Role Of Martha Corey's Involvement In The Salem Witch Trials

The whole rampage began at the Parris’ house. The sickness of the little girl could have been an actual fact but the whole reason for it to expand into a full on persecution of witches is far too absurd. The person with the highest power in the town believed in traditional values, these values had been changing and the elite that was forming was against his beliefs. To damage the side of town he considered to be “non-religious” targeting the religious people to go against them as well became an elaborate and highly intelligent plant.

Not only, where the people behind Parris highly religious but they also had years accumulated of being ruled by Salem Town and them changing their traditional Salem. The existing hate made it easy for the speculations

Conservative Salem was not in agreement with the prosperity of Salem Town. There was also rivalries against the Putnam and the Parris’ due to the different beliefs in society. Many did not like the local power structure and the amount of influence Parris had over the town, many did not like his way of keeping Salem unmodernized and unchanged. The Trials ignited all the jealousy and ambition Salem had been cooking for

She was a highly respected churchgoer and her involvement in the trials as an accused highly doubts the idea that only some people were targeted in the scope of the trials. However, the standards of misfits and outcasts also applied to her for her past was not as clean as what was expected. In her earlier years, Corey has given birth to an illegitimate son named Beroni, who was thought to be a mulatto and showed her careless past. As acclaimed author Mary Beth Norton pointed out Martha’s sexual and spoken past could have been what brought on the accusations. "Acceptance into the church, given her personal background and the exclusivity of church membership in Salem Village, must have set tongues wagging. On at least one other occasion in seventeenth-century New England, the admission to church membership of a woman with a checkered sexual past fomented an uproar among her neighbors. The same could well have happened in the case of Martha Corey, causing speculation about the validity of her reputed adherence to Christianity,” this shows that the trials were mostly due to hight standards and a rigid culture in where people were discriminated against. The arrival of Parris’ traditions and prejudices made it possible for all the outcasts to be blamed of witchcraft and therefore a type of genocide was occurring in which people were targeted according to how well they fit in society. The