Gothic Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism

- Gothic Literature -

- Gothic Literature combines both horror and romance.

- Popular during the end o the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.

- Romanticism -

- A movement in art and literature in the late 18th century into the

early 19th century.

- Celebrated nature rather than civilization

- Transcendentalism -

- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas that came to New England in the early 19th

century to the middle of the 19th century.

- The new ideas were Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy.

- It was sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish if from the word

transcendental.

The Crucible Notes

- Reverend Samuel Parris - Salem, Massachusetts in 1962, He is in his middle 40's, he doesn't like children, he doesn't/didn't think that they should be ready to be young adults.

- Salem Residents thought children were thankful for being able to walk straight, eyes lowered, arms to the side, and mouths shut until bidden to speak.

- Salem was a really small town of about 200 - 300.

- The Salem tragedy developed from a Paradox.

- Tituba - Reverend Parris' slave, is 40 years old

Samuel Parris
- Abigail Williams - Parris's niece, 17 years old, beautiful, orphan

- Mrs. Ann Putnam - 45 years old

- Thomas Putnam, landowner, nearly 50, his wife's brother-in-law is James Bayley, fought indeans at Narragansett

- James Bayley - turned down as minister of Salem

Thomas Putnam

The Salem Witch Trials

From June 1692 through September, nineteen men and women were convicted of doing witchcraft, they were brought to Gallows Hill for hanging. One man that was over eighty years old was pressed under heavy stones to death for refusing to go through the charges for witchcraft.

The Salem Witch Trials

From June 1692 through September, nineteen men and women were convicted of doing witchcraft, they were brought to Gallows Hill for hanging. One man that was over eighty years old was pressed under heavy stones to death for refusing to go through the charges for witchcraft.

The Puritan's

The Puritan's didn't like how their church was feeding them their religious believes so they decided to leave and practice religion somewhere else