Creative Writing: The Salem Witch Trail

became the night editor of the Michigan Daily, and began experimenting with theater and writing plays. He lived through the Great Depression and it seemed that the fragility and susceptibility of human existence in the modern era manifested into the playwright. Miller wrote plays for the Federal Theatre, which provided work for unemployed writers, actors, directors, and designers. Miller 's creative writing career span was over a sixty year span and during this time, Miller had written twenty-six

style and gloomy tones within Hawthorne’s writing is extremely prevalent through his symbolism and themes, which has been seen as a staple of his work. Nathaniel Hawthorne is credited to be one the greatest and most influential American writers in history. Similar to Edgar Allen Poe, Hawthorne is most famous for his short stories and his impact in the Dark Romanticism genre. Hawthorne’s ability to take his dark past and use it as a creative tool for writing truly exhibits Hawthorne as not only an author

The Salem Witch Trials was a series of events that killed innocent people and brought fear to the community. The infamous Salem witch trials began during the Spring of 1692, located in Salem Village, Massachusetts. The people of Salem wanted to purge against anything that was considered remotely unholy. A group of young girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. A special court was made due to this wave of hysteria that spreaded through colonial

true events with things that they couldn’t know so they made them up. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Washington Irving are well known authors of American Romanticism. They are also all known for pushing these boundaries through their creative writing styles. The Romantic Movement, as generally agreed by most scholars, focuses on the individual, the subjective, and the spontaneous (Pennell, 2006, 2). Romantics encouraged contemplation and self-awareness, direct contact with nature, and a

political authority within Salem and its parallels to the conservative 1940’s USA politics and its abuse of power. Leading responders to understand the excessive political zeal that represses the individual. The play opens with young girls dancing naked in the forest caught red handed practicing ‘witchcraft’ and fear prosecution. Puritan’s strict theocratic environment believed that all suspected witches were worthy of death, conveying the social stigma associated with writing in the metaphorical “Devil’s

"At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful." - André Breton In 17th-century Colonial America, contact with the supernatural was considered part of everyday life; many people believed that evil spirits were present and active on Earth. This superstition emerged 15th century Europe and spread with the colonization of North American puritan colonies.