In January 1953, the American playwright Arthur Miller debuted his new play “The Crucible” on

Broadway in New York City. It tells the tale of the speculative, baseless hysteria and witch trials that
passed off at some stage in the 17th century withinside the village of Salem, Massachusetts and the
terrible calamity that ensued. It examines the haunting truth of a society primarily based totally on rigid,
spiritual customs, superstitious norms and the way those may be used as a weapon and prey on human
beings`s irrational fears.

Based on actual human beings and real events, “The Crucible” tells tale of a group of stripling girls, led
with the aid of using the protagonist Abigail, `confess` to having visible numerous men and women of
the city of Salem with the devil. This hysteria of witchcraft sweeps over the village - even the
government fall beneathneath the sway of those mendacity younger girls. Caught withinside the center
of those hysterics is the own circle of relatives of John and Elizabeth Proctor, who've struggled
withinside the beyond because of John as soon as having an affair with Abigail whilst she become hired
with the aid of using the Proctors, however are looking to rebuild their…display greater content…

This reductive literary culture of portraying girls as inherently loopy with the aid of using authors is
properly explored withinside the ee-e book The Madwomen withinside the Attic: The Women Writer
and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination with the aid of using Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan
Gubar.