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Is Abigail Williams a Symptom or Cause of Events Which Take Place in 'The Crucible'?
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Is Abigail Williams a Symptom or Cause if Events Which Take Place in 'The Crucible'? After reading 'The Crucible', I feel that in a society like the one described in the play, things along those lines would have been inevitable, when one takes into account the way things worked there. For example, it was a theocracy, which means they are governed by the Church, which in turn goes by the ruling of the Holy Bible, and not any laws passed by regular means. Another major contributor to all this tension is the fact that out of the eight children, Ruth is the only one who survived. Mrs Putnam is convinced that they have all been killed by supernatural means, and is always paranoid and suspicious of anything out of the ordinary. This means when the cries of witch start spreading, she is convinced she has at last found the cause of...
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