What Is The Difference Between The Crucible And Today

You've probably noticed the insane and abundant amount of sexual assault charges that have been dealt out to today's popular celebrities. Now, this isn't the first time that a ton of accusations has happened. Arthur Miller wrote a play back in the 50s during the time of McCarthyism called the crucible. His play was to show that a ton of people were being accused of communism just like they were for witchcraft in Salem. So now the pattern continues but in a whole different way. Yes, these things differ from each other in many ways, but they are also similar in ways too. For example, sexual assault crimes tend to be true more often than someone being a witch but, just like in Salem, the accused people’s lives will most likely be ruined; The trials
would also be in a public matter so everyone would know. The people being put on trial have huge impacts on the rest of the world, so them making bad decisions affect everyone. The accusations both in the crucible and probably today were used in some way to gain money or power.
These people's lives, both from the crucible and today are ruined.
They have been publicly frowned upon and showcased so that almost everyone knows and looks down on them. In the Crucible it states, “I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church!” (Miller, 142). Proctor realizes here that he is just being humiliated, and that the court wants the whole village to know. It's like how social media spreads the word about a celebrity or athlete being charged with harassment. The church was also equivalent to social media because both are the and were the fastest ways to spread the news. Proctor didn't think that the public should be confronted with this
information.
The vast majority of people that are being focused on for sexual assault are people with big impacts on everyone. Movie actors to athletes, they all have a pretty big impact on us. Whether it's the culture that they influence or the way they make trends we have a connection to a lot of them one way or another. It says in the book, “The town's gone wild, I think. She speak of Abigail, and I thought she were a saint, to hear her.”(Miller, 52). The town is going crazy because Abigail and others are going around accusing people of being witches. The town is worried and people feel like they can't trust anyone. This is like today because often times people look upon celebrities are more than just people. Like they are almost better, so when one does something terrible it shocks us immensely. It shocks us to maybe the point where we just don't even want to believe it. It also makes it seem like even the best are doing wrong so it puts us in a mindset of how terrible the world is.
Power is something that is the driving force behind a lot of things today and for the past 1000s of years.
So with that in mind people, many times will abuse it or try to gain it in any form of unjust way. Also, by the power, it refers to money, which is one of the most dominant forms. People will go to extreme measures just to gain it. As it states in the crucible, “I will tell you this-you are either lying now, or you were lying in the court, and either case you have committed perjury. . .” (Miller, 102). Almost all of the girls lied and followed Abigail's lead when she was accusing people of witchcraft. They were lying to get rid of people that they didn't like or if the person causing problems for them. Today people Filing lawsuits could be doing the exact same thing but for different reasons. For example, someone could give consent and then later turn around and file a hefty lawsuit for sexual harassment. They would begin suing mainly for the money, and since sexual harassment cases have been a huge problem and most to through, you would win the case and the money. This shows that once an enormous problem occurs people could blow up the problem, assuming that it is happening everywhere due to something like fear. Then power greedy people would capitalize on this in unfair
ways.
```So overall, today’s sexaul assult problem is different but yet quite alike to the Salem Witch Trials. It's similar in many ways but some of the biggest reasons are the fact that in both scenarios the victims life was completely ruined and publicly acknowledged by a ton of people by it almost being advertised. The trials in salem also affected everyone kinda like the way everyone is affected by celebrities being accused. Finally, in both situations they both could have been false accusations just to gain power or achieve something wanted.