In all countries, religions, and cultures people are expected to live a certain way. For instance in puritan times people were expected to wear plain concealing clothing, and were supposed to live their lives by the bible.For example in the book “ The Scarlet Letter” Hester Prynne was shunned from society for committing adultery. In many ways people let society control who they are. In the story The Crucible many people are sentenced to death due to false superstition. The reason for these false superstitions, was a well respected reverends slave tituba merely playing childish games with the reverend's daughter and niece along with some other village girls in the woods. When the girls got caught dancing ( which was considered a sin back then) it was a natural instinct to lie to save themselves from trouble. With the popular superstition of dark entities like witches and demons, what better way to get out of trouble than to accuse the slave that accompanied you as …show more content…
In the story People look at George and Lennie as weird and strange because they looked out for each other. This was uncommon for two men to do during the great depression especially since Lennie was mentally unstable and George had no relation with him. In those times people like lennie were not common and many people looked at him as a freak, but only because they did’nt take the time to get to know him and realize that he was just a little different. Society often misunderstands situations because everyone always jumps to conclusions, for instance in the beginning of the story Lennie reaches out to touch a woman's dress, when she screamed it scared Lennie so by instinct he squeezed. By doing this Lennie also scared the woman, when George got Lennie to let go of the dress the woman ran to town and told everyone he tried to rape her, because of this Lennie and George had to flee the town and search for a new