1. The Crucible and McCarthyism
... "I see no light of God in that man," is Parris being described as devoid of light. Throughout the play, there is a distinct boundary with which people are associated, either being with God or against God. At the end of Act three Proctor exclaims, "When you know all in your black hearts God damns our kind especially, and we will ... religious figure that led the Israelites across the Red Sea. The people think of her as a saint, another religious concept, indicating to us that the town believes she is doing the work of God, intensifying the irony that in fact her real agenda is much more ...
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