Salem, Massachusetts, a place of beginnings in the New World, shows that the Puritans’ “self-denial, their purposefulness, their suspicion of all vain pursuits, their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man” (Miller 6). The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, describes the Salem witch trials during the seventeenth century. Numerous people were hung and jailed for being accused of witchcraft. In his work, Miller describes how a young girl, Abigail Williams, becomes the main accuser in the town of several honest and truthful Puritan individuals. The trials are “a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins,…