Part one of term paper
The story takes place during the sixteen-nineties (1690's or early colonial America). This was a time when superstition was well beleived and it was quite frightening for most people. The place where the events in question took place was in Salem, a town in the colony of Massachusetts. Around Salem were the towns of Andover to the NW, Topsf ...

Part two of term paper
... anyone and everyone was in on the trials. Many people testified against the accused witches, not many defended them. Perhaps this was because they might be accused of wizardry of being a witch themselves if they did so. I can say that there were important families such as the Carrier, Jacobs, Proctor, Good, Hobbs, Nurse, and the Cory's. Also many children were supposedly being hurt by witches and they banded together against the accused. The predicament in this story was that events such a ...