The Crucible Danforth Character Analysis

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Danforths Morality
\In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible judge Danforth is made out to be one of the bad guys in the play, however, this is not true. Danforth really didn’t do anything wrong. He really believed, to the day he died, that his actions were just, he was just doing his job and he was responding to a crisis and had to act quickly under great pressure.
Judge Danforth likely made many enemies after putting many people to death. While many people now view those put to death as innocent, Danforth firmly believed they were guilty of practicing witch craft and needed to be punished for not confessing their sins. Danforth was interviewed after the trials and said that what he did was the right thing to do. Religion was arguably the most …show more content…

The Salem witch trials are certainly considered a crisis, so who could blame Danforth for making some bad decisions under the pressure he had to work under? Imagine deciding the fate of many people when you believe the Devil is an immediate threat and could attack at any time and then on top of that, part of the town is pulling you one direction and the other part is telling you to go the other way. Danforth came into the case without knowing a majority of the townspeople, so he had no former knowledge of them and had only the information presented to him which, unfortunately for the accused, was mostly negative. He was bound to make some mistakes under that much pressure. Just to add to the pressure, Danforth didn’t have all year to decide if someone lived or died, he had to act quickly to ensure the safety of the townspeople.
Judge Danforth is made out as the antagonist in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. It is easy to view him as the villain as he puts many seemingly innocent people to death, but he really did nothing wrong. Danforth was just doing what he believed was right, he was simply doing his job and he had to work under incredible amounts of

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