Confession In The Crucible

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“The Crucible”

Do you ever wonder why never expected any excuse other than the confessions?. Judge Danforth is more to blame than marry warren, because he thinks what’s going on the girls are true, He doesn’t listen to anyone, and his bias favor for Abigail Williams.

Marry warren one of the girls that knows this witchcraft nonsense isnt real didn’t want too help john proctor because she knoows if she tells them that they are faking it, abigail will accuse her and theres the one shot they have. But John then forces her and tells her that he loves elizabeth and wants her back. As the story goes on they try to covince to court that the girls are corrupted and want the attention, but once they start telling them that what the girls say and see are just fake, judge danforth denys the fact that they are faking and tells marry to faint, she told him that she cant. Danforth then says not even fake, she then said no.

Judge danforth is a person that doesn’t care about anything, he only cares what the girls say. Abigail went around accusing people that loved her, yet she still wanted the attention so she accused more people, even goody proctor. Abigail said that she has a poppet and then needle that was in there was put in there into abigail. While they tried to free some of the people danforth wouldn’t listen to anyone that was trying to help john. Danforth wanted to see if goody proctor

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