The Crucible Act 2 Constructed Response

Answers the meaning of the speech and how the speech typical of the Puritan beliefs at the time “Proctor, I cannot think God be provoked so grandly by such a petty cause. The jails are packed-- our greatest judges sit in Salem now-- and hangin’s promised. Man we must look to cause proportionate. Were there murder done, perhaps, and never brought to light? Abomination? Some secret blasphemy that stinks to Heaven? Think on cause, man, and let you help me to discover it. For there’s your way, believe it, there is your only way, when such confusion strikes upon the world. Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all. I shall pray God open up our eyes” (174).