This essay is based on the play by Arthur Miller called The Crucible. This play was written about the Salem Witch Trials, and was published in the early 1950’s. In this essay, I argue that the witch trials can be compared to how we treated Muslims in America after 9/11, compare some of the major feelings in the play to things that I have felt in my personal life, and explain how I thought it affected me.
In the setting of the Crucible, was in Salem 1692, where a bunch of girls have fallen ill, having hallucinations and seizures. In religious Puritan New England, that is extremely frightening and unexplainable, usually tied to the devil. This sickness is what caused the fears of witchcraft, and that only sparked everyone accusing everyone else of witchcraft. By the time the sickness was over, 19 people and 2 dogs had …show more content…
We view them as terrorists, because of the color of their skin, what they wear, who they worship, but we don’t take the time to hear their side of the story very often. And if we do, we discount it because we see them as lower class citizens, because they’re not white. When they tried to build a mosque near Ground Zero, we found it offensive because the people who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks did so in the Islam religion. People argued that it wasn’t an issue of freedom, but one of sensitivity. We prevented them from doing that because we’re so anti-Muslim, because we accuse people of doing something that was the response of one small group of people. The same type of thing happened to the ‘witches’. They were accused of something they may or may not have had a part in as a group, without the chance to explain themselves. And if they did, they were discredited. Or, like in John Proctor’s case, they were hanged as innocents, all because of the actions of others.
The Crucible as a book also played on some things that I have felt in my personal life. One thing that everyone in this book had to have felt was fear. Fear of
In the setting of the Crucible, was in Salem 1692, where a bunch of girls have fallen ill, having hallucinations and seizures. In religious Puritan New England, that is extremely frightening and unexplainable, usually tied to the devil. This sickness is what caused the fears of witchcraft, and that only sparked everyone accusing everyone else of witchcraft. By the time the sickness was over, 19 people and 2 dogs had …show more content…
We view them as terrorists, because of the color of their skin, what they wear, who they worship, but we don’t take the time to hear their side of the story very often. And if we do, we discount it because we see them as lower class citizens, because they’re not white. When they tried to build a mosque near Ground Zero, we found it offensive because the people who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks did so in the Islam religion. People argued that it wasn’t an issue of freedom, but one of sensitivity. We prevented them from doing that because we’re so anti-Muslim, because we accuse people of doing something that was the response of one small group of people. The same type of thing happened to the ‘witches’. They were accused of something they may or may not have had a part in as a group, without the chance to explain themselves. And if they did, they were discredited. Or, like in John Proctor’s case, they were hanged as innocents, all because of the actions of others.
The Crucible as a book also played on some things that I have felt in my personal life. One thing that everyone in this book had to have felt was fear. Fear of