... expectations. The community of Salem Village was itself disinherited. It no longer prospered as it had during the first and second generations. With the coming of cultural change during the seventeenth century it no longer embodied the values of a wider society. Its self-respect was destroyed as it was gradually stripped of social identity and moral authority (Hill, 217). Not only ... done. Finally in October of seventeen ten, the general court passed an act reversing the convictions of those for whom their families had pleaded (Hill, 205). A year later on December seventeenth, seventee...

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• Grade Level: High School

... expectations. The community of Salem Village was itself disinherited. It no longer prospered as it had during the first and second generations. With the coming of cultural change during the seventeenth century it no longer embodied the values of a wider society. Its self-respect was destroyed as it was gradually stripped of social identity and moral authority (Hill, 217). Not only ... done. Finally in October of seventeen ten, the general court passed an act reversing the convictions of those for whom their families had pleaded (Hill, 205). A year later on December seventeenth, seventee...

• Word Count: 3032
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the paranoia about communism that pervaded America in the  1950s. Several parallels exist between the House Un-American Activities Committee's rooting out of suspected communists during this time and the seventeenth-century witch-hunt that Miller depicts in The Crucible, including the narrow-mindedness, excessive zeal, and disregard for the individuals that characterize the government's effort to stamp out a perceived social ill ... ...

• Word Count: 4038
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• Grade Level: High School

... of the forty-eight possessed, mostly were females. Forty-four percent of the possessed were females between the ages of sixteen to twenty who were "single-women" or "maids" in seventeenth century terms. Another 38 percent were over twenty while 18 percent were under sixteen. Three-fourths of the non-possessed accusers whose main concern was maleficium were men. In 1711, the ... ...

• Word Count: 2567
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School