How Did Martha Learn In The Crucible

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The people in Salem feared anything or anyone, who was involved with any changes towards the society. They excluded them and they were accused of witchery like Martha. At the end of Act two of “The Crucible” Martha was accused of being a witch, after Mr. Walcott testified against her for bewitching pigs with books. Giles Corey testified as well to Hale that Martha had been reading books, and her reading keeps him from praying. In page 37, Giles quoted ”Marth, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a corner, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that?” and “It discomfits me! Last night- mark this - I tried and tried and could not say my prayer. And then she closed her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly-