TikTok is suddenly obsessed with 'The Crucible.' Here's why.

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play about the Salem witch trials is all over TikTok feed. The tragedy, which was also made into a 1996 movie starring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis, has its own fandom. Much of the newfound popularity “The Crucible” has gained online can be attributed to TikTok user Joe Hegyes. who imagined the play’s supposed villain, witch-accuser Abigail Williams, as an influencer, or the “original Lana Del Rey”. “I’m not trying to start anything, like, you know me I don’t like drama, but … I just saw Goody Proctor with the devil,” he said in his most viral video of the series. Hegyes’ posts spawned what is now known as “CrucibleTok,” in which other users have been parodying the book’s themes in classic 1600s garb. Tons of students have had to read “The Crucible,” and though they might not reference it like a TV show or movie, details from the book are engrained in their brains. English teachers say “The Crucible” captures a number of “chaotic themes of the moment,” like fanaticism, misogyny and unsubstantiated claims