Young Goodman Brown: The Naive Self Righteous Puritan "Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, exhibits the underlying personalities of a small Puritan town set in Salem, Massachusetts, home of the Salem Witch Trials. This short story was first published in The New-E...

When the topic of a Puritanical society is brought up, most people think of a rigorous, conservative, highly devout society. While this may have usually been the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act out of brotherly, "Christian love", but to cruelly lash ...

The Salem Witchcraft trials of 1962 Salem, Massachusetts is located along a beautiful, vivacious harbor about 16 miles northeast of Boston. Salem has been known for a very long time for its many interesting historic sites. Some of these sites include places such as the birthplace of Nathaniel H...

Final Prep: Hawthorne, Miller, Clemens, Crane The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawtorne takes place in the seventeenth century, New England colony of Massachusetts. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel. She is an English woman and the wife of Roger Chillingworth. She is tried and con...

The Crucible There are several similarities and differences between the 1996 movie The Crucible and the truth about what happened in the Salem Witch Trials. Even though there were differences between the movie The Crucible and the actual Salem Witch Trials, the movie summarized the trials ver...