Discrimination In The Crucible

In 1692 a group of teenage girls sent nineteen people to their graves. The book The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is a dramatized story telling of the Salem Witch Trials; one of the most well-known events in American history. It takes place in the strictly Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts. The Puritans strongly believed that Satan was real, and that he could lure anyone into temptation. They were a very superstitious and disapproving people. Things such as dancing or failing to attend church were punishable offences, and the offenders often took their consequences in the form of public humiliation. When the Puritans couldn’t find the cause of something they would almost always blame the devil. When girls started accusing women of bewitching them, the whole …show more content…
It was easier for her to tell a lie and accuse someone else, than admit to what she had done and pay the consequences. It was also easy for the people to accept Abigail’s accusation because Tituba was a colored slave from Barbados. Abby had known Tituba for a long time; and it took a heartless person to accuse such an innocent person. The other girls in Abby’s group also had a say on who they accused of witchcraft, but Abby was undoubtedly their leader and she threatened to silence anyone who went against her. Abby said to the girls, “Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black stone of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” She was merciless and she encouraged them to keep up their charade. The girls treated the witch trials as a game. They thought it was fun to have all the attention on them. Abby brought the other girls along with her as she went about her own narcissistic agenda. Abigail never showed remorse for anything she had