So the very thought of a witch, someone who had infiltrated a virtuous community to advance her own sinister agenda, struck fear into the hearts of every Puritan who actively subscribed to the religious teachings of the time. Once again, in Salem, the polar opposite perspectives of light and darkness, God and Lucifer, purity and corruption, are responsible for the extremity of the situation; the same desire to rid the community of a culprit, this time without knowing it, together with the apparent conformity of the entire city, built the recipe for the terror and hysteria that accompanied the trials. Miller expounds this idea, reporting that “Thus now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its liberty, lest their New Jerusalem should be tainted and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas” (Miller 5). This comment directly reflects the xenophobia present in Salem at the time of the trials, as the community's apparent desire to purge itself essentially echoes the emergence of foreign concepts of individuality and religious independence. Furthermore, such foreign concepts are reflected in Paris' belief that "there is a wide opinion circulating in the parish that the Devil may be among us, and I would like to convince them that they are wrong" (Miller 27). Paris, perceiving "the Devil", serves as a perfect example of how the constant diversification of