Parris tells her that he cannot reveal that he found his daughter and niece dancing in the forest like heathens. Abigail warns Parris that there are rumors of witchcraft and that the parlor is packed with people. Parris has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, who will confirm the possibility of an unnatural cause of Betty's illness, but he orders Susanna to say nothing of unnatural causes to others. Griggs can find no cure for Betty's ailment. Parris, also enters, along with Susanna Walcott, who tells Rev. She is concerned for Betty's welfare, but Parris makes her leave. Parris' slave from Barbados, enters the room.
They willingly gave up their own freedom for two reasons: The play is set in Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692, and the first act begins in a small upper bedroom of the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, who kneels in prayer at the bed of his daughter, Betty.The ancestors of Salem’s inhabitants left Europe for religious freedom they didn’t allow any of it among their own people.Persecutions for witchcraft a bit of a fad at the time in Europe.They took this literally, just like the rest of the Bible.“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” – Exodus 22:18, the King James Bible.In this type of government, violating the Ten Commandments, (for example) can get you thrown into jail.Not unknown even today: Iran, Saudi Arabia.
In most of Massachusetts, religious beliefs held the power of law.Definition: a form of government where religious authority and civil authority are the same.This colony barely registered on the radar of Europe governments there glad to be rid of “fanatics”.“Today we would hardly call it a village.”Total population no more than a few hundred people.
0 kommentar(er)
