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" To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics" pg.4 This shows the feelings and judgment of the European world.

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“This predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness” pg.5
This shows foreshadowing that there is going to be chaos because of people not mindind there buis

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"People were forced to fight the land like heroes for every grain of corn, and no man had very much time for fooling around". This stressful life pattern can lead to the weird and bizarre occurrences led by the brains imagination in search for relaxation and recreation.

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"It's a paradox in whose grip we still live, and there is no prospect yet that we will discover its resolution." Act 1 page 7

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"When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied someday." (7) This quote means that when one person stands up against an individual accusation, society pities them, yet in the end the society as a whole is pitied because of their accusations and panic.

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“It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day, for out of it Indian tribes marauded from time to time,and Reverend Paris had parishioners who had lost relatives to these heathen.” it’s dark and scary.

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" Be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas" (page 5)
We chose this because it shows how people in that community were easily persuaded.

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This is an important quote where the author compares the witch trials to communism

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“It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims”.
Many people had secrets that they could not dare to say out loud, and when the Salem witch trials were going on, people were very easily able to explain their problems on others and were able to explain things that didn’t make sense to them even if it threw others under the bus.

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“Probably more than the creed, hard work kept the morals of the place from spoiling, for the people were forced to fight the land like heroes for every grain of corn...” this shows that people have strong morals and strongly stick to them because they work hard for what they have, which makes them way more defensive when accused of something. In the crucible case bring defensive makes it worse.

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"Of course it was her spirit only, but his satisfaction at confessing himself was no lighter thab if it had been martha herself"-7

This theory which was a lie will cause panic and create the plot.

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Simply, it was for this: for good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power who’s function and was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies. Page: 7

This quote shows how ironic their actions were contradictory of what they set up or planned them to be with the state and church being connected.

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Page 7 "The witchhunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. When one rises above the individual villany displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied someday. It is still impossible for man to organize his social life without repressions, and the balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom." Meaning that there is always going to be something happening even after going over one obstacle another one will always be there

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“When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pitty them all, just as we shall be pitied one day.” Page 7 we decided to choose this quote because it’s basically saying that anyone can be pitied or accused of doing/being something.

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“Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s charitable injunctions.” Pg. 7
-This quote tells us that townspeople started using witchcraft as an excuse to get people they hate excecuted or in jail A

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“They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world.” (pg.5). I chose this quote because I feel like it shows the confidence that the folk have towards everything they’re doing

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"... suspicions and the envy of the miserable toward the happy could and did burst out in the general revenge." pg.8 lines 5-6
I believe this quote is the most important because it sets up the core motivation for almost every accusation.

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Page 7: The people of Salem developed a
theocracy a combine of state and religion whose function was to keep the community together.

The reason I chose this quote was that the town of Salem is a very religious based community so when the 🤬 and his worshipers are brought out into the light by the accusers they have no chose but to react as the church would. They have no sense when it comes to religious decisions and only have the mindset to go crazy and 🤬 them.

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I picked the quote “suspicions and the envy of the miserable toward the happy could and did burst out in the general revenge”pg8 because it has a lot of foreshadowing. The sentence tells you that there’s drama in the next chapters but doesn’t give any other detail on how or when and I think it helps add suspicion to oncoming text.

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“This predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness” (5) this quote is crucial to understanding the plot because it lets the reader know that this is the reason the whole witch trials mayhem began in the first place.

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"So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas"- pg 5

This shows the intolerance of the people feeling persecution.

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“Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s charitable injunctions.” (Pg.7) I chose this quote because I feel it shows how people weren’t just accusing those whom they genuinely suspected or feared, they were using it as a way to make others suffer, even though the entire town revolves around the ways of the Bible, which supports love and kindness.

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