Rebecca Nurse said ‘we should look to ourselves’ and ‘I do fear it’ as another character, Hale, is introduced. The first phrase suggests that the people should sort the situation out themselves rather than bringing in an external party as the phrase does say that the people of Salem should ‘look to themselves’. The ‘I fear it’ presents Hale as a character who would ruin the peace and life of people in Salem. This is shown with the emotion which Rebecca Nurse says the phrase with (which is fear). I believe that this is not a fear of Hale himself but of the actions he will take to try to sort out the situation.

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  1. How might your reading of Hale as an external party link back to our discussion based on outsiders and their apparent inability to approach a situation unaware of histories and prejudices? As an extension to this, how might this link to McCarthyism?

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