Examples Of Justice In The Crucible

This play was a fine way to show how justice system was unfair and the terrible events that happened in Salem. I am going to talk about some of differences from then and today. How people was treated was inhumane. This was a terrible time in which the justice system failed to help those who needed it most. The justice process back in Salem was way different than it is today. In Salem all you had to do to get someone put in jail or put to death was accuse them of witchcraft. This happened on page 1287 when all the girls started calling names, then, just like that Puttnam says “The Marshal, I’ll call the marshall” (Miller 1287). They would be arrested immediately and put in jail till trial. The accuser was never asked any questions till the trial. Many people got locked up for no reason and had little …show more content…
It was a terrible period in our history. They killed many innocent people and truly messed up families lives. However, years later they seen how wrong they was and tried to make up for it. They started paying money towards the families that lost a loved one to these trials. No, it did not bring back their loved ones, nor did it fill the empty space but that is what they thought was the right thing to do. This was an unjust system. They treated people poorly. Bad thing was it was people who was good citizens and who helped in the community. However, all that goodness was just forgotten about and they was thrown to the dogs. They gave the people little hope of walking out alive. They could either lie and disgrace their name and live, become pregnant, or run away. Very few got their freedom back, most accepted their fate. The best representation of this was at the end of the movie version of the Crucible, when John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey are standing with the noose around their necks and the started saying the Lord’s prayer knowing that they was going to see the eternal