Essay on The Crucible Thesis

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Firstly Putnams were playing quite a major role, as seen in Act 1 that Mrs Putnam resorted to witchcraft to find out who killed her seven babies when they where not even 1 day old. She was already suspecting that somebody murdered them and not by any illness or disease which then led to her confirming her guesses of who her the witches, one of which is Goody Osburn. Also in act 3, it was stated that Giles Corey that he murder his neighbours for their land accused Mr Putnam by asking Ruth to accuse people for him.

Secondly, Parris was quick to make bad remarks of someone he dislike which when presented in the court, an example would be John Proctor when he tried to help save his wife and friends, Parris pass judgements like “They have come to overthrow the court!” trying to win favour of the judges and at the same time get rid of the people who are against him. He was also scared that he will lose his job as minister and hid the fact that the girls were dancing in the forest so that the members of public will not have a reason to doubt that Parris was sent down from god to guide them.

Thirdly, would be Danforth and Hathorone. Both of them were the judges for this proceeding. They were the best judges in the province and therefore had a lot of pride in them. When the witch trials just started, they convicted many people, but that was not their fault, as any other judge would mistake Abigail as God’s instrument for the fact that they lack evidence. But at Act 3,