Essays on Salem Witch Trials

Gavin Mills once said, “If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.” Centuries, or even millenniums, before most of the world’s current population were even thought of being conceived, it was-and in fact,...

Literature often portrays the 17th century because of its importance throughout history. These stories readily capture readers’ attention when they both reflect and impact the time period that they were written about. The Crucible was written about the Salem Witch Trials of 1963, where women...

Imagine being labeled a “witch” without there being any evidence whatsoever. There is no one who can be trusted because there are supposed “witches” everywhere. Even family members could be a “witch.” There are people being hung just because some person points a finger at...

We can never fully trust our understanding of historical events. Past events are often reinterpreted, reconstructed and dramatised as the years pass. The Salem Witch Trials are a textbook example of this kind of historic, cultural and political manipulation. The trials took place in 1692...

The Salem Witch Trials represented a corporeal emulation of base human nature. New Historicism views the trials as both a product and result of the social, political, and religious climates seen in the seventeenth-century New World. A culmination of these myriad factors that wrought Puritanical...

Today, the impeachment of Donald Trump is one of the main topics in peoples’ minds. Unfortunately, President Trump has been feeling threatened by everybody, such as women, regular citizens, people within his party, and those who do not support him. For a while, Trump has...

Stereotypes are one of the most prominent groupthink symptoms. According to Irving Janis in Groupthink, “the victims of groupthink hold stereotyped views of enemy groups: they are so evil that genuine attempts at negotiating differences with them are unwarranted…” (pp. 366) There were various stereotypes...

The well fabled Salem Witch Trials took place around 1692, in a time and place copious of hysteria, condemnation and prosecution. During this early modern time period, science and the elements of the renaissance had already been taken to a place where it had not...

History generally regards the period of Salem witchcraft trials as a radical in-statement of religious zeal which favored superstition over reason and targeted a large number of women over a much smaller number of men. Admittedly, the 1692 witchcraft crisis is a very complex historical...

In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, paranoia, and suspicion loom over Salem Village as the story of the witch trials begins to unfold. In 1862, Reverend Parris kneels before the bed of his daughter Betty to pray to God that she wakes from her comatose state....