Regina George and Aaron Samuels Were Seen Canoodling

This week we read The Crucible by Arthur Lee Miller, though Miller based the play on drama in Congress as a teen girl I believe the drama is...like totally mirroring high school drama. The finger pointing frenzy is parallel a lot of real-life drama, and most importantly Mean Girls. The cult classic film bears a stunning resemblance to the events of the play. Abigail is Regina George-queen bee and also a 16 year old mastermind. Mary Warren is Gretchen Wieners, both girls somewhat aloof but have their eyes on a bigger prize. The unconscious Betty is most like Karen Smith; mostly because poor Karen is about as bright as Betty's sleeping body. Kady Heron IS the enemy to Regina; therefore making her Elizabeth Proctor. Both Kady and Elizabeth end up as the queen bee's enemy for getting between the queen bee and her man. Finally, no one could forget John Proctor as he is mirrors Aaron Samuels; the dashing male lead, creating a great deal of chaos with his charm. The events of the film also show parallelism; finger pointing, witch hunt frenzy can be compared to the insanity that ensues when The Burn Book is leaked. Regina and Abigail both fake innocence when in reality they've each carefully plotted the demise of their enemy (Regina attempts to take down Kady as Abigail does to Elizabeth). Both girls are found out in somewhat similar situations, Proctor makes his big confession about Abigail in the courthouse, whereas everyone admits to feeling 'personally victimized by Regina George' in a major purging in the high school gym. After some intense Google searching(aka searching past the first page of results), I did come to the sad conclusion the Tina Fey has never mentioned using The Crucible as inspiration when writing Mean Girls. But, the parallelism is ever present, and that is, like, SO fetch.