... even though it is completely irrational for learned men such as Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale to believe these girls. The willingness of the Salemites to accuse each other of witchcraft stemmed from their hidden motives and agendas. The characters of Thomas Putnam, Reverend Parris and Abigail Williams display this vindictiveness and narcissistic behavior through Putnam's land-lust, Parris' ... 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...

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The Crucible Act 1 1. Explain how the witch-hunt years were a time of "general revenge". The witch hunt years were a time of general revenge as any occurrence which someone found unfavorable or suspicious and was blamed on the work of the devil (which was many things due to the religious nature and high level of superstition among the people of this time) could now be blamed on a visible existence; i.e. the person accused of being ... a man who was jailed for failure to pay debts was also the minister of Salem, being chosen over Bayley who was again overlooked. Putnam was also unhappy as he ...

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