![]() According to Giles, Thomas Putnam is standing by watching people be hanged because it will benefit him and he can buy up all the land. This man is killing his neighbors for their land! ” (Miller 186). Giles explained that “if Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property–that’s law! And there is none but Putnam with coin to buy so great a piece. ![]() He was also there to discuss that Thomas Putnam’s daughter was falsely accusing George Jacob so that Mr. He was curious about why she enjoyed books so much, unfortunately he said it out loud one day and they… come and take her out of my house” (Miller 182). Giles explained that he “never had no wife that be so taken with books. Giles, an elder in the town showed up in Judge Danforth’s court to explain a misunderstanding about his wife who was now being convicted of being a witch. However he did struggle with justice and especially Giles Corey. He represents the God given right of the Puritan law to make sure justice is served. Danforth believes he… “does not let anything interfere with an exact loyalty to his position and his cause” (Miller 182). Judge Danforth is a powerful man who comes to Salem to stop the hysteria and prosecute the witches. Judge Danforth a senior judge during the Salem witch trials exposes his hypocrisy in his conflicts between Giles Corey, Mary Warren and the people of the town for the sake of his own reputation. ![]() In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, the people of Salem are in a crisis and sometimes people who claim to be good aren’t what they seem and may be in fact a hypocrite. Hypocrisy in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” ![]()
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