Arthur Miller's play The Crucible demonstrates the craziness that occurred in Salem in 1692. Althoughthe play is fiction, Miller based the plot of his play on verifiable occasions and his characters demonstrate how suspicion and dread can raise. Various characters utilized this dread to profit and they showedselfishness and wrongdoing. The two most wretched characters in the play were Rev. Parris and JudgeDanforth. From the earliest starting point of the play, Rev. Parris showed self-centeredness. Rev. Parris was concerned more for his own status in the town than even the strength of his little girl in Act I. WhileBetty lay oblivious in bed, Parris ponders "a group that is vowed to drive *him+ from *his+ lectern (Mill operator 10). He