"Abigail Hobbs, you are brought before Authority to answere sundry acts of witchcraft...What you say? Are you guilty, or not speak the truth. I will speak the truth. I have seen sights and been scared. I have been very wicked" ("The Salem Witchcraft Trials"). Looking at the time ...

The Importance of Non-Conformity Thomas Paine once wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls." He of course was speaking of the difficulty the colonists faced during the Revolutionary war. However, we see that throughout history there have been numerous times when man has been ...

The Salem Witch hysteria of the 1690's can be prematurely discerned as the result of a deranged society consisting of insane individuals. However, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, authors of Salem Possessed, do an excellent job of demonstrating that the citizens of Salem in the 1690's were not ...

1. How the events and the characters of the play relate to the theme "power" In The Crucible it is the effects of religious zeal, fear of heresy, intolerance and superstition that made the people of Salem willing to accept supernatural reasons for their problems. There is so much insecu...

"European witchcraft was a unique phenomenon which differed from European high magic from the low magic or simple sorcery" (Russel 658). "High magic and simple sorcery differ however in methods and motivation" (658). High magic was astrology and alchemy (658). Sorcerers are usually people that are ...