Mrs. Putnam: 'The Devil's touch is heavier than sick. It's death y'know, it's death driving into them, forked and hoofed.'

Language such as this conveys to the audience the setting and the strong religious and supernatural believes of the people of Salem. The heavy influence of death and the Devil create tension in their own right, but it become even more unsettling to hear such a strong use of imagery and language demonstrating the people's absolute and unquestioning belief in the Devil and witchcraft before anything else. Such a strong use of language coupled with the heavy religious overtones create the feeling, right for the start of the play, that the people speaking are irrational, and dangerously so.

Miller also can use the theme of witchcraft and Heaven vs. Hell to create scenes including vivid imagery. In Act 3 Abigail tells the court that she sees Mary Wa

Danforth: 'And how do you intend to help her cause with such contemptuous riot? Now be gone. Your old age alone keeps you out of jail for this...Do you take it upon yourself to determine what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside?' 'Disrespect indeed! It is disruption, Mister. This is the highest court of the supreme government of this province, do you know it?'

rren's spirit about to attack, in order to incriminate Mary. The image of a bird is introduced -

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