Crucible Blog #2

The trials that we have studied thus far in The Crucible are based on illogical fallicy due to the fact that the accusers contain no true evidence. All that is used in court to decide whether the women are innocent or guilty are stories. Stories in which the people of Salem could have easily made up in order to avenge such women whom they may have had problems with in the past. Due to this unfair system, it is quite possible that many of the lives that were taken during the Salem Witch Trials were those of innocent and wrongly accused women. This realization lead me to the conclusion that Arthur Miller's message on truth may have simply been that it is often irrelevant. The aspect of truth may be seen this way when manipulation is put into action and those involved pay more attention to what could possibly help them than letting the truth be known. If truth were a major component in the court system, people would not get away with wrongfully accusing others and innocent lives would not be taken.