Back in the day when people were scared of everything, people could blame others without any proof and the accused would be killed. Why was this? It was because people were guilty until proven innocent. They did this because they were scared of the unknown. They just wanted to live a perfect life and go to heaven without anything getting in their way. The Deputy Governor of Massachusetts is Judge Danforth and is the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupulous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft. Danforth did this because he wanted each person that was found the guilty until proven innocent because he wanted every guilty person innocent or not, to confess. There are proof’s that this happens because the accused have no other option but to confess or have their name posted around town and have it tainted by false accusations.
Some people just did not want to hear anything but what their own thoughts perceived as their own truth. So they were ignorant in a way to not be
lieve the innocent parties pleads for a review of the evidence. There was one problem though, the evidence that the Plaintiffs had put on weren’t enough to convict somebody. “Your excellency, I only said she were reading’ books, sir, and they come and take her out of my house for-” Giles(86). Right there as one could see that people were so afraid of the unknown that they condemned a woman for reading a book. The defense could not stand a chance against these accusations. “Excellency, he claims hard evidence for his wife’s defense. I think that in all justice you must-” Hale (86). Another example of how the innocent people had to come up with evidence that proves that they were innocent.
People back then didn’t understand some concepts that we have today, they were clouded by thoughts and premonitions that if they do everything perfectly they would go to heaven, but they didn’t realize that they weren’t perfect, nobody was perfect. Only God is perfect, and they all themselves committed a sin by trying to be perfect, which i
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