cruzing through the crucible
Throughout the novellas read this year, inequality was a major, reoccurring theme. The Crucible had prime examples of inequality, that, in the end, affected the lives of many innocent people.
The beginning of the novella shows some young girls, in trouble, who decide to take advantage of their communities faith, by creating a story of witches, to distract from their own mishaps. When these accusations begun to have harsh consequences for those accused, the girls could not stop lying for they were already to deep in their own bluffs.
Many of these accused were not treated as equals. Many did not receive their rights, and were sentenced to death unless they admitted to their actions, where they would be known as a witch for the rest of their lives. Tituba, an African slave was also treated as unequal. Not only was she a slave, and treated poorly for her skin color, but she was immediately accused for witchcraft, and was whipped for a crime she did not commit. Blacks were not the only ones with harsh punishments; Giles Corey was a white man who had slabs of stone laid on him until he admitted to committing witchcraft. He was not given a fair punishment for his crime, not given a trial by his peers, and certainly was not innocent till proven guilty. All of which go against our own Bill Of Rights that state the basic rights of man.
The beginning of the novella shows some young girls, in trouble, who decide to take advantage of their communities faith, by creating a story of witches, to distract from their own mishaps. When these accusations begun to have harsh consequences for those accused, the girls could not stop lying for they were already to deep in their own bluffs.
Many of these accused were not treated as equals. Many did not receive their rights, and were sentenced to death unless they admitted to their actions, where they would be known as a witch for the rest of their lives. Tituba, an African slave was also treated as unequal. Not only was she a slave, and treated poorly for her skin color, but she was immediately accused for witchcraft, and was whipped for a crime she did not commit. Blacks were not the only ones with harsh punishments; Giles Corey was a white man who had slabs of stone laid on him until he admitted to committing witchcraft. He was not given a fair punishment for his crime, not given a trial by his peers, and certainly was not innocent till proven guilty. All of which go against our own Bill Of Rights that state the basic rights of man.