It is absolutely surprising that Rebecca Nurse is charged with witchcraft because, as Miller writes when he introduces her and her husband, "the general opinion of her character was so high [...]." She is widely known to be pious and humble and godly. Her mere presence is enough to quiet Betty Parris who is strangely sick in bed. She insists that if there is some problem in Salem then the townspeople should examine themselves to learn its...
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