... to believe that their neighbors, whom they have always considered upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable crimes "communing with the devil, killing babies, and so on. In The Crucible, the townsfolk accept and become active in the hysterical climate not only out of genuine religious piety but also because it gives them a chance to express repressed sentiments and to ... recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text's major themes. Empowerment The witch trials empower several characters in the play who are previously mar...

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... an irreversible process of decay. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, this is the dilemma that faces Salem. Early one morning, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, Betty Parris, is found in her bed, unmoving, after her father caught she and the other girls of the village dancing in the woods. Due to her strange symptoms, and the fact that the doctor cannot find any natural cause ... that one man with seemingly pure intentions can do to a community and even a nation. It also shows the lengths to which people will go to protect themselves, even turning on their neighbors. In Arthur Miller...

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