be described as an act that would be considered unethical or immoral. Evil had different meaning back in the 1800’s compared to what it means today. Even in the 1600’s, almost 1700’s, which was when the witch trials began in colonial Massachusetts when more than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, the devil’s magic, and 20 were executed because of these trials Lets take for example Hannah Arendt’s situation when she was listening in on Eichmann’s testimony and wrote her essay: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. One thing Arendt certainly did not mean was that evil had become ordinary, or that Eichmann and his Nazi cohorts had committed an unexceptional crime. She thought the crime was exceptional, if not
