I am an admin of this site. Edit as much as you wish, but one little thing If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! He served as Chief Clerk of the Salem court, as well as drawing up warrants for the accused.
In , Arthur Miller wrote a play called The Crucible about the witch trials, turning Cheever into a minor antagonist. The story has since been performed many times and has even adapted into several films.
Like his real-life counterpart, Cheever serves as a clerk working directly for the chief judge, Thomas Danforth.
While initially a friend of the play's hero John Proctor, Cheever becomes an antagonistic force in the second act after he arrests John's wife Elizabeth for witchcraft. Historian Charles W. Ezekiel Cheever died Aug. Here are six fun facts about the old Puritan schoolmaster.
It would require a pretty good scholar in arithmetic to tell how many stripes he had inflicted, and how many birch rods he had worn out, during all that time, in his fatherly tenderness for his pupils. He also wrote a textbook, probably the first in America. Hawthorne commented,.
The controversy over periwigs raged throughout New England during the 17 th century. The periwig was a highly styled wig, a fashion imported from Europe. Wig opponents called it wasteful and extravagant. The early Puritans hated them, but they eventually won acceptance.
Cotton Mather, for example, wore a long brown periwig. Samuel Sewall, like Cheever, wore a black skullcap. Cheever gave hundreds of New England boys the tools to build those Puritan cities on hills. His best students entered Harvard and were ordained as ministers. Map of New Haven in , when Ezekiel Cheever lived there. These boys are to be the merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics of a future period. Who says witchcraft is a black mischief? John Proctor then says, "Oh, it is a black mischief" Miller, Proctor is aware that Abigail and her followers are lying, which is why he refers to their accusations and hysterical actions in court as "black mischief.
What does Ezekiel Cheever accuse Elizabeth of using the doll for? Mary Warren gave the doll to Elizabeth so that Abigail could falsely accuse her. Why is it ironic that Cheever arrests Elizabeth? It is ironic that Ezekiel Cheever is the one who arrests Elizabeth Proctor because the Proctors were blaming Abigail and told Cheever to arrest her, but Cheever ignored them and went to search Elizabeths house and found the needle in the poppets skirt.
What is walking Salem? Proctor remarks that "vengeance is walking Salem" and that "common vengeance writes the law". He is clearly stating that there is no prima facie evidence of witchcraft, but that certain individuals are using the accusation out of spite or to take revenge against others.
What is ironic about Ezekiel Cheever coming to take Elizabeth? Elizabeth presses him, saying, "Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever—he knows you well. What will happen to Goody Osburn Why? Mary Warren tells Elizabeth and Proctor that thirty-nine people are in jail, and Goody Osburn will hang because she did not confess to witchcraft. Proctor becomes angry because he believes the court is condemning people without solid evidence. Why did Abigail drink blood?
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