Explore the role that grudges and personal rivalries play in the witch trial hysteria
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- Explore the role that grudges and personal rivalries play in the witch trial hysteria
- Revenge
- Abigail against Elizabeth and John
- Poweless in daily life, now have a source of power
- Abigail against Elizabeth and John
- Jealousy
- Thomas and Ann Putnam jelous of Rebecca Nurses large family
- Ann: " I am one of nine sons; the Putnam seed have peopled this province. And yet I have but one child left of eight"
- You think it God's work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!
- They use the witch trial hysteria to have Rebecca charged with the supernatural murder of their dead babies.
- Thomas and Ann Putnam jelous of Rebecca Nurses large family
- The witch trials created an opportunity for people to act on their long-held grudges
- Many of these fueds have nothing to do with the witch hysteria
- Grudges and backstabing is though to be a work of the devil and would shunned apon in such a religious community
- Witch trial hysteria has bought the functionality of a town to a halt
- Characters out to take this situation to their advantage to gain from others is considered doing the devils work
- Totally the opposite of what the community of Salem is all about
- Salem is based on a hierarchy
- Witch trails start ed by the lowest rank of the social ladder, young, unmarried girls like Abigail and Mary Warren,
- Poweless in daily life, now have a source of power
- Witch trails start ed by the lowest rank of the social ladder, young, unmarried girls like Abigail and Mary Warren,
- Empowerment
- Parris gains more authority as he blames John for his mistakes
- Revenge
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