Heads tilt down to the ground and most people wince away at the sight of three suspected witches taking their final breaths before being brutally and wrongfully hanged. The witch trials that tore through Salem in 1692 turned many of the townspeople against each other, bringing out courageous traits in many of them that they would not have previously revealed. Citizens, once highly respected, now sit in jail and wait for a verdict. Tituba and Mary Warren both use their newly appointed power to improve their lives and reputation. Abigail Williams, the fierce niece of Reverend Parris and who had a brief affair with John Proctor, decides to use her leverage in the town to wrongfully accuse others of witchcraft. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller,
