Can you tell me about the common man in The Crucible by Arthur Miller.I need a passage from the book, application of concept to passage and...

In Act I, Miller gives an account in narrative form of the
Puritan life. This life's common man held beliefs that cast great suspicion on any type
of vain pursuit, likewise, it positioned two men to wander the town during church who
maintained that people were not at work while the Sabbath was being celebrated. Here is
a passage that articulates their common values that impact us
today:

They
believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the
world. We have inherited this belief, and it has helped and hurt us. It helped them with
the discipline it gave them. They were a dedicated folk, by and large, and they had to
be to survive the life they had chosen or been born into this
country.

A couple of
paragraphs later, another paragraph begins with "The Salem tragedy." This will provide
similar traits of the common man.

We see these values at
work in the character of John Proctor who is referred to as hard-working, and often
leaves a scene to go work or cut wood. We see this with the pressing discipline of the
entire town to get to truth. They worked for it so hard that the truth that was right
under them could not be seen. The magistrates want to take every aspect of testimony, no
matter if real or not, as truth. The townspeople press on all the more to demonstrate
how the girls were not presenting truth. They thought they had a flawless religion, but
this incident reveals how religion can be taken to an extreme that hurts
people.

Act 3 demonstrates this clearly. Giles Corey,
Francis Nurse and John Proctor enter with real evidence for the court. The magistrates
want to listen to truth, but even though Giles presents a case, they won't hear it
because Giles won't turn on his source when he provides the most serious piece of
evidence stating that Putnam is trying to get George Jacobs
land:

GILES:
My proof is there! If Jacobs hangs for a witch, he forfeit up his property - that's law.
And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece. This man is killing
his neighbors for their land... The proof is there! I have it from an honest man who
heard Putnam say it! The day his daughter cried out Jacobs, he said she'd given him a
fair gift of land!