The Puritan society in the book, The Crucible, is shown to be very strict and corrupted. The girls looking for some one to blame for their own wrong doings and for a way to get want they want, cried witch craft and with out barely putting up a fight they got away with it. Everyone who was not blamed or by any way directly affected by the girls crying out witch craft believed them and …showed first 75 words of 725 total…

…showed last 75 words of 725 total…Puritan society as a whole was. Anyone who was not convicted believed these crazy accusations. It was said that no one really could see spirits, but the girls saying they did was believed by one of the most educated and repected man in the society. This can only make us believe that if Danforth believed the girls, then anyone and everyone who was not convicted, believed that the girls had seen spirits of the “Devil”.