How To Write A Summary Of The Crucible Chapter 2

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In Beginning of the second chapter of the book the Author started by explaining the setting of the book. The book starts in a summer morning in what appears like colonial Boston. The author explains how many of the people drest and how the people talked which makes the readers believe that this takes place in the colonial area. Many of the cities citizens were gathered outside of an old jail waiting for something that’s about to happened. In the sentence “there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical and in whose character bother were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.” from chapter two, the author is explaining how all the towns people are acting in the same way waiting for the person who did something that went against religious and social law.…show more content…
They saw it as going against the law of God making religion the bigger factor of why this person was in jail and why this person might be killed. This can be viewed similar to The Crucible. Religion was a big factor of why so many people were killed. The Salem government didn’t have any real explanation about why the girls were acting the way they were so they turned to religion to explain the unexplainable. They didn’t have any law at the time making it illegal to be a witch so they used religion or the law of God as an excuse to kill all those people. In both cases religion was equal or even more powerful than the
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