"The necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state" (Miller 34).
Explanation: This quote explains how the Devil can be used as a weapon to force people to join the church. Its revelence to this story is that by calling people witches and incorporating people with the devil people can be coarsed to live the puritanical life that society wants them to live.
"Our oppisites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconcious conviction that demonology gains both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten" (Miller 36).
Explanation: Here the author explains how the "enemy" is always included with sexual sin, making it seem so enticing and sensual yet evil and maniacal. This sensual evilness is related to the story because the characters view witchcraft as mysterious and evil, yet it has this alluring aspect. It is mysterious and intriguing. This mysteriousness and intrigue is what makes them fear witchcraft so much because they fail to understand its mysteries and their interest in it. So they incorporate it with evil because they cannot explain it.
Questions:
Why did Abigail and Proctor cut their relationship?
How might the family rivalries in the town affect the witchcraft theories? And why?
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