The Crucible
Question 1, study guide?
"So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupt by wrong and deceitful ideas." What is the irony in the statement?
"So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupt by wrong and deceitful ideas." What is the irony in the statement?
The Witch Trials were both wrong and deceitful. That is the irony of the difference between their beliefs and their actions.