dress,and masculine ways. It was all seen through the womens new ways of forwardness andliberties. A good example was with Adam and Eve being punished for the sin of pride,rebelling against the order of creation, but Eve was seen as rebelling both as part of manand as mans other. This is how Eve was seen as the fall of man. Yet looking upon her asmade for the man, and by the Creators law owing a subordination to him, so she may alsobe looked upon as instrumental. as said by Willard. Willard means that Eve should haveencouraged Adam to obey God since she was created to serve man, but she didnt. Thiscaused her to be seen as a mischief and for the cause of the downfall of man. For theactions of Eve God placed a special curse on the female race, Unto the woman he said, Iwill greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow shalt thou bring forthchildren: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. It was seenthat part of womens sin was the seduction of man and another was her failure to serveman. Although Willard never actually said that there was a direct connection betweenwoman and Satan, he thought that woman was influenced by the Devil and she did whatshe did voluntary of her own free will.West 3In the Puritian society, Eve was seen as the main symbol of women as evil. Shewas considered in many ways to be the first witch ever. The values of order and hierarchywere very important to society in the Puritian culture. And the ones that could not accepttheir responsibilities in the society were considered the most evil of all. The second professor, Kai T. Erikson, took an entirely different stand on theHysteria of Witchcraft in Salem. She did not feel that it was caused by a fear of women,but by a product of the Puritian colonist efforts to restore a common sense of mission,which they believed had vanished after the first 60 years of their settlement.During the times of the Salem Witchcraft Hyste...
