![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Howe makes reference to this famous play with an excerpt at the beginning of the book detailing the gruesome death of Giles Corey, who was crushed to death by stones when he would not plead guilty to witch-craft, but only whispered, “More weight.” Certainly, one of the more compelling scenes from the play that did in fact happen, and is the only the recorded instance of such a horrific sanction in American History.įurthermore, the juxtaposition of Connie’s modern-day existence with Deliverance’s life in 1692 is artfully done, and flows very smoothly with the plot I enjoyed that Howe, as she explained in her postscript, took the time to recreate a historically accurate scene in Salem. The name Elizabeth Proctor is no doubt familiar if you’ve read the Crucible by Arthur Miller. So, to intertwine those two ideologies was not only surprising but served to show off the author’s knowledge of colonial America. ![]() This was interesting to me in part because witches were primarily seen by the Puritans as an affront to their faith, among other things. The parts of the books that recount the actual witch in Salem were not what I expected, and took on many aspects of the Judeo-Christian religion, with many recitations of the Lord’s Prayer peppered throughout the witch’s, whose name is Deliverance Dane, rituals. ![]()
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