Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?
“You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.”
Danforth is talking to Francis. Francis guaranteed that no harm would come to the people that signed the paper, but now those people will have to go to court because of him and possibly be convicted of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteDanforth is talking to Francis. He guaranteed whoever signed this paper, that no harm will come to them, but later they will have to go to court to be convicted of witchcraft.
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