The legal system should be trusted to determine guilt or innocence. In my first anticipation guide I found this to be true, but after reading The Crucible I completely changed my mind. I think that the courts should be trusted to an extent. I believe this because the courts are run by humans and humans make mistakes. I also thing that humans are capable of being corrupt and evil. I think the court could interpret information in a wrong way. The Crucible has a setting in a place that is very religious. The people live in a theocracy, which means that the government and the church are one in the same. The courts in Salem made a lot of rash decisions based in religion and not enough evidence. Many people were hanged in The Crucible. The people were hanged because they were “witches”. The courts in Salem did not have any fool proof evidence of the existence of witches, but they believed in it anyway. …show more content…
This is the biggest reason I think the legal system should not be trusted to determine guilt or innocence. I is so easy to lie to someone which is what I think happened in The Crucible. I think every person was lying in one form or another to prove innocence. At one point in the book, the judge was going to let John Proctor confess to his crimes and then he was going to let him go. That is no way to run a court. The judge should not let a person who is convicted of something just sign a piece of paper and have everything be fine. I do not think Proctor should have been hanged. Yes, he did some unfavorable things, but nothing worth killing him