~Us vs. Them...Us and Them~

I'm not honestly sure just what pushes people to do the things that they do. But it's not hard to see why they do the things they do. For instance, why would the girls in The Crucible lie like that? Simple: they needed to get out of a snag so they conjured up this great lie that everyone believed. And tons of lives ended short because of them. They put their own motives and wants first and it cost people. I guess that's probably why most people do the things they do and because of this, many people suffer and even die. That's usually what happens when wars break out.

Our country has been in so many wars over the course of its existence. We've also lost countless numbers of people to them. Personally, I wish that war never existed. It's stupid, land is destroyed, and people die. Sometimes, a war can be over something really unimportant. The Crucible is a form of a verbal war that went on between the citizens of Salem and the girls, particularly Abigail and John Proctor. And it happened because the girls didn't want to get in trouble for what they did. But once they got themselves into the mess they had made, it would've been too hard to get out, as evidenced by Mary's testimony that went horribly wrong. And I don't even think that for a second Abigail wanted to back down from what she started after she saw just how much power and attention she was getting from this. Plus, she was able to manipulate the whole town and hold their judgment under her finger. She enjoyed her power and nothing could stop her from getting exactly what she wanted.

But in the end, Abigail didn't get what she wanted. The man she loved was condemned to hang as a witch, and he did. She never managed to get Elizabeth condemned or killed, and she had to resort to running away because she probably figured that she would have been found out sooner or later and hung because she had lied along with the other girls. And that's usually the case with so many other problems in the world. Something horrible comes about because people just have to get their way and will stop at nothing to get it, no matter what the consequences. Even if it means innocent people will die because of selfish wants.