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Arthur Millers play, The Crucible, is a very powerful statement about Puritan ethics in the 17th century. The play depicts a character, John Proctor, against both his inner conscience to do what is right, and against the courts of Salem, where he is involved in a crucible to rid the city of witches. These circumstances arise for Proctor because of his affair with Abigail Williams, the leader of the girls who have starte ....
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.... become public. Throughout the first act, Proctor stays away from the witch trials of Salem; he hopes that Reverend Hale will be able to solve the witch problems so that he may continue to keep his affair a secret. In a dialogue between Proctor and his wife Elizabeth, he says to her, on the subject of his not returning to Salem in eight days, "I have no business in Salem." She replies, "You did speak of going, earlier in the wee ....
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