We're all basically just like the crazy girls in "The Crucible"

I always find myself blindly following my owners' commands and supporting their actions no matter the circumcises. But I am a dog, so this is the normal thing to be doing. However, in The Crucible the young girls also found themselves blindly following someone they looked up to—Abigail. How strange and bizarre it seems that these girls would conform with Abigail's actions to try to fit in with their peers in order to feel accepted. Of course, this is something that is rare and would never happen to myself and humans today. It just sounds crazy. There's no way we would not notice ourselves being swallowed up by society's pressures and transforming how we live in order to find acceptance among our peers and surroundings. I mean we're in high school. This is the "easy" time of our lives before college and actually figuring our lives out—not that we will ever come close to figuring them out. High school is the time to branch out and try new things. A time to become unique individuals with different goals and aspirations in life. Of course, that is without any judgement or unspoken disapproval of one's choices from others. Although we are granted the freedom to explore our styles and ways of living life, does anyone truly take full advantage of it?

Or are we, like the young girls in The Crucible, controlled by the desire to fit in and find acceptance among our peers, which leads to blindly following and supporting the actions and decisions of those deemed important and powerful, making us like "doing the same" (line 981) things as those with authority and popularity and making us willing to "let out gigantic scream[s]" (line 1096) when it is in the interest of following along and supporting the larger group? I say we are controlled by this unacknowledged presence, that is looming over our heads, of the desire to not be categorized as an outcast among our peers. So instead, we follow the cookie-cutter lifestyle, attempting to mimic the actions and decisions of those who are labeled as having a "respectful" and "successful" footprint, making us no different from the young girls in The Crucible –except perhaps being slightly less insane (for some of you at least).