What Is The Role Of Being Accused During The Salem Witch Trials

For decades, we have talked about the Salem Witch Trials and their unfortunate events in hanging woman for being witches. Most of the people that were accused of witchcraft were women. The amounts of men to women were diverse in different parts of Europe. They were usually older women over the age of fifty and were in lower classes. Woman during this time play a huge role in the trial, because more women are accused of being witches and selling their souls to the devil than men would. So why are woman targeted more than men are for being a witch? Why are woman more likely to be prone to join the devil’s forces? Perhaps the reason is deeper than what people may think. This paper will explore how young girls accused innocent people for being witches because of their selfish reasons. This paper will focus on how woman plays a big role of being accused during the witch trials. On the surface, the Salem witch trials were a divesting time in that era,
Witchcraft is considered an act of treason and a capital offense and their punishment is to be hanged. The devil easily influences women to cross over to his side because women are more vulnerable to be influence by him. Puritan’s had and ideal for their women and they were to worship God and not the devil. In the video, “In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials” Puritan women were to be silent at all time and be wives and mothers to their husbands and children. A woman is supposed to be submissive to her husband. Since, woman did not have a voice it was thought that they were more likely than men to enlist into the devil’s services. Women were not allowed to be minsters so the devil has an open door to come in and target a woman easier. This reasoning behind that was because men did not think women should become preachers they wanted them to be housewives. Some women would rebel and cross over to the devils