Abigail, the ringleader of the girls, admits to only dancing in the forest. Parris questions Abigail Williams, who is Parris’s niece, about the events that happened in the forest. Parris calls in witchcraft expert, Reverend Hale. Rumours of witchcraft start to float around the town while a herd gathers around Betty’s bed. Reverend Parris’s daughter, Betty, falls deep into a coma-like state. While dancing, Reverend Parris catches them. In The Crucible, a group of girls go dancing in the forest late at night with a Barbados slave Tituba. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that tells a partially fictionalised and dramatised story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 16. Examples of abuse of power in the Crucible: Abigail.A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior.

Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, 'Political opposition. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's 'witch-hunts' in the United States. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. 'I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,' Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts.

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