There are very obvious reasons why this daily journal’s subject is on lying about what someone has done; it is what is happening right now in the crucible. People (the girls) are blaming all of their rivals of “witchcraft” and whatnot, even though it is obvious that they are innocent and they are only confessing because if they don’t they will die so they would rather be stuck in a jail cell for the rest of their lives than b hung. I think I would choose the same too. The justice system in this play is ridiculously horrible because there has only been word that people are witches but now hard evidence. I have not read act four yet, but I hope that the girls either admit to lying the whole time or that someone somehow finds out that they are running a fraud and they are brought to actual for what they have done to the town and its people.
When somebody lies about what somebody else did, they are either trying to blame something on somebody else so that nobody notices what they have done (for the Crucible they are trying to hide the fact that they were dancing naked in the woods and trying to “communicate with the devil”). Another reason that somebody might lie about what somebody did because they are looking for revenge, just like the whole plan that I assume that Abigail demised so that Elizibeth would be out of the picture and she would take her spot. Mary also might want reveng for how John Procter treated her around his house because even though she is not a slave, he constantly threatens to beat her and whip her if she does not follow his directions, like “stay at the house and leave for no reason”.
When the initial lie is exposed, it makes the person the lie was about look like a very good person because people feel bad for believing the rumors, and it makes the person who started the lie look like a person that has no moral compass or that is corrupted. Nobody will most likely ever believe them again, it is basically “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.
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