Mr. Mata
Language Arts-3, Period 1
Wednesday October, 5
Against The Power “…A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.” This is basic thinking for genocide and the way genocide works. If you are against the group in power then you are as good as dead to them. In the crucible this is exactly what happens, the court inflicts fear upon the people and tells them they are either with or against the court. This was in certain ways a form of genocide and many acts of genocide have occurred. In Cambodia major genocide occurred in 1975 and was very similar to that of the crucible which is why these forms of hysteria connect without a doubt. Fear, genocides number one weapon, it’s used in every genocide that comes to mind and truly relates to The Crucible and Cambodia. “… and I will come to you I the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” There, she inflicts fear on the girls and gains the power to control the through that fear. In Cambodia Pol Pot inflicted fear among the people of Cambodia which allowed him to overthrow the government and gain power.” You will confess yourself or you will hang… I say you will hang if you do not open with me!”Again when afflicted with fear the people are like putty in your hands making the plan of genocide that much easier. When fear in genocide is thought of the people being killed and wiped out are thought of, which is true but it happened on the other side first. “There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” Parris feels fear; he fears being kicked out as a minister like many others before him so he feels the need to take control like the Khmer Rouge felt the need to take control in fear of the Vietnamese. “Do you take it upon yourself to determine what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside? …. This is the highest court of the supreme government of this province, do you