Modern Day Witches In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

In modern day witches are thought of as ugly, gruesome creatures with green wrinkled skin and yellow teeth. They carried around a wooden broomstick that was their main form of transpiration. The difference modern day witches and witches from the late 1600s is they were thought to be anyone who was unfaithful to the church or did the Devil's work and looked exactly like a regular person, no gross skin or yellow teeth just an everyday human. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible these witches were just like any ordinary person, throughout the play everyone begins to blame problems of Salem on this idea of witchcraft. everyone turning against each other just make sure they are safe from the executions in the village. The unjustified deaths in Salem

She first lied about what had happened in the woods, only calling it “sport”. After she lied about that it became one lie after another in order to save her good name in the town. She threatens the girls with, "Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you"(Miller 20). If there

During court Danforth's beliefs and his loyalty to the law get too closely intertwined. He says "Do you know, Mister Proctor, that the entire contention of the State in these trials is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children?"(Miller 88). When he says this he is bringing religion into civil matters, which makes everything more complicated. Everyone starts to go off their beliefs instead of the law which will lead to many immoral deaths. In additon he knew that what he was doing could be wrong or quite risky. In court he says, "Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims--and they