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What Does Proctor Believe Without Evidence In The Crucible

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"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller is about a village where people believe a lot in witchcraft, but things start to go crazy when they start accusing each other with no evidence or evidence that doesn't make sense, only because they don't like each other or because they want their lands, when people go to the jail they have two options, they can lie and confess witchcraft to don't die, or they can say the truth, don't confess and die. Because of that, Proctor, the main character, and his wife went to jail, the court saw that the people from the village were not believing too much in witchcraft, so they gave an option to Proctor, he could be free if he lied and confessed witchcraft for the village, but Proctor didn't lie, so they killed him. "The …show more content…

It shows us that the court does not care about what's going to happen with the other person, they don't care about the person's reputation, they just care about their selves, but one day is going to be late, just like what happened with Proctor. At the end of the story, the village was going to start to contest the court about witchcraft, because if Proctor, the main character and very influential, has been arrested for witchcraft, and dies saying the truth, so the village is going to know that witchcraft does not exist, what's very similar with the Scare, where a lot of accusations of communist were based with no evidence and the most important people were harmed and accused with no evidence, just like what happened with Proctor in "The Crucible", the author tells us "the committee employed several controversial methods to accomplish its goal of ferreting out suspected communists" (Subpoenas and

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