Crucible
The Puritan society in the book, The Crucible, is shown to be very strict and corrupted. The girls looking for some one to blame for their own wrong doings and for a way to get want they want, cried witch craft and with out barely putting up a fight they got away with it. Everyone who was not blamed or by any way directly affected by the girls crying out witch craft believed them and really never doubted. Even though the bad spirits could not be seen by anyone, most of the society still believed the girls story and now were against John and Elizabeth and all the others who were charged of witch craft. Arthur Miller, in The Crucible, uses Danforth to expose the gullibility of the Puritan society. Danforth form the get go never doubted that the girls were lying. He believed that the girls would not lie because if they were to lie they would be sinned. " Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trails is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children(88)? " God is talking to us through these children; they are not liars, they are the chosen is what Danforth really believed. Danforth for no
t even a split second thought that maybe the girls were lying, and he was not going to let any one come into the court and say other wise. When John Proctor brought Mary Warren to the court, and Mary admitted that she and the girls lied, Danforth still could not believe that the girls could have lied, " Indeed not, but it strike hard upon me that she will dare come here with such a tale (89), " Danforth sais about Mary. Danforth now starts to believe that maybe John Proctor had threatened and put Mary Warren up to coming to the court and saying that she and the girls had lied. " I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me (91). " No matter what evidence Danforth was shown, or what he would have been shown he never would of convicted the girls of lying. He was sure that the girls were being haunted by the spirits of the "Devil", and these spirits were sent to haunt them by Elizabeth, Rebecca Nurse, and all of the others who were convicted. The girls after hearing that Mary Warren had said that the girls crying witch craft was all pretense, came in the court room and in front of Dan
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Approximate Word count = 775
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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