Throughout history, the alliance of fear, ignorance and the unknown have set out to exploit mankind's weaknesses and to decimate any shred of common sense and reason that an individual may hold. The events that took place in Arthur Miller's Crucible are the embodiment of this alliance's triumph over man. There were some key elements that the citizens of 1692 Salem were suffering from. To begin with, one of the important one was religious extremism. This society was skeptical of science, books were banned and people looked to the bible for most of their answers. Secondly, this atmosphere bred ignorance and lack of knowledge among the inhabitants. And finally when fear of the unknown, which every human being suffers from to some extent, was added to the equation, the outcome was a terrible tragedy that resulted in the deaths of many innocent people. So after taking the aforementioned information...