Salem, where The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, has become a dangerous, paranoid place that Martha Corey has experienced hysteria among the community, affecting her religious practices. She has been charged and imprisoned for reading books, in which her husband, Giles Corey who is portrayed as a hot tempered but honorable man, has accidentally slipped to Reverend Hale that she had been reading strange books. Since people in the town are very uptight and paranoid, they automatically assume the innocent Martha was reading books of witchcraft. Adding on to this unfortunate situation, Walcott has also accused her of bewitching his pig that he bought from her four to five years ago but could not seem to remember to feed the animal, causing