Crucible+Judge+Danforth

 ||﻿ ||﻿ || "I should be confounded were I called upon to defend these people". "The pure in heart need no lawyers". ||   **Deputy Governor Danforth**
 * ** Judge Danforth ** ||  ||
 * Main motivation || The Deputy governor. Main motivation is to root out witchcraft and maintain the religious order in Salem
 * Main conflict || Secretly knows that the witch trials in Salem are all a lie yet will not release the prisioners because he is afraid of being viewed as weak - his reoutation undermined. ||
 * Personality || Pretentious and selfish judge who is very controlling
 * Effect on plot || When John Proctor is trying to defend Elizabeth for being a witch, Danforth refuses to believe him because he thinks the community will view him as weak.
 * Quote || "Hang them high over the town".
 * Role in the conflicts || He sentences innocent people to hang and refuses to believe the evidence given by John Proctor, Mary Warren and Hale. ||
 * Serious,intelligent, assertive of his authority
 * The human face ofGod’s justice
 * Devises the testof Proctors honesty – if his wife admits her husband “ ... has known AbigailWilliams”. This taints Proctor’s evidence against the character of Abigail
 * Refuses toapprove pardons or postponements ofexecution because to do so would be to flout God’s law – religious conflict
 * Compassionate forthose touched directly or indirectly by the courts in which he presides

**Hathorne**
 * Believes inuncompromising authority
 * Believes in thereality of witches in Salem
 * The coldrepresentative of blind justice; dominated by rules and procedures
 * Does not want toresolve the conflicts
 * He has anuncompromising belief in the reality of witches
 * In the ability ofthe court process to discover them
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In seeking touncover evil, he becomes its embodiment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Without judgeslike him, no court could embark upon anywitch hunt