In Act 1 of The Crucible,  it demonstrates the frustration about blatant lies someone tells and everyone else believes. In the play, multiple people were being accused of having the ability of witchcraft. Witchcraft was considered a sign of sins in which people that were being accused to have witchcraft could cause a substantial amount of troubles in lives, however, some of the accusations were formed on purposely without evidence to accused on people that were mostly being disliked by others which caused a lot of innocent people to be involved in events that they could have avoided.  For example in The Crucible Act 1 page 17-18 line 6-14, 1-5, Tituba was able to tell the person who murdered Mrs. Putnam’s child by the fact that Tituba conjures up the dead which would somehow be considered as witchcraft, Abigail trying to justify herself as clean-handed as Mercy and she will be called witches in the village. They both were frustrated about the accusation which they tried to prove that they did not commit a crime in any means.

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The movie that I thought of that has related to this theme is “Crazy Rich Asians”. It is a movie mainly about the love between a couple. Nick Young is an extremely wealthy man that was born in a wealthy family while Rachel Chu is a passionate girl that dedicated to her work that just falls in love with Nick without any other substantive reasons. Nonetheless, Racheal was accused of being a girl that desire the money instead of the man by the other girls that have the relationship between Nick’s family. She was frustrated as she did not and was not informed by anyone that the man that she dated is an extremely wealthy man in Asia. This totally demonstrates how the frustration Rachael has come from the false and unreal information established by others while everyone else somehow believes it all. Despite these two events happened in different circumstances and era, they still somehow demonstrate the same thing as both of the events shows that unrealistic rumors cause frustration while people decided to believe those lies.

Work cited 

• Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play In Four Acts. New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Print.
• Fishman, Elana, and Elana Fishman. “’Crazy Rich Asians’ Costumes Were so Expensive, They Required Security.” Page Six, Page Six Style , 6 Aug. 2018, pagesix.com/2018/08/06/crazy-rich-asians-costumes-were-so-expensive-they-required-security/.
• “Crazy Rich Asians (Film).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Feb. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Rich_Asians_(film).