Affect of the Salem Witch Trials

The Salem Witch Trials still affects and haunts the American imagination today. When the event occurred in 1692, the colonial authorities has banned any publications that talked about or were related to it. Because they do not want people to spread any rumors that hurt the villages and make people alienated by it. After the crisis, Governor Phips wrote a letter to Privy Council and said: put a stop to the Print[ing] of any discourse one way or the other that may increase the needless disputes of people upon this occasion because I saw a likelihood of Kindling an inextinguishable flame. But this event was very popular and especially, it was a good example of mass hysteria so even Governor Phips was trying to stop people writing about it but he could not. Nowadays, the world is developing, human is developing, people get more interest to something weirdly. People like to read about their history, people like venturing weird theories about fungus bread, they like to listen some strange stories, especially that story is a real story. Based on knowledge of Americans appetite, many people were written about the Salem Witch Trials, some makes up it to make it more vivid. One of the most famous books about this event and talk more correct about it is The Witches by Stacy Schiff, this book was helped her got Pulitzer Prize and became one of her best selling. No matter how she wrote the book, no matter how its cover looks, or no matter how it reads. Because it was fit to American appetite, it became popular. The number of published books written about the event is not countable.At the certain time, people look back on the Salem Witch Trials and some books, movies about it and regarded them as a psychoanalyst listing the elements of a patientr's neurosis. This prompted the event to become more interesting and attracted American attention. It becomes a word of mouth story for person to person, with and probably it got some make up on it to make the story more interesting. It made the events got more popular in American community. Also, because itr's an excellent example of how damage hysteria can create. Nowadays , when school teach students about hysteria, they usually use this real event as an example. In addition, it has strong influence to peopler's vision on witchcraft. The reason why The Salem Witch Trials has been teach in every school in both English and History class is because it show many ways of human, it shows human thought, and it reflected discrimination of the society and religious fanaticism. The discrimination of the events were two things, one is discrimination between women and men, and one is between upper class and lower class. It showing throughout the evidence that poor and no power people would easily be victims of witchcraft accusations. First three victims were poor people and belong to lower class; two of them were homeless and one was a slave. Beside, most of the victims were women, only one man were died. This event also talked about religious fanaticism, fanaticism in religious happened when someone goes over beyond of strict follow to his or her faith. It occurred in Salem when many died were the result of adherents to religious teachings by harsh behavior. Meanwhile , the reason for McCarthyism has been teach today is more simple than Salem Witch Trials, some schools do not really teach about it in English class, it just an event goes parallel with Salem Witch Trials to show of the contrastive. Two events were helping Americans develop to be strong such as today. Nowadays, Salem become one of the most popular place to visit. Because of that event, the Salem becomes a town to witches practice public, witches meaning here is the people who follow the Wicca religion - a religious comes from United Kingdom, Wiccan people believe in nature and usually a God or Goddess, emphasizes a strong connected with earth, they believe that they can take magical from earth. Because of faith in magical, every Wiccan believe that they are witches. Some visited place such as Salem Witch Village make another view of witches. Modern view of witches nowadays is totally different with the view of witches which appear in many centuries ago. They do not worship evil, instead of that they worship cycles of nature as a God. They even have a system called the Witches Education Bureau. When people visit to Salem during October, they will see many people customer witches are walking around streets or many shop in downtown selling magical equipments. People also appreciate that Salem today is a ruler of measurement of development of America. While people still fighting for their religion in many various in most the rest of the world. The strong development of the diplomat community in Salem is an evidence for freedom religion in America. Both Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism were be more strong. Nothing is useless. Everything got better when it has experienced throughout something. "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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