Part one of term paper
During the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth century, belief in the reality of witches was widespread both in America and in Europe. Thousands of people were put to death during the period; and a few people questioned the actual existence of witches, but the only problem was how to identify one? The Puritans accepted most re ...

Part two of term paper
... community. When Elizabeth and John Proctor hinted that it is not proven that witches exist, the Reverend Hale was shocked and cried out: “You surely do not fly against the Gospel, the Gospel-.” The Reverend himself was ready to point his finger at anyone in Salem and pronounce him/her a witch if the word of God was not followed to any extremity. About forty-five years after the Salem witchcraft trials, the Puritan minister, Jonathan Edwards, used the following imagery to character ...