Sam Litherman Mrs. Wall ENG 3U 16 December 2011 Reputation within Society Everywhere you go; people are always trying to uphold their reputation. They will make others lives worse or even in jeopardy just to make sure people don’t look at them differently. To make sure their reputation isn’t compromised. In the play The Crucible‚ Arthur miller expresses how important ones reputation is in a small community. He shows how they will defend their reputations because it is what keeps their social
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you ever wondered if witches were actually real? In the play “The Crucible‚” people thought they were real. In this story the mass hysteria that ensues is comparable to the Red Scare of the 1950s. In these similar conflicts people were scared of one another and falsely accused innocent people. We can learn something from these conflicts though. “The Crucible” has many events and themes that can apply to real life. In “The Crucible‚” there were a large amount of people that were accused. At first
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Hysteria The state of hysteria in a society can spread faster than a brush fire‚ and be more dangerous then a San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event‚ promotion of the event‚ attacks due to pretense‚ and total panic and chaos. Webster’s dictionary defines hysteria as a state of unmanageable fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear‚ and will eventually cause social unrest
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Erik Lindroth Ms. Wasserman English 11 October 18‚ 2012 Intolerance is an action that was a major part of puritan society‚ and is still encountered in our modern world. Ironically‚ intolerance is a often a result of religious expectations and differing opinions. In both the Puritan society of Salem and the modern world‚ intolerance results from between those who strongly follow a religion‚ and others who differ. Since religions contain a variety of ideas and beliefs that are regarded so highly
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Individuality versus Conformity in Miller ’s The Crucible The theocratic town of Salem‚ in the late 1600s‚ not only advocated conformity but stifled individuality. The play‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ illustrates the conflict between conformity and individuality. Salem‚ a town dependent on the unity and participation‚ understandably teaches people from a young age to recognize the needs of the community as greater than the needs of an individual. As any unit needs something to hold it all together
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Modern Society is Copying a Fictional One “A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.” says David Harsanyi. As time goes by‚ everyday habits are altered to match current events and society. Neil Postman makes a point in Amusing Ourselves to Death by stating that modern society is becoming like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and not like George Orwell’s 1984. Postman includes many factors in his argument like the
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in The Crucible In The Crucible‚ the community of Salem was depicted as motivated by fear‚ greed‚ and revenge shown by the witch trials. Some people of the community are afraid for their lives of being condemned a witch‚ while others take advantage of those fears. As a result‚ people will do anything to satisfy the motivation including betrayal. In The Crucible‚ three types of betrayal are evident which are the betrayal of oneself‚ theocracy‚ and community. In Salem‚ the puritan society is supposed
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The Holocaust and The Crucible Imagine someone’s parents accusing them of eating their left overs. They know they were not around‚ so they could not have eaten them. But their siblings happen to blame them for it‚ and their parents believe their siblings over them. Since they “took” their parent’s left overs they are now on punishment. That person had to deal with a very similar‚ but nowhere near as severe punishment that the victims of the Salem Witch Trials and the Jews during the Holocaust
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definition of tolerance is “willingness to accept feelings‚ habits‚ or beliefs that are different from your own” (Merriam Webster). However the modern unofficial definition of tolerance requires a person to not only accept someone’s idea‚ but you must also must not disagree with an individual’s idea otherwise you are being intolerant. The problem with this modern day misconception is that to tolerate someone you must also think that they are wrong or disagree with them. Tolerating
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The Crucible Essay In novella of The Crucible by Arthur Miller the implications can be inferred regarding the scapegoat phenomenon in America today in how we perceive people getting accused of things they are not doing. For instance Muslims are considered bad people only because they had a few terrorist people in their population. The key lessons from the period of time during The Crucible reflects how we could have learned differently. Several people were accused of witchcraft most times they had
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