Who Is The Salem Witch Trial In The Crucible

Arthur Miller wrote the play entitled The Crucible that focused on the Salem witch trials in 1692. The chaos of the witch trials started with a group of teenage girls accused of witchcraft, but who in turn, accused innocent people of witchcraft to save themselves.The girls framed many innocent people of witchcraft to save themselves from death. During this time period when religion and government overlapped, the court accepts spectral evidence of spirits, rather than actual, hard evidence. Any innocent person accused of witchcraft could confess and be freed from death. Many people did not admit to witchcraft because they wanted to die with their name intact, then lie to save their life. One such character, Rebecca Nurse, an old woman who is