Friday, October 11, 2013

What are the differences in manner between Judge Hathorne and Danforth?

There is not much in way of specific differences in both
judges.  Yet, one of the most striking is how they both seem to approach the questioning
of their power.  Hathorne does not take real well to anyone who should question the
procedures of the court.  The testy exchange between he and Corey is evidence of this. 
There is some level of personal animosity between them, something that Corey thinks will
be absent because of his own background with Danforth's father.  Yet, while there is a
personal element to Hathorne, Danforth sincerely believes, or purports to believe, that
the questioning of the court is not an attack on him as much as it is on the legal
condition of the trials, in general.  Danforth continually grills Proctor on his desire
to bring down the court.  Proctor, for his part, simply wishes to clear his name and
focus the trials on their weak evidential nature.  Yet, Danforth successfully goads
Proctor into admitting that there is another motivation in his questioning.  In this,
Danforth is shown to be more concerned with the overall nature of the court, something
into which he has absorbed his own identity, making him slightly different than Hathorne
in this respect.

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