In the historical-fiction play about the Salem Witch Trials, The Crucible, written by the American playwright, Arthur Miller, a universal truth, “something is not necessarily true because a large group of people believe that it is”, is told through the words of Miller. This theme applies to both fictional and real life examples because everybody has some sort of an opinion. With an opinion, some people agree while others disagree. Because opinions are not facts, several people can concur with an opinion, even if it is not true. For example, in The Crucible Reverend Parris, a Salem minister, says on page nine, “There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly[, an expert in the demonic arts,] and Mr. Hale will …show more content…
Reverend Parris does not believe this, and the audience knows that the real reason Betty is not waking up is that she is in shock after Parris scared her while she and the other girls were dancing in the woods. Also, the Act One FYI states, “Although the Puritans were forbidden to indulge in supernatural practices, there is ample evidence that suggests that they had an almost obsessive interest in the occult. The public record is full of incidents in which members of the Salem community are reprimanded for practicing palm reading and other methods of fortune telling, even though such activities were considered to be trafficking with the devil.” The context of this passage is that the Puritans went to witchcraft to explain something out of their vague beliefs. Even though all the Puritans believed in witchcraft, their false claim came from the very little, nonsense, and bias evidence they had. Some examples of this universal theme in the real world are the Holocaust and the Titanic. According to Hitler, the Aryan race was the best and strongest race while Jews were of an inferior