Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," is a great example of people and their struggle with peer pressure. The play takes place in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, a small puritan community based on a very harsh system of truthfulness. When Reverend Parris discovers some of the girls dancing in the forest around a cauldron, he suspects something is going on. Rumors start to go around town speaking of witchcraft. These witchcraft rumors finally create the …showed first 75 words of 736 total…

…showed last 75 words of 736 total…into doing all sorts of things. She is not a strong enough person to say no. But on the other hand there is also John Proctor who remained stronger that any and didn't confess to a lie and who stayed true to himself and others. Giles Corey also did the same thing, dying for what he believed in. In this book peer pressure is a serious thing, serious enough to cause so many to die.