Manipulation In The Crucible

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Manipulation normally leads to bad thing. It is beneficial for motivators to achieve their purpose, and government or leader to gains social status and authority by exploiting people’s fear to manipulate them; it lets the manipulated people lose chance to think about themselves ; and it has a huge impact upon increasing terror and fear. The manipulation turns to bad when the manipulator tries to control people by threating them to get his own purpose. In the crucible page 1244,Abigail menaces Betty, along with the other girls present. “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of word, about the other things, and I will …show more content…
And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ head on the pillow next to mine, and I see some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had ever seen the sun go down.” She clearly knows the group of girls is feared. They all scare that if someone accidentally says any of word about what crazy things they done in the dark forest.All of them will get into trouble. They will be accused in the town in front of all the people. Just by using their inside fright, Abigail hits her eventually mark by changing a position being an accuser to accuse Elizabeth the one she hates so much with the group of manipulated followers. Additionally, she tends to act that she is witchcraft by Mary to show she is innocent when Mary Warren says the girls are just pretending. In crucible page 1307 Abigail says “a wind, a cold wind, has come.” Her eyes fall on Mary Warren. It distinctly reflects as a leader, she is manipulative. She uses her overwhelming power to force Mary to join in their acting by repeating each word that Mary says.” In page 1312, Mary Warren, turning on them all hysterically and stamping her feet: “Abby, …show more content…
After 9.11 happens, the government has been manipulating the public’s fear ever since in order to assume great authority and limit civil liberties. In the governmental hysteria page 4 “It makes us reach for a gun when we hear a noise in the middle of the night. It makes us not want to live near someone of another race. And it allows us to willingly give up the civil liberties we have enjoyed for more than 200 years simply because our “leader” tells us there is a “terrorist threat.” Basically, fear occupied people’s mind. They become irrational fear about terrorist,in this case, it’s easy for people to give up their individual liberties and compromise with government. In the same way, government gains their power and control naive people

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