Jack Nguyen
Mrs. Wright
Ap English 3: Period 5
11 March 2016
SNR Group Meeting #4: Discussion Focus Questions 4 and 5
4. Theme and other abstract ideas
What are the major themes of the work? Provide a short phrase for each theme. Remember, these should not be subjects (like love, war, destiny), but rather what the author is saying about these subjects (love is a force that heals all wounds).
The major themes that are in The Crucible, include:
Fear manifests people and leads them towards corruption.
Religion is a perspective that determines societal behaviors.
How is each theme portrayed in the book? (Example: In Catcher in the Rye, the theme, fear of human interaction leads to alienation, is shown through Holden’s inability to communicate …show more content…
For example, Puritans were religious people bent on praising God and purging all that are associated with Satan in any ways. Due to this religious aspect, many unnatural phenomenons would’ve been considered as “witchcraft” or such practices that are believed to have correlation to the Devil. In addition to this, Puritans created the societal system of trials or crucibles known as witch trials, in order to purge “Satanic” beings and influences from the society and world in which the Puritans lived in. This is evident in how Deputy Danforth readily arrested the people that signed their testament and forced them into the witch trials and court, without due process of law but instead, solely due to his religious perspective. Danforth does not use objective opinion, but rather, his own subjective opinion that these people are surely guilty of “something” (witchcraft in this case) if they refused to come to …show more content…
The moral issue in this playbook is the idea of difference of opinion, which is evident in how John Proctor refuses to give in to Deputy Danforth’s demand of the testament that John signed in order to avoid execution. At first, John was willing to “admit” that he had relations to witchcraft in order to live for his wife and family. Soon after, Danforth demanded that John hand over his signed testament about witchcraft so that it can be hung on the church door. John argued against this by stating that this was not a necessary action as God and Danforth himself has witnessed John sign the testament and to hang this for everyone to see is a wrongful doing on Danforth’s part. John refused to succumb to religious convictions as he believed that none of it was sensible or equitable in any ways, hence calling Danforth and many others as “such dogs”. Because of this difference of opinion from everyone else, John was sent to the gallows for this. The ethical problem explored in this playbook is the matter of witchcraft, or satanic practices that the Puritan society fears as a whole. For example, the Puritan society created these witch crucibles or trials with the purpose of executing “witches” and even innocent people “allegedly” convicted of having correlation to the Devil. Back in the Puritan society, many unknown phenomenons and such had no explanation to them,
Mrs. Wright
Ap English 3: Period 5
11 March 2016
SNR Group Meeting #4: Discussion Focus Questions 4 and 5
4. Theme and other abstract ideas
What are the major themes of the work? Provide a short phrase for each theme. Remember, these should not be subjects (like love, war, destiny), but rather what the author is saying about these subjects (love is a force that heals all wounds).
The major themes that are in The Crucible, include:
Fear manifests people and leads them towards corruption.
Religion is a perspective that determines societal behaviors.
How is each theme portrayed in the book? (Example: In Catcher in the Rye, the theme, fear of human interaction leads to alienation, is shown through Holden’s inability to communicate …show more content…
For example, Puritans were religious people bent on praising God and purging all that are associated with Satan in any ways. Due to this religious aspect, many unnatural phenomenons would’ve been considered as “witchcraft” or such practices that are believed to have correlation to the Devil. In addition to this, Puritans created the societal system of trials or crucibles known as witch trials, in order to purge “Satanic” beings and influences from the society and world in which the Puritans lived in. This is evident in how Deputy Danforth readily arrested the people that signed their testament and forced them into the witch trials and court, without due process of law but instead, solely due to his religious perspective. Danforth does not use objective opinion, but rather, his own subjective opinion that these people are surely guilty of “something” (witchcraft in this case) if they refused to come to …show more content…
The moral issue in this playbook is the idea of difference of opinion, which is evident in how John Proctor refuses to give in to Deputy Danforth’s demand of the testament that John signed in order to avoid execution. At first, John was willing to “admit” that he had relations to witchcraft in order to live for his wife and family. Soon after, Danforth demanded that John hand over his signed testament about witchcraft so that it can be hung on the church door. John argued against this by stating that this was not a necessary action as God and Danforth himself has witnessed John sign the testament and to hang this for everyone to see is a wrongful doing on Danforth’s part. John refused to succumb to religious convictions as he believed that none of it was sensible or equitable in any ways, hence calling Danforth and many others as “such dogs”. Because of this difference of opinion from everyone else, John was sent to the gallows for this. The ethical problem explored in this playbook is the matter of witchcraft, or satanic practices that the Puritan society fears as a whole. For example, the Puritan society created these witch crucibles or trials with the purpose of executing “witches” and even innocent people “allegedly” convicted of having correlation to the Devil. Back in the Puritan society, many unknown phenomenons and such had no explanation to them,