It's really difficult to tell which depictions you mean, because there have been a lot. However, in the last thirty years or so there has been some really interesting work done on Salem. Carol Karlsen's landmark study The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman showed that 89% of those executed were women from families where they had interrupted the standard male lines of inheritance- for example the only daughter of a dead father, or the mother of a dead son without heir, and so forth. She describes these women as 'aberrations in a society designed to keep property in the hands of men', and while it's hard to argue that those convicting witches in Salem realised what they were doing, it seems clear that this was a factor. Anxieties about inheritance seem to have been at the heart of most witchcraft accusations in the North-East of the USA in the late 17th century, and Salem provides a very interesting example of subconscious sexism. It's safe to say no modern portrayal has quite couched the 'outbreak' in these terms.