“Young Goodman Brown” and the Salem Witch Trials Nathaniel Hawthorne published the short story “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835, more than a hundred years after the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Despite the distance, the fictional text by Hawthorne about one man’s diabolic dream relates closely to the historical event which claimed many …
Over three hundred years ago in the town of Salem Massachusetts a problem was laid into our hands. A problem that will haunt our nation for years and years to come. When our nation was faced with a simillar problemit was almost taken the same as it was with the Salem Witch Trials. This problem …
The Salem Witch Trials: Causation and Continuity Introduction The Salem Witch Trials have consistently fascinated scholars dating from their immediate aftermath in 1692 when a number of personal and academic commentaries were published up until contemporary times. This fascination, in turn, has tended over the course of the past three hundred years to be …
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a series of trials in which twenty-four people were killed after being accused of practicing witchcraft. These trials were caused by different social climates of the area including the very strong lack of a governor, the split between Salem Village and Salem Town, and the strict puritan lifestyle …
