Elizabeth is a good woman, confident in herself, aware of
her own faults and yet moral in her own right.
She
understands that John has cheated on her, but she confesses to having led him astray by
keeping a cold house or cold presence in her relationship to him. She deprived him of
intimacy.
By the end of the book, she sees that John has
indeed "got his goodness now" as he feels like by not lying about being involved in
witchcraft he is doing right by his God. If he is to be hanged, he feels it justified
maybe on another level as he knows he deserves punishment for the sin of
adultery.
Her knowledge of her driving him to cheat is a
great example of insight into herself.
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