The Crucible presents a series of power plays between characters and groups of different status. Throughout the play, education, title, luck, age, gender, strength, wealth,
and social connectedness confer power on individuals. In this essay, you will examine
power brokerage-how characters get, use, and maintain power. Choose a major character
from The Crucible and using the "French and Raven's Five Forms of Power" article,
evaluate how that character assumes, utilizes, and maintains (or loses) power throughout
the play. What power bases do they use? How do they use them? Could they have used a
different power base to act with more humanity in the story and mitigate, or lessen, the
abuse of power by themselves or other characters in the play? In what ways do cultural
values or beliefs affect the ways characters use power or make choices? Make sure that
you refer to your character's development of power throughout the play. Cite your evidence
from at least two acts of the play. Make sure that all your assertions are documented by
correctly cited facts (quotations, paraphrases, and summaries of events/characters) from
your sources, and that all assertions are supported with the quotation and your rationale.
The rationale should back up, or support, your assertion(s). Write your essay for a
well-educated person who is familiar with The Crucible but hasn't read French and Raven's
article.

the answer would be: it explains that at least one son must join the church

the expression ''as the tithe of his sons'' indicates how his father intended for at least one of his sons to serve the church. this phrase demonstrates that his father offered him as a last resort since none of his brothers chose to serve the church.

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.