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So far, I think I am going to focus on Witchcraft and the progression of the years from Salem to now and our views of ‘witches’. There has been a significance in history around the inhumane tragedies done to those who were claimed to be witches. Then through the years witches almost turned into a supernatural idea of a fictional thing. In our present-day era, ideas on witches and the whole idea of them has shifted to almost being viewed as idolized. There are many tv shows depicting witches as being glorified is a mystical way and are not looked at as monsters. Even for Halloween, people chose to dress up as something that was once hung for being even considered one. I basically want to show the transition from Salem times, til now and what caused us to switch mindsets/depictions on those who were considered witches.

Another idea was to focus on Zimbardo’s prison experiment. This focused on the reasons why those involved in certain situations play a role of someone they are not due to someone of higher authority putting them in that role. He was trying to conduct to see if it was similar to the event that occurred where American troops were torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib, a prison in Iraq. So for this topic of if people are truly evil or if it’s just social roles taking over on someones morals. My research will focus on many events in history that show the social roles can cause an obediency to those who are over them and the big historical events where roles took over and those who were made to be better or in charge, took those roles very seriously.