... puritan times during the Salem witch hunts. The villainous Colonel Pyncheon wrongly accused the innocent Matthew Maule of witchcraft so that the Maule land would fall into the Pyncheon family's hands. Upon his death, Maule "addressed [Colonel Pyncheon] from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy...God will give him blood to drink". The physical wrongdoing of Colonel Pyncheon against Matthew Maule was ... that she had "brought an irretrievable disgrace" for having to work. Her selfish desire to remain in the past, in the time when she would not have to soil her hands with the disgrace of a...

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... afflicted me, and almost choking me to death. But on the 26th of June 1692, Sarah Good most violently pulled me down, my head behind my chest and tied my hands together with a whale band and almost choked me to death." (Sheldon58). Historians argue that the only reason that the girls kept up the "afflicted" act was to uphold their stories ... that afterwards "the girls were shamming, that they put on a act and were not really tormented" (Alderman37). But if that were the case then there were an extraordinary number of gifted actresses that lived in Salem and Andover village. The girls t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... afflicted me, and almost choking me to death. But on the 26th of June 1692, Sarah Good most violently pulled me down, my head behind my chest and tied my hands together with a whale band and almost choked me to death." (Sheldon58). Historians argue that the only reason that the girls kept up the "afflicted" act was to uphold their stories ... that afterwards "the girls were shamming, that they put on a act and were not really tormented" (Alderman37). But if that were the case then there were an extraordinary number of gifted actresses that lived in Salem and Andover village. The girls t...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School