Both Uses of
autocracy
in
The Crucible
- Massachusetts tried to kill off the Puritans, but they combined; they set up a communal society which, in the beginning, was little more than an armed camp with an autocratic and very devoted leadership.
p. 6.3autocratic = centralized (governed by a single individual)
- It was, however, an autocracy by consent, for they were united from top to bottom by a commonly held ideology whose perpetuation was the reason and justification for all their sufferings.
p. 6.4 *autocracy = a political system governed by a single individual
Definition:
a political or managerial system governed by a single individual