Textbook case of suggestion, coercion, and group psychosis. The girl group, terrified to tell on Queen Bee, slave girl amazed at the reaction of her performance, the " court" giving us the absolute power of religious dogma, and finally the hero, John Proctor standing for truth with a capital T. Very much mirrors what is happening in 2021. Who will be sent to the gallows due to the new religion's mandates?