Scapegoating

The last person someone would ever expect to turn on them is their neighbors, friends, or even relatives, but the people of Salem, Massachusetts often found themselves in this situation. In 1692, a small town called Salem on the coast of Massachusetts began a horrific time period which was named the “Salem Witch Trials.” Innocent people were being hung because of these girls that pointed their fingers at someone they felt like accusing. The witch hunts that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts back…

Same as “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, “The Lottery”, which was written by Shirley Jackson in 1940s’, also presented about scapegoating. It is mainly about people in that town have to sacrifice an person (except children) each year in order to have a good harvest in the next coming year (Jackson 673-79). These behaviours normally do not make sense. Therefore, the articles like…

Sacrifice, a word that one may not comprehend or perceive when it is put into context. One who sacrifices constantly may not realize the extent of their sacrifice. Throughout history, humans have sacrificed. Frequently done to earn respect or acknowledgement of their God. For example, the ancient Aztec civilizations had regular sacrificial ceremonies to show worship to their God. The most prominent sacrifice of the human race was Jesus Christ. In modern time, sacrifice is not as tremendous as it…

What would the world be like if power was equally shared and world leaders were no longer in power. People would more likely to take control of their own lives and treat others with respect. This is because if power is shared equally, everyone is in control of their own power and how they are treating others. This is sadly not the case in the book Animal Farm. In the allegorical novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the main characters use different propaganda devices in order to gain power and…

The Lottery: Scapegoating and Maintaining Homogeneousness How a person becomes pauperized by society and customs, this is the example given by Shirley Jackson. The title “The Lottery” gives you some signs of winning, but how a whole story executes and takes place is shocking. Shocking in the sense, it shouldn’t have a meaning to win the lottery. This story takes place due to false belief and tradition. Most of the nearby villages have already retarded this tradition. The main question is why…

Hassan’s apparent perfection and as such, Amir feels great envy towards Hassan despite his lower social station. Hassan later becomes Amir’s scapegoat which only further drives the line between their perceived levels of value as individuals. The scapegoating, however allows for Hosseini to work in Amir’s redemption as a person, once again juxtaposing him with Hassan. When we are first introduced to Amir and Hassan, they almost seem equal, but as time progresses it becomes clear that Amir is…

accuses Mary Warren, who was trying to help the Proctors, to save her lies from being reviled. Though Mary Warren,who had a tendency to switch loyalties, fearing Abigail’s actions turned back to the girls by accusing John Proctor of possessing her. Scapegoating did not put anyone out of danger, only place the danger with another for moments at a time, and so the circle…

The context of an individual as well as their adolescent experience may be influenced by prejudicial opinions and knowledge. Craig Silvey achieves this through the external factors of setting and time to reveal their transformation of innocence to maturity. An individual’s context may be influenced by preductal opinions, exposing them to a new reality impacting their adolescent transition to maturity. Silvey achieves this through the characters Jasper and Jeffery who are both exposed to the…

on numerous minorities, mainly the Jews. He essentially gave the social majority a punching bag that they could use to relive their anger that could not fight back. This is perhaps an extreme example of scapegoating, but within the last hundred years there have been numerous examples of scapegoating that have ended in genocide: the Armenian Genocide of 1915-17, multiple military leadership purges under Joseph Stalin, and the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 to name a few. So while it may seem…

They are each crucial to portraying the island as a microcosm of World War II. Ralph has the strength and leadership of Winston Churchill, while Piggy’s exploitation and scapegoating is much like that of the Jews and Jack’s military and persuasive manner is not unlike Hitler’s. This allegory is intended to show people the truth behind the world war. As a microcosm it uses a small scale example to try to decipher how World War…