The Crucible: The Truth That Lies Within People

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The Truth that Lies Within People “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi, a non-violence leader that influenced change in the word, reveals through his words, that human-kind has the resources for its necessaries however, it not always enough to cover the “wants” of people. Playwright, Arthur Miller of The Crucible demonstrates a clear scenario of how people in Salem of 1692 acted in their forms of satisfying their wants. The Crucible is regarding to the Salem Witch Trials. Reverend Paris's daughter Betty has fallen into an illness and people start questioning it weather it is witchcraft. Several girls along the way start blaming others of witchcraft that is happening in Salem. The girls blamed …show more content…
“Additionally, we must challenge ourselves to examine how such fear, such mistrust, and such misguided response to the media’s representation of who is a threat and who is at risk affects our perceptions and our actions in daily lives and, at a macrosocial level, our criminal justice response to the management of crime and threats of crime.” It is an indication of how in our modern world, media could frame and point finger at innocent people. People should be able to form their own opinions and not have someone choice. It ties in with the Crucible. In the Crucible when the girls (that were with Abigail ) , the ones that blamed multiple people in Salem of witchcraft, other people in the village started believing them even the judges. The judges kept asking the people in trail multiple questions if they had relationship with the devil. Even though, they denied it, the judges kept asking the same question in different forms. Selfishness makes individuals block other opinions. When people are selfish they hold on what he/she thinks is right without seeing other sides. Again, It to his/her beinit not the

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