Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature is writing about horror and romance together. One of the first known writers of this genre was Horace Walpole. He wrote the the novel The Castle of Otantro. It was created in Europe in the 1760's. It comes from Gothic architecture. Some of the main points of this kind of writing are being anti catholic, and being romantic.


Romanticism doesn't have a whole lot to do with being romantic. It may include love, but it focuses more on nature and a persons emotions. The ideas are sometimes slightly unrealistic in the writings.



Transcendentalism was a change in many writers in the mid 19th century in the Boston area. This came from the romanticism style of writing from the europen writers. It was rejecting organized religion and wanting to be free from god. One writer was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Crucible.

Act I 

Reverend Paris: middle 40's, widowed, lives in Salem. Has daughter Betty and niece Abby. 

Salem: Been around for 40 years, hard working people, and they had very strick religion

John Proctor: Farmer 30's, accuses people, he lies, has a wife Elizabeth. 

Tituba: she worked for Parris, she knew how to talk to the dead, she wasn't from Salem. 

Putnam's: All but one of their children have died. Her child is now acting possed. 

Mercy Lewis: Putnam's maid. 

Rebbecca: she was a nurse. 

-Abby, Betty, Mercy, Mary, and other girls were accused of dancing in the forest. They claim that they didn't do anything wrong but now Betty is acting like the devil has control of her. 

-Abby wants to be with Proctor but he has a wife. They have done things though. 

Reverend Hale: He is from out of town, but is brought in because he has more knowledge on witch craft. 

-Abby first decides to blame tituba of calling the devil, because she was not from Salem and didn't have their religion. 

Act II

-Elizabeth, She talks to John about him being with Abby. He denies it. 

- Mary was their worker, and when she came home john was mad because he told her not to do. She was at the court case. 

-Elizabeth doesn't think that a women can be possessed. 

- The nurse Rebbecca is charged with being a witch because she read books. 

-Mary sewed a poppet and they say that she was using it for something like voodoo, because the needle was stuck in the tummy, so Abby tried to say that Mary did that on purpose. When Mary says that she was just saving her sewing needle. 

-Proctor gets angry with Mary. 

Act III

-Giles (Elizabeth's husband) doesn't want his wife to be hung he feels like it is his fault because he was the one who said she read books. 

-Proctor once ripped a warrant

-Elizabeth climes to be pregnant

-Proctor got a bunch of people to sign something saying that they don't think some of the people accused are actually witches. 

-Mary lied about some of the things that happened in the forest. 

-They bring all of the girls into court.

-Proctor turned against Abby, saying that she would lie

-Mary said she used to faint because she though she saw spirits, so they wanted her to faint now, and she couldn't. 

-Abby than pretends that Marry is attacking her with her spirit, Mary can't believe that Abby would do this to her. 

-They bring proctor in and he says he wasn't loyal to Elizabeth, but she won't say that she believes it because that wouldn't be good to do to him, but i think she knows he did. 

Act IV

-Sarah Good, and Tituba are leaving back to titubas home.

-Since so many people are in prison there are cow's everywhere.

-Hale has been sitting talking with the prisoners, which the other guys didn't like him doing.

-Abby and Mercy ran away.

- They stole money. 

-Parris thinks he is going to be killed.

-Proctor has been locked away, so has Rebeca, and many others.

-They are going to hang Proctor. 

-Rebeca wants to be free but she won't confess because she didn't actually do anything and that would be lying. 

-He confessed, but didn't want to sign a paper. Once he signed that he wanted to keep the paper.

-He ended up getting executed

Unit 2

The first puritans that came to America mostly settled in Massachusetts. These people believed that god only chose a few to be saved, and that they could not do anything to change this. They have to listen to the people who god chose.
They had a strict set of laws they had to follow. Their leaders were the ones that came up with what was moral and what was immoral. Bestiality and homosexuality were punished by death.

This is were 19 men and women in 1692 accused of being witches were taken to Gallows Hill outside of Salem to be hung. This was only one of many ways they used to kill the "witches"

To a man named Giles Corey they placed heavy stones on his body, he lived through this for two days but than died.

May through October were the worst months in 1962. They had accused over 150 people of practicing which craft, and they put all these people in prison until they had their trial. The end of October the Governor realised the rest of the prisoners. Which was the end of the trials

Overview

This is were the pilgrims lived. The houses weren't much and you can see why the winters were so hard for them. Their houses were just made out of wood so they didn't keep much heat in them.  

 

Some Indians worshiped the sun like in the story "The Way to Rainy Mountain" her grandmother Aho worshiped the sun as a small child with her tribe. The picture shows how dressed up they were for their sun dances.

 

There are many legends in Indian culture. One of them comes from Devils Tower. It was said that there were 8 kids and the one boy started turning into a bear. The girls got scared and a tree told them to climb it and than they went up the to sky and became the stars of the big dipper. These story's are passed on from person to person. Like from Aho to her grand daughter. 

Their rituals are very important to their culture as to any. One way they celebrate things is face painting. When Teofilo died they painted his face to honor him so he would be happy and go up to the clouds and bring them rain.

 

The Native Americans didn't know what to think of the pilgrims. First they were scared of them but than they started to try and help the pilgrims out. Also they helped them out when they were all getting sick because their body's were used to the disease where they were.