Examples Of Scapegoats In The Crucible

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In this society that we live in today i believe that we blame others of the problems and we have and maybe have caused upon ourselves. This happen a lot in the crucible because in salem (1692-1693) since witchcraft was brought up that made people look at those who ever did them wrong before and use the witchcraft problem as a solution to get revenge on them. This happen before in the past such as the holocaust which was mainly against the jewish people and others, and also a time when 9/11 happen and how the outcome came out for most muslims that were considered scapegoats.
During the holocaust time era the people that were scapegoats for the germans were the jewish people and the “degenerates” such as homosexuals, communists, gypsies, and …show more content…

Like in the holocaust the people who were targeted towards being scapegoats were the jews, homosexuals, communists, gypsies.They were targeted since the germans needed someone to place all their problems on so they picked those varieties of people to be blamed for poverty, wars, and all the other problems that germany had. Both the crucible and the holocaust shared the same ending because both endings had tons of death due to the scapegoating situation. In the holocaust there were about 6 million deaths and in the crucible there were 23 deaths. It may not seem a lot compared to the holocaust death count but they share the same reason of death for being a scapegoat for other people's problems. Also like what happen after 9/11 with the muslims, people were always frantic whenever they heard about islamic faith or muslims in general since people thought of terrorist. With the three connected they all had mass hysteria after innocent groups of people were blamed for something they haven't even done and paying for other people's mistakes and problems not their