People of the Salem witch trials

In Salem, Massachusetts there is a house that was owned during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. During this time, there was two young girls that would go around accusing people of being witches. Those who were accused would be put into jail. If they confess they would be set free but an outcast for the rest of their life. If they didn’t they would be killed. It was a very harsh time in day for the United States of America. The home was built upon another house in which the house was owned by a…

The Salem Witch Trials In 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, many of the young girls and women were complaining of being possessed by the devil due to witchcraft. However, none of the villagers were certain of who was doing the witchcraft. The girls accused many other women and some men in the village out of revenge or pure hatred. “Thousands of suspected witches were hanged or burned in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and belief in witches was common in the American…

rose, but in 1692 Salem, people did not believe this at all. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters are ever concerned with how their reputations will be affected, more so than any other sense. Reverend Parris is concerned with how his reputation will suffer and if he will lose his job. John Proctor is concerned with his reputation and eventually dies for it. Reverend Parris is shocked when he discovers that his niece, Abigail, and several other girls from Salem are caught…

The Salem Witch trials represented an episode of strife, hysteria, and community paranoia; the likes of which the world has never encountered, albeit witchcraft was condemned in other regions of the colonies as well as Europe. Salem was a devoutly religious society and whenever supernatural events that couldn’t be explained logically or reasonably, witchcraft was the scapegoat that explained everything. The Salem Witch trials were a direct result of misogynous qualities that men harbored, which…

respect and no power in Salem. The actions and motives of Abigail are mostly fueled by her desire to be relevant and powerful in Salem, amongst the ministers and other high authority figures in Salem. The Salem witch trials prove to be a grand opening for Abigail to take advantage of the spooked and ignorant citizens of Salem, as she manipulatively influences the other irrelevant and powerless girls in Salem to abide by…

Salem, Massachusetts, was a town in colonial America founded by the Puritans from England. The Puritans had strict laws and ideals based on their religious beliefs. These included the prohibition of dancing, the following of all of God’s laws and commandments, and the strict behavioral expectations of women and children. In early 1692, young women and girls, repressed by their society, started accusing the adults, mostly women, of witchcraft, punishable by hanging in the Puritan courts. A person…

The salem witch trials and the holocaust were both great examples of both follower mentality and mass hysteria in the face of the unknown.(History.com) The salem witch trials showed that people will follow people in a position of power to a fault in the face of a fearful situation.(History.com) As did the holocaust it showed the blind following and loss of morality in the face of controversy.(History.com) The salem witch trials was a perfect example of hysteria.(History.com) It all started…

innocent people that were killed due to Abigail Williams’s witchcraft accusations. It begins during 1692 in Arthur Millers “The Crucible” when Abigail, reverend Parris’s niece and multiple other girls were found by Mr. Parris in the woods practicing witchcraft, after this they started acting strangely. When the law comes down on Abigail, she starts accusing people of practicing witchcraft. This leads to the Salem Witch Trials, which are the result of Abigail Williams’ blaming of innocent people.…

The injustice against the Salem Witches. Through the years of 1400 and 1800 a series of events took place where there was an injustice toward a group of people that were believed to be witches. These people had to turn on each other in order to survive. The fear of dying only led them to fight for survival even if it meant blaming innocent people. Although there were a lot of religious principles, people also believed witches were real. Due to these beliefs, people were executed whether…

shootings. Similarly 20 people were killed in the Salem Witch Trials. Both were senseless acts of violence that should never of happened. The difference however was the killer. In Newtown it was a single man who was mentally disabled. In Salem it was government officials. How could this have happened? Author Miller aims to explain this unimaginable event in his play, The Crucible. The play is set in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600’s. It begins in the small, quiet town of Salem before it…