Giles Corey is a strong old man who has only recently converted to Christianity. He's likable, but is not too bright. His biggest bumble<span> in the play is when brings up the fact that his wife reads strange books. To Giles, any book is strange and the idea of a woman wanting to read totally blows his mind. His mention of this fact leads to an accusation that his wife is a witch.</span>
Giles feels terrible about this. He knows his wife is innocent and recognizes that his own actions have led to her incarceration and impending death. He attempts to defend his wife by going to the court and showing them proof that, in at least one case, the accusation is based on Thomas Putnam’s greed for a neighbor’s bit of land. This backfires and he is condemned himself.
<span>Corey's incredible strength of character is shown in the end when he neither confesses to, nor denies, the charges of witchcraft. By doing so, he ensures that his sons can legally inherit his property. Even though he is brutally tortured by having crushingly heavy stones place on his chest, the only thing Giles says is "More weight" </span>
The spontaneous flow of feelings is a poetry beyond logic and reasoning.
<u>Explanation:</u>
In deed, imagination is as powerful and important to human progress as these poets believe. William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads as well as S. T. Coleridge's Kubla Khan played a major role during the 18th century to write poems on one's imagination and depending on the spontaneous flow.
The spontaneous flow of feelings is a poetry beyond logic and reasoning. It broke all the aspects of Aristotle's rules on logic and reasoning. Kubla Khan is one of the greatest imaginary poem ever written by Coleridge which is still praised. A king who imagines a whole different place in his dream. Lyrical Ballads is another great poem written by Wordsworth and Coleridge tha depicts the New Romantic Movement.
Imagination and virtue develop the innovative side of a human, with the power of thoughts anything can be achieved. A development of an object or a society is in the power of virtue and imagination.
the correct answer is mimicry, reversal and exaggeration
A paradox contradicts itself so therefore it would have to be “Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”
