The Crucible gives the reader the opportunity to observe the concept that perception is truth. The idea that, the actual truth has less value than the perceived truth. For example, because of the hysteria caused by the Puritans inability to accept that bad things happen, such as infant and child deaths, cattle or livestock, or pig death or sickness that can not be explained, they decided to invent a cause "witchcraft".
The black magic was performed by people that the town elders or administrators did not like or understand. Or those who engaged in pleasures of the flesh which were strictly forbidden by the Puritans.
So a group mindset, or "Groupthink" is developed based on perception rather than truth. This runs the entire conflict and plot of the play. Innocent people are put to death for witchcraft to satisfy the perception that evil is being eliminated from the town. When in fact, the very act of putting innocent people to death is EVIL.
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