Comparing The Crucible And The Bosnian Civil War

Violence is a long-standing human tendency, tainting many different generations across the span of time. This is emphasized in literature and in real life, two primary examples being The Crucible and the Bosnian Civil war. The Civil war and The Crucible by Arthur Miller both bring about themes of cruelty and violence from mankind. People had undue anger, innocents were persecuted, and many people were senselessly murdered.
In both partially fictitious story and entirely real event is a common thread of senseless persecution of people who had done no crime. In the conflict in Bosnia, people were killed by country of origin or religion: two things that really had no effect on other people--as religion is a set of principles used to value the self, it should not be forced on others and culture
The witches and the separate factions in Bosnia both killed many people for their own selfish ends. Abigail did what she did out of lust for John Proctor and the factions of Bosnia did what they did out of prejudice for separate factions. They both threatened to get what they wanted, “I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you’d never seen the sun go down.” (Miller 1. 127-130) They accomplished what they wanted through fear, and both had their sick ambitions go far beyond what they wanted. They became monsters in a desperate attempt to attain what they wanted most.
To finish, both The Crucible and the Bosnian genocide were two tragic events in history that spun out of control extremely quickly. People had undue anger, innocents were persecuted, and many people were senselessly murdered. Prejudice and violence still occurs in our modern society and we perpetuate it. It is our job as the new generation of inhabitants on this earth tpo make sure we cause as little harm as possible, and avoid such