The Crucible, to page 49

Quote 1:
"I mean it solemnly, Rebecca; I like not the smell of this "authority" (Miller 31).

Analysis 1:
Miller uses Proctor as the embodiment of the modern day response to Salem in the 1600's. In today's world, many Americans are having sex shoved down their throats through the media and have grown comfortable to certain degrees of laziness. The present day individual would lash out against the constricting society which they would be confined to. In the same light, Proctor rebukes the concept of mass hysteria which everyone around him seems to grow progressively more involved in.

Quote 2:
"I do believe somebody else be witchin' these children" (Miller 45).

Analysis 2:
Miller uses Tituba as a societal critique and demonstrates the absurdity of the witch trials. Tituba is the only known individual who has been born abroad. Therefore she is able to objectively view this cultural hysteria as a game. She originally tries to deny the accusation as honestly as fate would have it. Tituba realized her control over the questions she was being asked and twisted them to her liking. Just as Tituba realized, the reader is also supposed to see that honesty truly does not work in that society and the hysteria breeds complusive lying.