Question

Analyze the following passage for audience, purpose, tone, and perspective to show the main idea.

"We have been advised by some credible Christians yet alive, that a malefactor, accused of witchcraft as well as murder, and executed in this place more than forty years ago, did then give notice of an horrible plot against the country by witchcraft, and a foundation of witchcraft then laid , which if it were not seasonably discovered, would probably blow up, and pull down all the churches in the country. And we have now with horror seen the discovery of such a witchcraft! An army of devils is horribly broke in upon the place which is the center, and after a sort, the first-born of our English settlements: and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands, with tortures altogether preternatural." (Cotton Mather, "The Wonders of the Invisible World")

Answer 1

The main idea of this passage from "The Wonders of the Invisible World" is that the narrator is proving proof that the said witchcraft that they thought had happened, has happened. The audience is whoever the narrator is trying to persuade. The tone of the passage is of conviction and of what the narrator thought was true. The purpose of the narrator saying this is to show that they were right and they knew that the witchcraft.

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Answer 2

The main idea of the passage above from Cotton Mather's "The Wonders of the Invisible World" is to justify the outcome of the trials. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.