@article{2014,title={The Witch Hunt in Paradise by Toni Morrison},abstractNode={This paper aims to reveal how the attitudes of ex-slave black men in Ruby fictionalized by Toni Morrison in Paradise against their women and young people and then the women in the Convent near Ruby with ambition for power resemble to the witch hunts in the 15th century in Europe. The men developed a new kind of dominancy in their village founded to have a new, free and peaceful life turn this fake paradise into a hell for women because of patriarchal attitudes and behaviors. After a while, this paradise evolves into a paradise for only men and their full-blooded power. In consequence of the race of having control over women and young people and efforts to shape the future according to their own rules, some changes perceived as corruption and degeneracy by men come up. Living in the Convent, women who are offended, beaten or humiliated in one way or another are blamed to be witches and to have some supernatural forces because they live in peace together and in solidarity without any need to men. Some men who are pride of coming from full-blooded families tie some troublesome developments in these women. Relating their own sins, wrong attitudes and mistakes and bad progression in the village to the women’s free and independent lives, these men refuse blaming themselves and try to get rid of their responsibilities. This situation ends up with the men of eight full-blooded families launch a witch hunt against the women in the Convent.},author={Bülent Cercis TANRITANIR-- Kıvılcım UZUN},year={2014},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}