man and no gentleman, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat" ( I. v. 47). There is also Mary Warren, Proctor's servant who he ill treats. So its quite normal for them to simulate new realities of their own to colonize the realities founded by a puritan society ( Baudrillard, par 11). For Frayn, simulation and representation are opposites. In representation there is distinction between real things and their copy, so there is distinction between image and reality. On the contrary simulation does not recognize this distinction. It involves the idea that the copy is of another copy not reality. The mind witches, which are coming from the folk tales are reflected on real characters in The Crucible like Elizabeth who is perceived as a witch (Frayn 103). Accordingly, regardless of the girls' intentions, they have felt and experienced what they pretend to encounter and as a result they behaved as enchanted and their victims as witches. In fact they stopped seeing themselves as …show more content…
He perceives the court as the highest authority, so he would not permit people to criticize the way he runs it. Anyone who dares to speak against the legitimate power they are accused of witchcraft (Bly 50-55). Therefore the first thing he is concerned about when Proctor comes to the court with Mary that Proctor does not undermine ( Danforth's domain). " I come not to hurt the court" (III. i. 92). Parris tries to convince judge Danforth to put off the death sentences but Danforth denies him his appeal. Danforth suspects he might have made a grave mistake but he keeps the hanging proceedings as they are nonetheless, for if he chooses to listen to Parris' advice, thus he allows the people to question the integrity of his authority , the court and the church, and that is something he would not permit to happen ( Brown