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Examples Of Stereotypes In The Crucible

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During the Salem Witch Trials, The McCarthy Era, modern day, and every other time in between, there have been gender stereotypes. The male stereotype portrays men to be the strong, aggressive, protective figure. A man is not supposed to show emotion. If he does show emotion, it should be aggressive, not weak. The character of John Proctor is the stereotypical man in The Crucible, not only emotionally, but also physically. Up until the point where John was going to lose his name, he showed no emotions that made him seem vulnerable; he showed only the characteristic of masculinity. The personality change that takes place when John loses his name really intensifies how important is identity is. Common words to used in a stereotypical male description
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In the story John was described as, “a farmer in his middle thirties… He was the kind of man-powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led” (Miller 148). In the story, Proctor serves as one of the main protagonists, a thirty-something year-old man who saw the corruption in the witch trial system before many of the other characters in The Crucible. However, the historical John Proctor was a man in his sixties. This change was made in order to shape the character of John Proctor into the protagonist that he is in The Crucible.

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In 1692 hundreds of people were sitting in jail for being witches, but none of them were really witches. An author named Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible based of the true events of the Salem witch trials. In the play some girls get in trouble for dancing in the woods. They claim the witches were making them do these bad things. The girls accused a lot of people and got a lot of people of hang for being witches.

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Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. In the book the Crucible there are many hypocrites some dishonest some just following any one to be guilty, but one of the many character is Judge Danforth he mocks Marry when he ask "How were you instructed in your life? Do you not know that God damns all liars?"(3-84), since Danforth is in power for being the judge he thinks that everyone else is ignorant and not being equal as him.

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Many people today are very superstitious and prejudice, there are many ways to eliminate these things but nobody wants to fix the problem. Being superstitious and prejudice is where you believe something but you really don’t know about it, and there are no facts to prove it. In The Crucible there were a lot of examples of people being superstitious and prejudice. Some steps to stop this problem would be getting to know things that you are superstitious and prejudice about, ask questions, and don’t believe everything you hear.

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