The mood of Puritan Salem in The Crucible is serious and fearful. Option B is correct.
The Crucible is a 1953 play writtenby American playwright Arthur Miller in which he illustrated and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that occured in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93.
This play was an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government chased people accused of being communists.