Analysis Of Witches ! By Rosalyn Schanzer

The book going over in this essay is called Witches! by Rosalyn Schanzer, and is a book about the events that have taken place in the town of Salem. This is a very weird and mysterious subject because so many people died in a very strange and concerning manner. First of which is “attention” this could be a factor in this crisis because some people could have accused people just to get attention from the people around them and be in the center of activity. Second is people just doing it for fun or “sport” if they're bored they could enjoy people being killed or harassed in jail. The last and most probably biggest one, is revenge, people could have hated another and wanted them dead and realizing this was a very efficient and good way to do it or at least get them arrested.The accusations in the Salem Witch Trials were motivated by attention, sport, and revenge.

The accusations were made due to a desire for attention. Imagine someone is sitting in their home with nothing to do and people just got accused of making magic things and brewing elixirs, and were being arrested, this is why Tituba was arrested “carefully following Sibley’s recipe, Tituba and John Indian mixed some rye flour and the afflicted girls’ urin, patted into the shape
After the condemned Sarah Good came to Paris’s doorstep for help and was kicked off Paris began to hate her, so when his children began to have convulsions and be sick they accused her. Also after Burroughs didn’t pay someone he was accused from states away “then he got into a bitter dispute with the Putnam family” (Schanzer 64)! After he recited the entire Lord’s Prayer in prodigious they said the Devil told him how to say it “but Burroughs had recited it perfectly.” (Schanzer 64)! After her mother Sarah Good was hanged Dorcas was left alone shackled in prison for eight months, they tried to bail her out but it was to late “She had gone insane.” (Schanzer