Реферат: The Crucible Reasons Innocent People Confessed To

Another way to get yourself out of trouble was to point fingers at someone else. If you

were accused and you just said that you saw someone else with the Devil you never got thrown

in jail or hanged. Abigail was the first to be accused of witchcraft, but as soon as she had the

opportunity she accused as many other people as she could. At the right time Abigail decided to

divulge about her encounters with the Devil, but immediately accused someone else before the

people realized she was confessing herself. ?I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I

want the sweet love a Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to

Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I

saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!? (1060). With that she got herself off the hook and was no

longer thought of as a witch or bad person. Thomas Putnam also pointed fingers at other people

when in fact he was the actual man of evil. Thomas Putnam wanted people to die so he could

take their land. Giles Corey was the man that found this out and presented it to the court. When

they asked where he got his information from he would not say. Therefore Giles was pressed to

death. This is another example of honest dying and evil living.

The sheer fact that innocent people died and guilty people lived is mind-boggling. What

makes it worse is that after they realized that all the accusations were false they tried to

compensate for the lives lost. How can you compensate for a dead person, that died for no good

reason? There is no way that can be done. Therefore the judicial system during the Salem

Witch Trials should of not listened to all the hysteria and followed along with the finger

pointing. Instead they should have convicted the guilty from the start, commencing with Abigail

Williams.