The Crucible

In the Crucible Miller Reveals and explores the nature of and behaviour of a society in crisis and its effect upon individuals in that society. Discuss. To begin with, no one is one hundred percent sure that what Miller wrote is a correct and accurate view of how a society would act in a time of crisis. In the play itself Miller talks about some of the great influences upon himself at the time of …

…way the people of Salem lived that brought about its destruction. These factors are selfishness, fear, superstition and hysteria. We in today's society should really learn from Salem's experience, and realise that maybe the false accusations of the so called Weapons of Mass Destruction and so forth in Iraq, and all the other poor leadership being shown by some of today's world leaders could ultimately cost us all much more than we have bargained for.