ble purpose of keeping the community together, the trials and the court that Abigail thus established was for the sole purpose of murdering Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail is not the only one guilty of using the witch–hunt as a means to establish their own means, but others such as Putnam, who used the trials as a means to get land, similarly were able overthrow the usual Salem–restrictive–society–moral–superiority–class and establish their own conception of conscience. "It suddenly became possible – and patriotic and holy – for a man to say that Martha Co
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