Act 3 begins with Martha Corey telling the court that she is not a witch, but Judge Hathorne asks her “How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?” What is strange about this logic?

This is unusual because one is more likely to be not a witch than be one as no one knows what makes a witch for certain.

Explanation:

In Act 3 of the play Martha Corey must tell the court and convince them that the allegation against her for being a witch is false.

She does this by giving her logic the way she can but is asked this bizarre question “How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?”.

The fault in the question is that by probability one cannot know someone to be a witch by guess because witches do not exist or as they believed in their time were rare.

So, for a woman to be declared one, the court would need definite proof for it to be true.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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