The Crucible, by playwright Arthur Miller, tells the tale of the 1692 Salem witch trials and demonstrates how the turbulent time was increased by the vindictiveness of the people of Salem, even before the event of witchcraft. The defensive, insidious ways of the girls, under the manipulative control of Abigail Williams was responsible for creating the mass hysteria and paranoia that blinded the small religious town in Massachusetts and forced them to falsely prosecute and hang …showed first 75 words of 1050 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1050 total…discovery and doing. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller highlights how the adult populace of Salem was just a responsible for the witch trials as were the girls, under the manipulative control of Abigail. The consequences of the actions made extended well past their own existences and into the lives of the innocent. The witchcraft was not the catalyst though, as the inevitable quarrels in the community became the metaphorical finger that pushed the dominos over.