Abigail's Perceptions In The Crucible

As Junior expresses his awareness of his new classmate’s perception of him, it becomes clear that those perceptions overshadows Junior’s reality. These boys’ relationship with Junior is simultaneously aggressive and hesitant. They are comfortable verbally abusing him, though they draw a line at physical violence out of their fear of him, or rather what they think he is and what they think he could be. Their perception fuels their apprehension and overrides how they can see with their own eyes that Junior is not threatening or harmful by convincing them that due to the fact that he is Indian he is unpredictable and could become violent. In reality however, both Junior and all who know him are aware of how defenseless and weak he actually is …show more content…
The court perceives their town leader, the head of the church, Reverend Parris, as undoubtedly innocent because of his position as a man of God. In essence, through the implied promise of strict adherence to the word of God, he is absolved of the possibility of reasonable doubt in the face of crime. The court perceives Abigail’s innocence through her premise of purifying the town, that her actions are all in the interest of a greater good, and so by using her experiences and actions and distorting them to achieve martyrdom, she becomes so holy to the town of Salem, they refuse to believe she would be at fault. John Proctor calls attention to this hypocrisy by reminding the court essentially that is always true that all humans can and do sin, and that neither Parris nor Abigail are exempt from that truth, and so, refusing to hold an unbiased trial for those accused of witchcraft, they are handing to much power to the unbalanced biases a court of justice is expected to …show more content…
He had arrived in Salem to do the Lord’s holy work, and he brought with him only the best and purest ideals of the religion he preaches in order to save the townspeople, yet those gifts he was confident in caused death and the wrongful spilling of blood. In confessing that he caused the tragic outcomes because he advocated for the presence of the Devil in Salem while he remained silent and willfully ignorant of the plausible doubt of the accused's guilt, he called for the evil within himself and the members of the town to