The Crucible: Henry Miller The Crucible is a book about the Salem witch trials. This books main theory is mob mentality; this book is also a response to the Red Scare. In this book a group of girls are caught participating in witch craft and end up convincing everyone in town they are just overtaken by the devil. Throughout the story they accuse other people of witchcraft which results in their death. I was interested in reading this book because last year we learned about the Salem witch trials and this book was mentioned. We learned about the era of accusing people without proof and how witchcraft was highly disapproved. I feel that this book was actually very entertaining, I was always wondering what would happened to the falsely accused and when Abigail Williams would be brought to justice. I thought that this book had a good balance of fact and fiction. This books starts off with Abigail Williams and a group of girls dancing with fire in the forest. They were creating “potions” to drink mixed with animal blood and other things. The minister of the town catches them and is appalled! Abigail and the girls know the punishment of witchcraft so they lie …show more content…
John quickly realized his mistake and dropped Abigail, but she still has feelings for john and refuses to believe anything else. John comes to Abigail to tell her to stop the foolishness she and the girls are doing. They are interrupted by the scream of the minister’s daughter. The doctor soon demands to talk to the house slave Tituba; she is beaten until she confesses to witchcraft. She never participated in such activities but decides to “confess” to stop the beating. Every time someone confesses to witchcraft they want to know the name of someone who also participates in such activities. This is what starts the whole mob mentality because people begin to randomly accuse people of witchcraft for their own