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How Is Elizabeth Guilty In The Crucible

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As I’m sure you are already aware, Elizabeth has been accused of bearing a pact with Lucifer, and she has been taken to the jail upon your word. I know just as well as you do, she is innocent of the evils you have claimed. She is joined by many others you have falsely accused. The calamity you have begun will soon see a sizable number of people hanged in the name of your “divine purification”. I cannot vouch for the purity of this village, but I know that the evils at play here are motivated by your own vendetta against my wife, and not by the wicked hand of some Antichrist. As the one who surely instigated your madness, I beg you, do not plunge Salem into this unholy paranoia. I was told of your peculiar gathering in the woods with the slave Tituba and the other young girls of Salem, and I ask you to end whatever black magic you’ve been seeking. Regardless of whether or not your claims of possession are genuine, I realize your true motives. My actions were abominable, and I am sorry. I understand your outrage, for I feel it against myself in every day. Though punishing me by calling upon malevolent forces to harm my wife brings abuse to a soul who was guilty only of trusting me. Wishing suffering upon Elizabeth will not return me to the man who had affections for you while she was away. …show more content…

Very few hands in this village are clean of sin, but none have transgressed so greatly as to warrant a noose. While I cannot say that those you have condemned are all of pure and virtuous standing, they are at least guiltless of the transgressions you have placed upon their heads. A great number of clean-handed men and women will hang at your word already, there is no need to increase such a multitude of unlucky souls. If you have quarrel with any, let it be myself; not with Elizabeth, and not with the people of

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