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        <title><![CDATA[This line is spoken by Francis Nurse about his wife, Rebecca, as a way...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This line is spoken by Francis Nurse about his wife, Rebecca, as a way of defending her against charges of witchcraft.
The line is a metaphor meant to emphasize how important she is to the church.
If you think about an actual church builiding (especially in those days), it's made of brick and mortar.  Those are the things that form the walls of the church and make the church what it is.
So what he's saying about his wife is that she is...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does my wife is the very brick and mortar of the church mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does my wife is the very brick and mortar of the church mean?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am assuming that you are referring to the place in Act 3 where Corey...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am assuming that you are referring to the place in Act 3 where Corey makes an accusation against someone and not to any accusations that are made against Corey.
In Act 3 of "The Crucible," Giles Corey is trying to get his wife out of the trouble she's in.  She's been accused of witchcraft.  To try to get her out, he goes to the court and accuses Thomas Putnam of telling his (Putnam's) daughter to "cry witchery upon George Jacobs."  In...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:54:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What accusation does Giles Corey make?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What accusation does Giles Corey make?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:46:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1.   The near 100 people that signed a petition in the hopes of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1.   The near 100 people that signed a petition in the hopes of testifying to the good reputation of some women accused as witches were themselves all "arrested for questioning."  All these people wanted to do was let the courts know that they knew

"the women many years and never saw no sign they had dealings with the devil."

Ironically, these people, in an attempt to save these women from the accusation of witchcraft, are all themselves...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:16:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," by Arthur Miller, both Giles Corey and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," by Arthur Miller, both Giles Corey and Francis Nurse try to save their wives from being convicted of witchcraft.
Both Corey and Nurse go along with John Proctor, whose wife has also been accused, to the court.  With them, they take a petition that has been signed by ninety one members of the community.  All ninety one declare their "good opinion" of the three women.
However, it's no use. Instead of taking the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:52:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did Giles Corey and Francis Nurse try to save their wives?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did Giles Corey and Francis Nurse try to save their wives?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:47:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The only really ridiculous evidence I see being accepted in this act is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The only really ridiculous evidence I see being accepted in this act is the play acting of the girls towards the end of the act.  The "evidence" of the bird that Abigail sees is pretty ridiculous.  And more so, perhaps, is the "evidence" of the girls copying everything Mary says.
Reversals:
Proctor brings the petition with the 91 names on it.  Instead of helping, the petition gets the signers in trouble.
Mary Warren comes to recant her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:23:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The  main connection between greed and the witch hunt comes in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The  main connection between greed and the witch hunt comes in the person of Thomas Putnam.
We find out that many of the people who have been accused of witchcraft are people (like George Jacobs) with whom he has financial disputes.  We find out that he has put his daughter up to accusing Jacobs.  We also find out that if a person is convicted of witchcraft, their property gets auctioned.  As Giles Cory says, only Putnam has the kind of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:12:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mary Warren exhibits courage and integrity when she comes to the court...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mary Warren exhibits courage and integrity when she comes to the court to recant her testimony about people she had previously accused of witchcraft. Of course, by the end of the act her courage falters and she goes back to her originial testimony.
John Hale exhibits it when he goes against Danforth and starts to argue that Abigail is really a liar.
John Proctor shows these things when he comes and confesses to his adultery with Abigail.
Giles...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:08:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," What does greed have to do with the witch hunt?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," What does greed have to do with the witch hunt?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:03:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[(CRUCIBLE ACT 3) How do Mary Warren, John Proctor, Giles Gorey, and John...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[(CRUCIBLE ACT 3) How do Mary Warren, John Proctor, Giles Gorey, and John Hale exhibit courage and assert integrity in this act? Provice examples.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," what are three instances of irony?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act 3 of "The Crucible," what are three instances of irony?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:58:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crucible Act 3 - Examples of ridiculous evidence the court accepts? What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Crucible Act 3 - Examples of ridiculous evidence the court accepts? What are the three reversals that occurred in Act 3?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:55:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act III of "The Crucible," it is the court that gets to determine the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/crucible/q-and-a/crucible-act-3-what-truth-who-gets-determine-truth-113919</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Act III of "The Crucible," it is the court that gets to determine the truth.  That means, in effect, that Judge Hathorn and Deputy Governor Danforth get to determine the truth.
Why do they get to determine the truth?  Because they are the ones who wield the power.  It doesn't really matter what is really true.  They are looking at each case and asking themselves what is best for them (as individuals) and for the dignity and authority of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:35:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crucible Act 3. What is TRUTH? Who gets to determine the truth? why?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Crucible Act 3. What is TRUTH? Who gets to determine the truth? why? According to Proctor and Mary Warren, what's truth? Truth- (Danforth&amp;Abigail)]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/crucible/q-and-a/crucible-act-3-what-truth-who-gets-determine-truth-113919</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:18:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act I, Putnam and Proctor argue about quite a few things when they...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act I, Putnam and Proctor argue about quite a few things when they are all in Parris' house.  Most of these arguments include Parris.  But the one argument that is pretty much just between the two of them is the argument over the wood that Proctor says he's going to drag home.
They are arguing over whether the forest the wood comes from belongs to Proctor or to Putnam.
To me, this shows that Putnam is motivated largely by greed.  Later...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:42:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the play The Crucible, what do proctor and putman argue about? and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the play The Crucible, what do proctor and putman argue about? and what does this show?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:21:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The previous post is good. I'd like to add that, in the historical...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The previous post is good. I'd like to add that, in the historical Salem witch trials (as in The Crucible), the court admitted what they called "spectral evidence" as proof of someone's guilt. This evidence didn't have to take physical form. For example, for the judges, it was often enough that a young girl claimed that she was being pinched or tormented by the floating, non-physical form of the accused witch.
The admission of spectral...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:46:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main evidence that the court accepts for whether someone is a witch...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main evidence that the court accepts for whether someone is a witch (in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible") is the testimony of the girls lead by Abigail Williams.  When the girls shriek or faint or get cold or pretend to see a bird, that is seen as proof.
It also appears that you can get in trouble for the sorts of things Proctor does or doesn't do -- failing to remember all ten commandments, not coming to church enough.  Or what Elizabeth...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:35:16 PST</pubDate>
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