The Salem Witch Trials In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

In the United States there is a law that states "Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty,” Title II, Chapter 1, Article 29. This law it allows the people to fight for what they were accused of until either proven guilty or proven innocent. Unfortunately, this does not stop people from making up answers to crime that they accused just to get answers. People want the answers now, so they will believe anything that they hear. If someone is accused, but did not confess they will pressure them to confessing, even if they didn't do the crime. This happens in the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The idea of people doing witchcraft had been spreading throughout the town of Salem; witchcraft was not allowed and anybody doing witchcraft

He spends all of this time trying to figure out everybody who was involved that he forgot how to act humaine. Hale is very vulnerable to this which makes it hard to see that not everybody is involved. When he first starts out with the witch trail it is all he can think about day and night. He goes from house to house trying to see who could possibly be part of such heinous thing. When Hale goes to Proctor's house he comes and questions Proctor and everything that has happened to his family, “ God keep you both; let the third child be quickly baptized, and go you without fail each Sunday in to Sabbath prayer; and keep a solemn, quiet way among you,” (II.). Reverend Hale goes to the Proctor home to question John and Elizabeth to see if they had anything to do with the witchcraft. He was very skeptical of them because they did not go to church nor was their third child baptists. Hale went all over town trying to get people to confess and if they did not he would then write up a death certificate for them to be

When Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor, and Martha corey were all accused of witchcraft and witchcraft-related offences, did Hale start to lose his faith and everything that he had worked hard for. Hale went to the court and said, “Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it”(III). When Hale goes to Danforth he asks for the death warrants to be removed because he had signed to many, however Danforth doesn't agree and is keeping the death warrants in place. Hale realizes that because he stepped down he can't change them and go under Danforth's position. Hale tries his best to get them removed, but he can't so now he will do everything he can to try and make them confess. Hale was banned from going to see Rebecca nurse, Proctor's wife, and martha corey, but he goes and prasy with them because it is the least he can do, now that they are going to get hung because of him. He tries to get them to confess because if they confess then they won't be