This story is very accurate about the witch-hunts and the Puritans, and the characters are remarkably real. Abigail Williams, for example, is a young teenage girl who let lust for power and desire get the best of her. Being one of the main characters, Abigail is the least complicated. She is clearly the villain of the story; she tells lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to hang. The people of the town once shunned her because they had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor. Abigail now finds that she has influence over peo

The Crucible is obviously a fictional retelling of the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century. This is a very important theme, because In Salem back then, everything and everyone belongs to either God or the Devil; to differ is not simply illegal, it is associated with satanic activity. As Danforth says, "a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it."

This story has a few themes that are revealed through the actions and thoughts of the characters. One topic that I felt had an impact on the outcome of the story is suspicion can produce panic, which results in the destruction and breakdown of the town and its people. All the people of the town are Puritans. The Puritans are very religious; they believe in God and everything he did for them. They believe in a choice in which God has no responsibility or obligation to save anyone, no matter how little the problem is. The Puritans use this during the witch trials in which they hanged many people that they thought were not innocent to witchcraft. These hangings happened because everyone believed everything the girls said. This is also an important fact about the townspeople; they believed the girls because in their religion it is sin to lie, and if a puri

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