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Examples Of Scapegoation In The Crucible

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Cataclysmic Habitual Essences Salem’s unity, community, and perfection disintegrates with the town’s absurd ways of their daily life. Scapegoating and vengeance becomes a key component of the society’s everyday life; either trying to execute the actions, or evading the actions. Salem is a town where the accusing finger lays. Scapegoating is a way to incriminate others for their own abominable bungle. Throughout the play, a teeming amount of people get the accusing finger thrown at them. Abigail masters many talents, but her best talent; scapegoating, has convinced many of the people around her to disregard and free herself from possibly being accused. Abigail is in court and somehow the accusing finger is shifting towards her, to derail herself from that she screams: “She made me do it! She made Betty do …show more content…

Abigail, who becomes the main witness about her and many other girls dancing naked in the forest, is a very strategic accuser. For example, since she [Tituba], is a slave, that doesn’t have rights, and leads them in a dance in the forest, Abigail realizes that Tituba can possibly an easy target to scapegoat. Abigail is one of many people who causes Salem’s unity to disintegrate because trust is hard to gain and seek forth. Earlier in the play, Putman, a greedy, self-centered man, with great importance in Salem, holds the girls in the forest accountable of misleading the court into believing their pointing finger and illness. He claims that they are acting and it is all just to get revenge on the people who have irked them or even the devil. Putman says: “I have taken part in all your connections here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this. There are hurtful vengeful spirits layin’ hands on these children” (14). Putman believes that the spirits, meaning the devil, lurks

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After a sporting event, have you ever heard “We lost because of this person” or “It’s his fault we lost?” Well, this is an example of scapegoating. Scapegoating is the act of putting the blame of an event on to a specific person, or a group of people. Scapegoating plays a big role in some pieces of literature, especially The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is about the Puritan village of Salem Massachusetts back in 1692, during the witch hunts.

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller is filled with fear, betrayal, and mass hysteria. The witch hunts that took place in this book were merely a domino effect of fear brought on by accusation of witchcraft. This ‘theme’ is commonly known as ‘scapegoating’ and, in this book, is commonly used by Abigail. Abigail perfectly embodies the theme of scapegoating by betraying friends and family to slip under the scrutinizing eyes of her town.

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Poor Behavior in “The Crucible” Ever wonder why people dies in The Crucible? The impact of Poor Behavior is exhibited throughout The Crucible. Most of the characters act badly.

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The Crucible Analytical Essay In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller tells the story of the Salem witch trials taking place in Massachusetts in the very late 1600’s. The character Abigail becomes a known liar throughout the story by telling other that she sees the devil and makes accusations towards others about performing witchcraft. The story is an excellent example of lies multiplying. If a person lies, they will eventually create more lies because of the first.

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In the first Act, Abigail manipulates the girls into helping her lie about the forest “incident” in the beginning of the play. "Now look you, all of you we danced and Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam 's dead sisters, and that is all. Mark this let either of you breathe a word and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you." (Miller I, 20). In this quote, Abigail becomes aware of what she did in the forest along with the girl and threatens them to keep silence if they want to keep their lives.

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(I.465-472). Seeing Abigail cry, it suggests that Abigail’s affair with John Proctor has influenced her behavior in jealousy and lust as she strives for nothing more than her love for John Proctor. By only being heartbroken, Abigail is not to be fully blamed for the hysteria within the town as her actions are only based on desperate attempts to win John Proctor over, and no intentional harm whatsoever. However, on the other hand, Abigail cannot be excused with outside forces making her the way she is due to the fact that she has clearly had a choice in most of her decisions and actions throughout the witchcraft crisis. When Mary Warren, another girl involved in the forest incident, enters the court, she explains to Danforth, the judge, that the girls are lying and are only pretending to see spirits.

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The Scapegoat Problem and How to Fix It Humans have always found ways to exploit those lacking power and use them as scapegoats for problems that could not easily be fixed. This can be seen in Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible, which is about the Salem witch trials in 1692, as well as today in many third-world countries. Witch hunts have been a problem for centuries, with many innocent people dying because others believe that they are or try to make it seem as if they are evil by blaming them for natural disasters, death of people and animals, illness, and much more. Witch hunts remain a problem today in third-world countries where superstition is common and the resources needed to identify and fix problems are not.

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Salem in The Crucible from Arthur Miller is the home to chaos and murder due to witchery that is still unclear as to whether it happened or not. These events caused major changes in the characters from start to finish, at the same time a change in society. Furthermore, calling what happened in Salem a tragedy is an understatement when Salem is clearly in a state of anarchy. Similarly, authority is discontinued and Salem enters a “she said he said” state of mind which only further confuses Salem while also hiding the true slaughterer of innocent Puritan people right in front of their faces. Furthermore, this rising anarchy inhibits the people of logical thinking and hides major perpetrators right in front of them.

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In a small village called Salem, witchcraft and sorcery exist, however everyone is pointing fingers but not a single soul knows who is actually to blame for this nonsense. During this time period of hysteria, there are multiple scenes that are very questionable due to one person and one person only. Abigail is the one most responsible for the hysteria and witchcraft in Salem. She threatens the group of girls that accompanied her in the woods while they all danced. She has also lied about many things on multiple occasions in which causes an extreme amount of suspicion.

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Abigail is extremely concerned with her well-being and reputation. In Act One, Reverend Parris confronts Abigail about dancing in the forest, and, instead of confessing, she begins denouncing others. This illustrates how she is willing to allow others to be harmed because of her extreme fear. One example of this is when Abigail states, “Not I sir—Tituba and Ruth” (Miller 15). The character of the residents of Salem is not exceptional.

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