![]() ![]() The film starts off with a bunch of teenage girls partying in the woods with the minister’s ( Reverend Samuel Parris) Barbadian slave Tituba. The Crucible takes place in Salem, MA in 1692. Miller used real historical figures as the basis for the characters in his play. This play is about the Salem Witch Trials, but is in actuality written to speak out against the Anti-Communist feelings, McCarthyism, the HUAC, blacklisting actors, etc. ![]() The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller is one amazing work, and the film version really did it justice. After 1692, the religious and political conflicts in Salem Village provided the impetus for community formation and expansion in the new town of Framingham.I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! Green’s efforts to heal the parish were met with limited success because of the persistent factionalism in the community. ![]() I discuss the emigration of the Nurse, Cloyse, and Bridges families to Framingham in light of conflict over the extension of church membership through the Halfway Covenant during the Reverend Thomas Green’s tenure in Salem Village. I argue that reconciliation came only after the resignation of the Reverend Samuel Parris and the out-migration of the disaffected families to a new community. In this paper, I follow the story of a group of witch trial victims and their families to illuminate the religious and political tensions after the trials ended in 1693. The Salem witch trials have fascinated historians since the eighteenth century, but as Mary Beth Norton aptly states there is still “much of the complicated Salem story remains untold.” Previous scholarship has failed tell fully the story of the trials’ aftermath. ![]()
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