Putnam had seven babies that died and her only living child is acting peculiar. Tituba was Parris’s slave woman from Barbados. Explain how the witch-hunt years were a time of “general revenge.” When the witch hunts started, it was an excellent opportunity for them to “let their hair down” and get revenge on their neighbors for whatever petty squabbles they had been having. “So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong and deceitful ideas.” What is the irony in that statement?īeing under such strict laws and commandments, the Puritans had to repress a lot of their anger and spirit of revenge towards their neighbors.
They turned their colony into a place almost as bad as the place they had left. The Puritans came to this country for religious freedom however, when they got here they persecuted others as they had been persecuted. The government is based upon The Bible, thus Salem is a theocracy.
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