... to confess. Francis Nurse A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Nurse is well respected by most people in Salem, but is an enemy of Thomas Putnam and his wife. Judge Danforth The deputy governor of Massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupu-lous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft. Giles Corey An ... Abigail's group. Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Intolerance The Crucible  is set in a theocratic society, in whi...

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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 ... . This gave her cause to assume that there was an occult involvement and hence upon the accusations of witchcraft she assumed that this must have been the cause of her children's death...

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