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12 October, 22:33

Act 3 begins with Martha Corey telling the court that she is not a witch, but Judge Hathorne asks her "How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?" What is strange about this logic?

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  1. 13 October, 01:10
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    This is unusual because one is more likely to be not a witch than be one as no one knows what makes a witch for certain.

    Explanation:

    In Act 3 of the play Martha Corey must tell the court and convince them that the allegation against her for being a witch is false.

    She does this by giving her logic the way she can but is asked this bizarre question "How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?".

    The fault in the question is that by probability one cannot know someone to be a witch by guess because witches do not exist or as they believed in their time were rare.

    So, for a woman to be declared one, the court would need definite proof for it to be true.
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