In the play people try really hard to be perfect that they become stressed and have a break down.Today people tend to try so hard to have straight a's that they start to stress themselves and they become tired and they might drop out of school or just give up after all the hard work they did.
Another thing is that in the play the people try to point the finger at other people, this is also true today because when people become stressed and their grades start to slip they blame it on home or family problems even if they know it wasn't that bad they just don't want to admit that they didn't work hard in the end to achieve their goal. When people act bad in The Crucible the priest called them witches or say that they have been possesed by the devil so they get punished.Today when kids grades slip they have to face their parents and they also get punished.Either way trying to b perfect can have many different outcomes and even though they aren't as harsh any more the outcome of getting in trouble still exists.
