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Vsevolod [243]
3 years ago
13

How does Benjamin Franklin show humor in a witch trial at mount holly support your answer with evidence from the text???

English
1 answer:
REY [17]3 years ago
3 0

The humor is shown in the way the trials were conducted; First of all, they were <u>advertised</u> - like an entertainment spectacle or a circus show.

  • <em>"Accordingly the Time and Place was agreed on, and advertised about the Country; "</em>

These witch trials are ridiculed because they are referred to as an <em>Experiment - </em>supposedly based on facts and reason to prove someone is guilty, and alluding to science experiments - when in reality they were not logical at all.

  • <em>"(...) if the Accused were weighed in Scales against a Bible, the Bible would prove too heavy for them; or that, if they were bound and put into the River, they would swim;"</em>

In the end they decide to repeat the trials, and they promise nudity to attract a bigger audience.

  • <em>" But it being the general Belief of the Populace, that the Womens Shifts, and the Garters with which they were bound help’d to support them; </em><u><em>it is said they are to be tried again the next warm Weather, naked.</em></u><em>"</em>
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