Living in a society that believes in witchcraft, being possessed by the devil, and the forest being demonic sounds crazy right? To the puritans of Salem in 1962 all of this was conventional, and they greatly believed in it. Although it was Miller’s job as a playwright to add drama to the story, the historic background of The Crucible is still factual, and actually did happen. The puritans completely devoted their lives to God. Whenever we read The Crucible we think that they’re all crazy for thinking that could happen, but are they really? We forget that that was their normal. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller takes historical facts and adds a dramatic twist on them. ”it is no coincidence that the Salem witch trials are best known today through the work of a playwright, …show more content…
. . When Arthur Miller published The Crucible in the early 1950s, he simply outdid the historians at their own game" (22). Miller told the story of the Salem witch trials in a way that drew people in. But because it’s a play, we think that those things couldn't have happened. “The Puritan lifestyle was restrained and rigid: People were expected to work hard and repress their emotions or opinions. Individual differences were frowned upon”. In the play, puritans were expected to go to church every sunday, know all the commandments, and devote your entire life to God. If you didn't do any of these things it was immediately assumed that you worshiped the devil. While reading this seems too dramatic, but they were actually that strict. “The Puritans believed that the Devil was as real as God and that those members of society who were the weakest at upholding Puritan values and morals, specifically women and children, would be selected to carry out his work” It’s hard to believe in our modern