Author Miller’s The Crucible and Katherine Howe’s Conversion mirror the same problems among young girls of colonial Salem, Massachusetts and modern Cambridge, Massachusetts. Though both narratives vary in over 300 years, the two groups of girls face troubles such as peace versus conflict, betrayal versus conformation, and honesty versus deceit — all of which are present today within the female group. In The Crucible, the town of Salem undergoes a witchcraft crisis; as the “proof” lies in the hands of naive girls, they place blame on other women and men of Salem and, therefore, affect the whole town with their tactics. The novel displays the dramatic, fictitious background story of the accused and the accusers of the Salem witch trials and demonstrates