Bonnet, Jean-Marie. “Society vs. the Individual in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.” English
Studies 63.1 (1982): 32-36
Bonnet argues that Miller fully contradicts himself in his standpoint between the individual and society in the Crucible. The play alternates between being about an individual’s self-discovery and being about a community’s uproar. Bonnet illustrates how Miller constantly forces the characters to deny themselves at the sack of the community’s unity. This is done through the characters lying about witchcraft in Salem. Bonnet reveals that statements made by the characters have to be lies because witchcraft can only be known between the witch and the victim. Bonnet’s critique of Miller’s work …show more content…
Information should be presented in as much of an unbiased manner as possible this goes back to multiple views.
For example, blackness is presented in the community as a racial group full of oppression and inferiority. If positive viewpoints and negative viewpoints were associated with what is means to be black, the poet may be fine with being labeled as a black poet. In capture with the boy stated that he wants to be a “white poet” in order to communicate that he want to be successful” (Hughes).
Creating your own standpoint with this is original a viewpoint that has not been made by anyone at all but especially anyone that has tried to persuade one with their own experiences.
Agreeing with an existing standpoint, agreeing does not mean one is unauthentic.
Completely denying the community from which you come from is a form of self-denial.
Yet, how can one truly be an individual engulfed in community values. “American society has [been] founded by the belief that individuals” efforts and hard work will bring the success” (Collin &