Far from Tolerance: The Causes of the Salem Witch Trials On March 24, 1692, Rebecca Nurse, an elderly woman and respected member of Salem Village, was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft (Rosenthal Document 23). She was accused based solely on the testimony of four young girls who claimed that the apparition of Rebecca Nurse had severely harmed them. Many witnesses testified in favor of her, but ultimately the "afflicted girls" prevailed. Nurse was executed on July 19, 1692 (Godbeer 185). She
to late nineteenth century literature. The mid- Victorian femme fatale is difficult to define or stereotype, she is a lot more complex and has many different sides to her than the vampires or she-devils characterised by late 19th century novelists. (Hedgecock, 2008) She is not a dangerous, treacherous woman and would rarely commit murder to get what she desires. In ‘The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature: The Danger and Sexual Threat’ 2008, Jennifer Hedgecock examines how the dire socioeconomic class
In Old-Slavic folk tales, for example, the skin, eyes and teeth of witches, devils and mermaid were red. Red hair is often associated with hot temper and in Medieval Europe was considered to be a sign of witches. Hats of fairies are traditionally red. The red color acts as a guardian. Thus, for example, mothers tied a red thread
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange