You will have to be more specific as to what point you are referring to. The attitude in Salem changes several times throughout the story, but the answer is probably that Salem was falling a part with some people living in fear of being accused and others doing the accusing.
Crucible is a noun.
It is called a Crucible
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· Winston-Salem is a city in North Carolina
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The Crucible is a fictional work ABOUT the Salem Witch Trials.
The condition of Salem in The Crucible, Act 4 was very tense. In the discussion of Parris and the cows, you can see that the town is really disrupted.
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SALEM WITCH TRIALS in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
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The Crucible is a fictional story about the Salem Witch Panic. Just don't take any facts from the Crucible and believe them, its fiction after all.
The Crucible was merely a dramatization of the Salem Witch trials, not the actual trials. Therefore, all the characters in the Crucible are adaptions of real people at the real trials.
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The Crucible tells about the Salem panic using facts that make the panic into a close parallel with McCarthyism.
Why did miller choose the which trials as the basis for the crucible