Themes from The Crucible:

 

1.           The need for social responsibility.

2.           The need for human connection and social integrity.

 

3.           Societal problems traced to individual human failings.

 

4.           Societies that try to suppress individual freedom in order to maintain social order.

 

5.           The consequences of viewing everything or everyone as 'black or white'.

 

6.           Abuse of power.

 

7.           Mass hysteria.

 

8.           Prejudice toward people who have little or no power.

 

9.           Women’s rights and roles.

 

10.       Separation of church and state.

 

11.       Individual vs. community rights.

 

12.       Democracy and the rights of the individual.