Collective Injustice In The Crucible

Individuals must stand in opposition to collective injustice. By the end of the summer in 1692, twenty three innocent citizens of Salem, Massachusetts had lost their lives to the tyranny of the Salem witch hunts. By the end of the year 1956, countless U.S. citizens were victims of a second witch hunt which destroyed careers, friends, and lives. This is why there should be opposition against collective injustice. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible innocent people were getting accused and punished for witchcraft, when in fact they were not guilty. There should have been more freedom of speech among the people to where they could stand up for what is right without being accused. In order for collective injustice to terminate, individuals must

Collective injustice is an action that is taken against a group of people. The courts in salem were guilty of collective injustice. To understand the issue we need to look at statistics of innocent people found guilty during the Salem Witch Hunt. Nineteen people were hanged, one person was tortured to death, and four people died in prison while awaiting the trial. This may have been prevented had someone stood up against the court for what is right. Collective injustice needed someone to oppose against

In Arthur Miller’s time, when the Red Scare was happening; they were accusing people of being a communist. If someone was being accused and spoke another person’s name they would automatically be accused. During this time it did not matter who the person was, even upcoming actors were accused and their careers ended. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in response to what happened during the Red Scare. In relation to the Salem Witch trials, the court was doing the same things to the Puritans because they had the power to. If anyone was to speak out against them they were accused immediately of being a witch. This is when opposition to collective injustice needed to