"This george was a man who, after a lifetime of doing down the widow and orphan, had begun to feel the strain a bit" 1. What is the meaning of this sentence.
2. Here, what does "doing down the widow and orphan" mean?

2.) widow and orphans are typographical terms for when a word is left on its own line at the start or end of paragraph

i would like to compare these two interpretations of the crucible : 1) eric christ's interretation and wade bradford's interpretation. the main differences between there interretaions is that in the first one you can notice direct link to joseph mccarthy whereas the second one represents how the town is filled with hysteria.the second interpretation shows that author believes that the story   about puritan town in salem is based on actual events while the first example shows the sencible reference to sort of bias.

men had a stronger claim to titles and wealth during the renaissance.