This is crucial to know because women of the seventeenth century were under social and religious pressure that left women in a vulnerable position, which consequently led to a search for power, sense of their own potency, and social reward.1 Many people have suggested multiple explanations by taking considering external factors. ... Moreover, half those men were not directly accused but were found guilty by association.3 Having said, pathological explanations, such as the idea encephalitis, also fail to elaborate on the sex-biased ratio.4 Therefore, there are a few facts that one must take in...

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Throughout all of Western Europe an extensive amount of witch hunts took place between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... However towards the beginning of the eighteenth century witch hunts decreased dramatically. Reasons for the decline include a development in the intellectual mind of society, a stricter judicial system, changes in religion and the fact that quality of life increasingly improved compared to the life lived by those prior to the eighteenth century. ... (Thomas 1971, p. 684) Therefore with all these new theories challenging traditional views, by the eighteenth century...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most brilliant writers of the 19th century. ... The unusual time of day, particularly in the end of the seventeenth century, "at sunset" (65), when Goodman Brown leaves his home and his wife Faith, who he describes as "a blessed angel" (65) and as his "sweet, pretty wife" (65), underlines that the destination of his journey has to be a sinful or at least an immoral place thus he calls himself a "wretch to leave her" (65). ...

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Anti-socialist movements in 1950's America fueled the hysteria and paranoia of the Cold War. Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, amplified the chaos and accused many Americans for being enemy spies. Innocent Americans were prosecuted for being communist sp...

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