What Happened In The Crucible

Since The Crucible is based off of historical events, there are many stories as to how it happened. A town named LeRoy experienced similar things that Salem has. There were girls in both towns that were affected , once it was brought to people's attention the problems got bigger. When you lie about something and keep the lie going, it starts to become real and you will start to believe your lie. In both cases the whole town was affected, people were angry and they wanted to put an end to the problems.
The setting of The Crucible has a lot in common with LeRoy. Salem is a small town, everyone knows everyone. Word gets around really fast, when one person found out about the girls doing witchcraft everyone knew. once that happened people started to believed that they were actually being possessed by a dark spirit. In LeRoy when a couple of girls found out they had Tourette's like syndrome the whole town basically knew. In both cases problems became worse when everyone started finding out about …show more content…
Doctors examined the girls in LeRoy and they found nothing, the girls didn’t have a problem. In Salem a doctor examined the girls and also found out that there was nothing wrong with them. It seems that the girls are just playing a mind game. They are tricking themselves into believing that there is really something wrong. They are deep into the lies and many people have been dragged into it, it’s too late for them to tell the truth now. The whole town seems to feed into the girls drama and it just makes the effect stronger. Like in salem when the girls were caught in the forest people just assumed they were doing witchcraft, the situation was taken too far. The girls started to accuse innocent people. In LeRoy when a couple of girls came down with such a weird syndrome word got out and many people just started having the effects of the syndrome after that. The girls got too deep into the