The Crucible Belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case. The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is about the town of Salem, Massachusetts. A city of around 2,000 people where the witch trials started in 1692. Miller writes The Crucible and creates the argument that people's fears overrule evidence. Reverend Hale, a witch doctor called in to help from Parris because of the concern about the ongoing thought of witchcraft. Hale has a lot of experience with witchcraft and has signed over seventy-two death warrants; [he is] a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof” (Miller 99). Hale is scared of witchcraft and fears the Devil and the consequences that could come if he makes the wrong settlement about who the witch is. Hail starts to believe that the witch trials are not right and people who are innocent are being accused of witchcraft and are big questions just because of somebody suspecting something that there is not even factual evidence about. Elizabeth Proctor, the one centered around all of the witchcraft, is scared and feared after finding out about her husband, John Proctor's affair with Abigail Williams. Elizabeth is afraid that Abigail “things to kill …show more content…
John says “[he] will believe me, Mr. Danforth! [his] wife is innocent”(Miller 111). John is pleading his case and is doing everything in his power to prevent his wife from being convicted. There is one more piece of information that John has been hiding from the court which was his affair with abigail. The affair he had was for his wife's own good because he was trying to protect her from Abigail because she didn't like Elizabeth Proctor and she wanted her dead. John thought if he could get on Abigail's good side he and his wife would be protected from being questioned and convicted of being a