The Crucible

The purpose is to educate and display to the reader, the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that think it’s doing the ‘right’ thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. 1. Introduction: The play is based on the real life witch hunt that occurs in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the peoples fear of what they felt was the devils work and shows …

…mentality of the German people during the Holocaust”, and when I understood what he meant I say that it is a lot like the part in the movie Beauty and the Beast, when the character Gaston makes everybody crazy to kill the Beast just because Gaston feels that he is evil. The people did not think for themselves and belied someone else and because of that they almost killed the Beast, who was actually innocent.