Theocracy

will be punished. Wearing the veil to show compliance goes against all of Marji’s family’s beliefs, so at first, she and her mother do not wear it. However as the book progresses, it becomes more and more dangerous to demonstrate views against the theocracy. This is the turning point, when Marji’s mother realizes more fully that she needs to be everything that she is supposed to be or she will be “fucked” and tossed aside as though she were “garbage,” which demonstrates just how misogynistic the…

More Reputation Arthur Miller's allegory, The Crucible, an allusion to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 gives the audience a deep understanding in history with the structure of a classical tragedy. The play takes place in Salem where it's ran by a theocracy--a combination of state and religious power! Manipulative characters with hope and willingness ready to cease the madness of the witch trials illustrate the plot throughout the historical play. John Proctor playing as a tragic hero is accused…

or entitled to their own opinion about the government. Only time they were allowed to speak was when, being greeted and to accept responses. According to the novel, this book uses biblical phrases. This means the handmaids were dictated by theocracy. Theocracy means a society ruled through religious beliefs. So if anything overstepped the boundary of the Bible, they would be penalized. Also handmaids were afraid of punishments. To get punished they would have to of had said the wrong thing at…

Residents in Salem are denied to practice any other religion or else it will be considered defiled and corrupted. The irony is that their fathers had been persecuted in England because the theocracy government are not allowing free religion. For residence in Salem, the are doing what the theocracy did to their ancestors. The witch hunt years are considered the time for revenge because it supports spectral evidence that one could accuse others for supernatural reasons without providing evidence.…

In order for a society to flourish, there must be a balance of order and freedom. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the Puritan theocracy almost complete restrains the freedoms of the townspeople, but several people oppose the oppression. John Proctor represents individual freedom, while the Salem court and the Puritan theocracy symbolize repression of freedom. When Proctor tries to make his case for the falsehood of the witchcraft accusations, Deputy Governor Danforth warns him,“We burn a hot…

There are many high schools and colleges today that base their schools on honor codes and honor systems. These set of rules are placed with the intentions of cultivating integrity. Religion is something that should be followed if one wishes too. Religion is something that some chooses to follow, and forcing a religion can have negative effects on a community. Having a community in which a person is forced to abide by certain laws and standards based on religious code takes away the freedom given…

tragedy’s tragic hero. Because John commits adultery in a rigid theocracy he suffers a dramatic fall in social status resulting in his death; thus, John Proctor is a by Aristotle's definition a tragic hero. Prior to the beginning of the play, it…

oppresses women through patriarchal interpretation of the law and hysteria which took place during their legal system of which still affects society today. During 1692 in Massachusetts, women were expected to behave under biblical law and under a theocracy society where people were told what to do by a religious human power. The contemporary workforce still reflects the imbalance of hysteria and a patriarchal society that we still leave today and we are influenced by the society and we are told…

The top of the Hierarchy scale is the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh was what would have been called a King in other civilizations. The Pharaoh was thought to be one of the Gods, but also human, making the society a theocracy. The second highest status on their hierarchy scale were the priests which were also the nobles, next were the soldiers, then the scribes, the fifth on the hierarchy scale are the merchants, next the farmers, then finally the slaves or servants,…

which controls political, social, and individual power. In this novel, Atwood portrays the living conditions people in Gilead are in through the view of a handmaid named Offred; a woman used as a commodity. Gilead leads a totalitarian Christian theocracy where individuals are constantly…