Miller shows his integrity by this quote. The court system in America was failing in its duty to safeguard the system of justice by allowing McCarthy to ride rough shod over all authority. In this respect Miller’s determination to make a stand against corruption is epitomized by several characters in the play, for example John Proctor who shows him self to be a man of good character and an upstanding citizen who is looked up to by the other inhabitants. Although he had an affair with a young girl in his employ, Abigail Williams, he felt very guilty about it and tried to make amends by ignoring her and trying to be a good and loyal puritan husband. So he attempted, like Miller to be true to himself, and ultimately to his friends. He refused to lie about seeing Rebecca Nurse with the devil, and he also refused to admit to witchcraft, which led to his being hanged.

Miller was dragged into the spot light by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was put in the exact same place were Jo

The major phase of McCarthy’s career was mercifully short. It began in 1950, three years after he had taken is seat in the Senate, where he had seemed a dim and inconsiderable figure. It ended in 1954, when the Senate passed a resolution of censure against him. He died 3 years later, age 48. Both his rise and fall were accomplished at breath taking speed.

Abigail was an orphan, an unmarried girl; she therefore occupies a low rung on the Puritan social ladder in Salem.(The only people below her were the slaves, and social outcasts) Her hysterical accusations suddenly brought her power and respect and she took full advantage of it. A mere accusation from one of her troop was enough to incarcerate and convict even the most well respected inhabitants of Salem. During her short but relentless reign she managed to send 19 innocent people to their deaths, before running away with her uncle’s life savings and becoming a common prostitute in Boston.

The town’s people were weak and afraid because of their inherent belief in witches and the devil, and they also believed that the bible had instructed them to rid the earth of witches. They believed everything Abigail told them so were willing and eager to support her wild bid to rid them of witches.

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