... them under its banner. As observed by King, "one touch of horror makes the whole world kin."31 The Puritans of America's early days did not understand much about their universe. In a vain attempt to explain what befell them, the Puritans built up "such personifications [and] marvelous interpretations"32 as to reveal their own morbid fascination with the unnatural. Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence ... nature of the Puritans. They believe that the forest was "the Devil's last preserve."33 Hence, when the Salem minister, Reverend Parris,...

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