In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, everyone seemed fine in the beginning, but then tales become to unfold and lies are spilled. Deputy Governor Danforth oversees the witchcraft trials in Salem, as well as in other parts of Massachusetts. He likes to think of himself as fair-minded, so it disturbs and angers him to discover that people fear the court. Though Danforth initially demonstrates that he is all high and mighty and all knowing, he reveals that he would listen and consider what the people of Salem are saying.
Governor Danforth is approached by some of the people of Salem, that has the loved one accused of witchcraft, pleading for them to be let free. “Danforth: And how do you imagine to help her cause with such contemptuous …show more content…
In this part, Giles is pleading to Danforth telling him that people are telling lies about his wife because he doesn’t believe his wife is correlated with witchcraft nor does he believe it. “Proctor, handing Danforth a paper: Will you read this first, sir? It’s a sort of testament. The people signing it declare their good opinion of Rebecca, and my wife, and Martha Corey. Danforth looks down at the paper. Parris, to enlist Danforth’s sarcasm: Their good opinion! But Danforth goes on reading, and Proctor is heartened. Proctor: These are all landholding farmers, members of the church. Delicately, trying to point out a paragraph: If you’ll notice, sir-they’ve known the women many years and never saw no sign they had dealings with the Devil” (Miller 75). In this part, John hands Danforth a piece of paper containing a bunch of names agreeing to Rebecca and Martha Corey’s good name and saying they had no correlation with the Devil. “Proctor, his voice about to break, and his shame great: In proper place-where my beasts are bedded. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me in my house, sir. He has to clamp his jaw to keep from weeping. A man may think God sleeps, but Gods sees everything, I know it now. I