“Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.” These words quoted by Buddha, depict the reason why social binaries are such a damaging thing to our society. The word binary is defined as a system in which two sets of things are split into groups, specifically opposites. All sorts of binaries can be created, such as: gender, class, and racial. These are the more commonly known binaries that have created something similar to a social hierarchy. Social binaries were used as a strategy to investigate who was involved in the Salem Witch Trials as seen in Arthur Miller’s 1993 play, The Crucible. When reading The Crucible ask yourself, would the Salem Witch Trials conclude differently if social
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Depending on the gender you are born with, society creates expectations for what jobs you can do, how a person should behave, what you should wear, and who you should be attracted to. This gender binary system has recently been a big conversation due to a society that is struggling to assimilate. This binary is all about what people think a person is capable of, based on their gender. Gender binaries are everywhere. Whether it is in a movie, at school, at work, or athletics, these expectations for each gender have lived on but are slowly being contradicted and proven …show more content…
After some discussion about the devil, Abigail Williams steps in to make fun of Tituba’s culture background in Barbados because she was singing a song that correlated with her home (Miller 41). The racial binary describes how we think of darker skinned people as lower than us in which Abigail didn’t hesitate to demean Tituba. In act one, men such as Putnam, Parris, and Giles argue about land ownership, and money. Parris wants a house to live in and only cares about himself rather than the people of Salem (Miller 31). It seems as if Parris’ desire for a house to live in connects with the class binary. This is because he is so caught up in social categories and only cares about where he lives which plays into social class. He doesn’t want to be like other poor people in Salem, instead he wants to be in the “higher class” and live a better life than others in
Depending on the gender you are born with, society creates expectations for what jobs you can do, how a person should behave, what you should wear, and who you should be attracted to. This gender binary system has recently been a big conversation due to a society that is struggling to assimilate. This binary is all about what people think a person is capable of, based on their gender. Gender binaries are everywhere. Whether it is in a movie, at school, at work, or athletics, these expectations for each gender have lived on but are slowly being contradicted and proven …show more content…
After some discussion about the devil, Abigail Williams steps in to make fun of Tituba’s culture background in Barbados because she was singing a song that correlated with her home (Miller 41). The racial binary describes how we think of darker skinned people as lower than us in which Abigail didn’t hesitate to demean Tituba. In act one, men such as Putnam, Parris, and Giles argue about land ownership, and money. Parris wants a house to live in and only cares about himself rather than the people of Salem (Miller 31). It seems as if Parris’ desire for a house to live in connects with the class binary. This is because he is so caught up in social categories and only cares about where he lives which plays into social class. He doesn’t want to be like other poor people in Salem, instead he wants to be in the “higher class” and live a better life than others in