Hale: “We cannot blink it more. There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country” (Miller 98).

These are most reasonable word Hale as ever uttered ever since he was presented as a character. It is a distress that a court system will take the word of young girls with no credential as their justification to commit murder and to further indulge into a lie. In a court system that considers tangible evidence to be fabricated and the word witchcraft as proof that an innocent person was dancing with the Devil, it is then evident that most people would be scared to testify in court. Once the word witchcraft is said about someone it must be true, even if there is nothing that point to this so called sorcery. The whole court system is flipped on its head. The judicial system that was used to bring justice and peace among the people is now used to summon the wickedness in people. The court is used to carry out acts vengeance, jealousy. The most saddening thing about this is that the court is being used like a poppet to carry out the Devil’s work.

Parris: “He’s come to overthrow this court, Your Honor” (92).

Parris is relentlessly trying continue this witchcraft hysteria. Every time someone comes to court with some kind of evidence he tries to discredit it. He fears for his reputation and will not let anyone doubt the words of the young girl. When Mr. Nurse come with a list of people that testify that his with is a good woman, he gets nervous. This whole hysteria originated in his house and knows what the girls were really doing, and they were not witches to begin with. What shows that this town is reincarnating the Devil through their actions due to the lack of propriety some show for their neighbors. Many good people are being convicted of crime they did not commit while some just stand by and watch, like it was a show on television. The people have this irrational fear of the Devil because of it they disregard morality and logic in their witch hunt. The few who knows that this whole witch thing is false is using it to there advantage. The town needs to realize that when they sinned the Devil did not appear to them because he already lives within them.