Brief Summary Of 'The Salem Witch Trials'
The Salem Witch Trials "When the lines between reality and delusion become so blurred, you can no longer know what's real and what is not." This is a quote by A.B. Shepherd. This can be a direct example of those women accused of being witches in the Salem witch trials. For these women, most of their lives during the year of the trials could have felt a little like this. You are standing in a room when suddenly, an unexplainable feeling over takes you. Every bit of sanity that you have is lost as the feeling of bugs crawling in your skin overtakes you. There is no way to remove this unbearable senstion. "What is that smell?" you think. Suddenly the smell becomes a wretched taste in your mouth. Each second, the awful feeling is heightened as
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Imagine how it would feel to have just made a new colony, after going through so many other things previously. It would be like taking on an on weighty project at work after your house has just burnt down. The Puritans who built this colony had previously gone through a malicious war, an epidemic of smallpox, and were facing attacks from Native American Tribes. And on top of all of that, there were now women claiming to have been possessed by the devil. Basically, they had gone through a rough couple of years, and they were at their ends wits. Could these happenening possibly have been due to so much stress? As we all know, women get pretty up tight when going through so many situations. In our day, many people go through hallucinations. The things that these women went through can be compared with hallucinations had by many daily. A thirty year old woman named Jennifer reported just this last year of how she would hear many different voices in her head, and feel a strange sensation of bugs crawling on her skin. There are thousands of reports just like Jennier's of people going through such strange things. So, maybe that is just what these people were going through during the Salem witch trials, but they just didn't have a way of explaining, causing them to assume that it was of the
Imagine how it would feel to have just made a new colony, after going through so many other things previously. It would be like taking on an on weighty project at work after your house has just burnt down. The Puritans who built this colony had previously gone through a malicious war, an epidemic of smallpox, and were facing attacks from Native American Tribes. And on top of all of that, there were now women claiming to have been possessed by the devil. Basically, they had gone through a rough couple of years, and they were at their ends wits. Could these happenening possibly have been due to so much stress? As we all know, women get pretty up tight when going through so many situations. In our day, many people go through hallucinations. The things that these women went through can be compared with hallucinations had by many daily. A thirty year old woman named Jennifer reported just this last year of how she would hear many different voices in her head, and feel a strange sensation of bugs crawling on her skin. There are thousands of reports just like Jennier's of people going through such strange things. So, maybe that is just what these people were going through during the Salem witch trials, but they just didn't have a way of explaining, causing them to assume that it was of the