A pious community becomes topsy-turvy when accusations of witch craft plague the town. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, he tells this absurd tale based off the British colony of Massachusetts’ witch craft episode in 1602. He breaks this hair raising play into 4 acts. In act 1 he starts it off with Reverend Parris catching his daughter, niece, and other teen girls in the woods. Parris claims they were practicing witch craft with their house slave, Tituba. As the story progresses the audience finds out the teens in fact were practicing witch craft, and began unraveling many secrets. One being Abigail and Proctor’s affair. In act 2 you see the dynamic of Proctor and Elizabeth’s life. It gives insight that proctor isn’t as invested into the church
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It is an Ad Hominem fallacy, because he attacks her character instead of using reasoning. He ends up confessing about his affair. The teens including Marry confess that he is the evil one, the devil. The courts arrest proctor. When the day of proctors hanging comes he is given one last chance to confess of him seeing the devil. John takes the plea and confesses, he is asked to give other names and sign his name on a document. He refuses on both terms, claiming to only be responsible for his name and that he will not sign the papers because that will only ruin it. In the end John continues to refuse and is carried out to his hanging. Through the course of the Crucible all the above lists John’s actions and his point of view during the entire play. When referring to the Kohlberg character moral level, John starts at a level five. A level five means that the character is able to distinguish between moral and legal rights, and recognizes that rules sometimes need to be broken. John knows that the courts are legally wrong on how they carry out their proceedings, he is also aware that as a man of moral he isn’t able to agree with his fellow towns people’s …show more content…
The Red scare occurred during the 1950’s, it is the widespread fear of communism entering into the United States. A main supporter of this was a republican senator named Joseph McCarthy. He thought he could minimize the threat of communism by suspecting others of being disloyal and dangerous to the security of the United States. This became known as McCarthyism. Much like the Crucible the Red Scare was based off of a blaming game. When accused of being a communist in the United States, the person becomes blacklisted from jobs, they faced jail, and were seen as social outcasts. The people accused anyone who were seen as an enemy or a threat, and most were false and randomized. Very few did not fear the Red Scare, they were able to see the unjust and unethical way of McCarthyism. The Crucible reflects the Red Scare greatly. As you see the town is stricken with fear for witches like America feared communists. The towns people blindly accused those they thought could harm them or those who seemed
It is an Ad Hominem fallacy, because he attacks her character instead of using reasoning. He ends up confessing about his affair. The teens including Marry confess that he is the evil one, the devil. The courts arrest proctor. When the day of proctors hanging comes he is given one last chance to confess of him seeing the devil. John takes the plea and confesses, he is asked to give other names and sign his name on a document. He refuses on both terms, claiming to only be responsible for his name and that he will not sign the papers because that will only ruin it. In the end John continues to refuse and is carried out to his hanging. Through the course of the Crucible all the above lists John’s actions and his point of view during the entire play. When referring to the Kohlberg character moral level, John starts at a level five. A level five means that the character is able to distinguish between moral and legal rights, and recognizes that rules sometimes need to be broken. John knows that the courts are legally wrong on how they carry out their proceedings, he is also aware that as a man of moral he isn’t able to agree with his fellow towns people’s …show more content…
The Red scare occurred during the 1950’s, it is the widespread fear of communism entering into the United States. A main supporter of this was a republican senator named Joseph McCarthy. He thought he could minimize the threat of communism by suspecting others of being disloyal and dangerous to the security of the United States. This became known as McCarthyism. Much like the Crucible the Red Scare was based off of a blaming game. When accused of being a communist in the United States, the person becomes blacklisted from jobs, they faced jail, and were seen as social outcasts. The people accused anyone who were seen as an enemy or a threat, and most were false and randomized. Very few did not fear the Red Scare, they were able to see the unjust and unethical way of McCarthyism. The Crucible reflects the Red Scare greatly. As you see the town is stricken with fear for witches like America feared communists. The towns people blindly accused those they thought could harm them or those who seemed