The Crucible Effect

Everyone has a part to play in story, even it's a small action, it will have a big effect in the future. In the play of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, there is a group of young girls, in their teens, crying witchery. After being caught dancing in the forest, they are called witches. Trying to become innocent they throw others into the fire who have nothing to do with the problem they began. While the girls took this action some people would take advantage of this and have their daughter blame someone they are jealous of. The people blamed would have two options, to confess their actions and be free of their sins or to not confess and be hanged for the sin they have committed. In the end innocent people were hung, for a crime they did not commit.
Everyone is responsible for the the creation of the mass hysteria in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. In the beginning the person to blame is Betty, she is laying on her bed not waking up, she is a deep slumber. There are moments where Betty would wake up and collapse back into her deep slumber. When she wakes up and collapses it seems to be at a time when she feels threatened. “Abigail...I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!…(She goes to Betty and roughly sits her up.) Now, you-sit up and stop this! (But Betty collapses in her hands and lies inert on the bed.),” (Miller 20). It clearly shows that Abigail is threatening Betty. Abigail is threatening Betty and the other girls if they were to speak of what they did in the forest.