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A Look into The Crucible Interpretation Everyone has their weaknesses, some people are envious, others are uneducated and others hold their pride above everything else. I believe human weakness had to do with the Salem witch trials. Another reason for the trials was the general uneducated population during the time. The book, The Crucible, by Aurther Miller gives us many examples of weakness and education that took place in the false accusations of the Salem witch trials. The people of Salem were unfortunately uneducated in many aspects. This is a direct result of many of the irrational accusation make during the Salem witch trials. For example, when an elderly man showed up at the scene of a young townsman who was attempting to build a fire, the fire suddenly flared up. Today in this age we would not even thought twice about something like that but because of the lack of knowledge and education of the elderly man there was no way to explain such a thing. Another example is Tituba, she was easily thought of as a witch because of her different and exotic ways. If the people in Salem had been taught the different cultures they wouldn’t have thought