Salem Possessed Lesson Plan

Note how both factions seemed to be driven by fear. Was one faction more fearful than the other, and if so, which one and why? Were their fears founded? Why or why not?

This question refers to the “moral dimension” of the conflict to which the authors refer in Chapter 4: Village Factionalism: A Wider Perspective, and how this sets the tensions between Porters and Putnams apart from mere petty squabbling. (There may also be an opportunity here to relate this ascribing of morality to a political position to the political parties in the U.S. today.) Another important aspect to this question is about whether one faction was more threatened by the other, either in their...