Sunday, November 2, 2008

salem.. guilty or not?

I embarked on a journey through the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In this journey I had to answer only one question was I guilty or not guilty. I became accused of being a witch. I had to go to a trial and everything. I found out that many people where in the same situation I was but in real life, back then people pretty much relied on other people’s word. So anyone could accuse someone else for anything, and accusing someone of being a witch would send them to trial, as I was on. The judge asked me “Are you a witch?” I confessed. I got sent to jail and had to be around women I think were witches and some women who I had no clue about. They wrapped chains around my legs that were meant to keep me from torturing the girls again (something I supposedly did). I got to stand trial, I hoped that I would be set free. But I wanted to blame someone else in fount of the judges, I thought of someone I could accuse of being a witch. Someone who lots of people believed to be one. I lied and told them that I had seen her specter floating out of houses and strangling women and torturing people. I’m found not guilty.
While I was taking this journey, so were many of my classmates whose pleads varied between guilty and not guilty, and some survived. This confirmed my suspicion that this web site was completely random. Whether you pleaded guilty or not guilty, did not determine the end of your journey. This was just like the actual Salem Which Trials, which were also pretty much at random. As many as one hundred and forty people were accused of witch craft and only nineteen were actually executed. I could imagine being accused and feeling alone and like you were against the world. And most of the people that weren’t killed were sent to prison, possible for life.
Being accused as a witch was not the best experience ever, mostly because it ended in me dieing. But it made me realize how it was a “anything goes” type deal, and a big problems back then.

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