... tells that he believes he saw some movement in the soup! Abigail tries to defend herself, exclaiming "That jumped in, we never put it in!" (39), but the nonchalant questioning swiftly takes a sharp turn: "Hale, grasping Abigail: ...Did you call the Devil last night? Abigail: I never called him! Tituba ... unless she sins– so she accepts it dutifully. We hear no commotion from her despite the fact that she is going to take her own life and leave the family that she loves and nurtures so much; she does not look for the easy way out, and so she shows ... government. Theocracies leave no...

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... - we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face" (39). This overconfident attitude of Reverend Hale leads him to make more conclusions than he should, resulting in the mass hysteria throughout Salem. As a reverend, Hale is a messenger ... sinful person in The Crucible without a doubt. She has had relations with a much older man, Proctor, and calls herself a messenger of God as she condemns many innocent men and women to their own death or humiliation. Certainly, Abigail knows that she is not being a good Christian by doing the terr...

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