There are so many different interpretations on this topic, as Rich Latner says,”In recent years, scholars have variously emphasized intra-community group conflict, gender concerns, psychological relationships, and frontier Indian clashes as central to the Salem outbreak. But the pursuit of Salem’s elusive meaning continues.”26 Therefore, since there are so many different interpretations of the Salem Witch Trials, it is interesting to look at it like Gail Collins, an American journalist and author, did, as a “Rorschach test.”27 The reflections of previous historians, authors and theorists reveal a lot about the interpreter of the past as much as the actual event of the Salem Witch Trials itself. For all people, Salem will continue to enchant and make all historians from every school of thought to ponder for a long time to
There are so many different interpretations on this topic, as Rich Latner says,”In recent years, scholars have variously emphasized intra-community group conflict, gender concerns, psychological relationships, and frontier Indian clashes as central to the Salem outbreak. But the pursuit of Salem’s elusive meaning continues.”26 Therefore, since there are so many different interpretations of the Salem Witch Trials, it is interesting to look at it like Gail Collins, an American journalist and author, did, as a “Rorschach test.”27 The reflections of previous historians, authors and theorists reveal a lot about the interpreter of the past as much as the actual event of the Salem Witch Trials itself. For all people, Salem will continue to enchant and make all historians from every school of thought to ponder for a long time to