as well and this causes John to feel fear and faint. I think this represented the impact that the woman's rights movement had on men. They were caught off guard because they saw it as they had their own roles as women had theirs and men never realized how much restriction was placed on the role of women in comparison to the role that men played on society. The windows in the room showed the freedom that women could tell they weren't quite able to reach, as far as they knew. Outside of the window were beautiful flowers, walkways, people, and other nature.  This all seemed very appealing to the narrator and symbolized freedom and independence for women but it was overlooked by the woman until she realized how plain and painful being trapped in the wallpaper felt. The windows were less abundant than the walls in which she was trapped. This symbolised the fact that women saw and noticed the freedom that they could feel but also that it was a lot harder to see and pursue the windows or feedom surrounded by the restrictions set by men on women or the walls.