Racial Minorities
The Salem Witch Trials started between 1692 and 1693. The Crucible, an allegory written by Arthur Miller, goes into the hard life of the ones who got accused of witch-craft with the town. Although the Salem Witch Trials place many years before racial discrimination, which is parallel by the specific groups targeted, society tending to stereotype, and victims being accused with no facts; this unfair treatment to the U.S. minorities has to be stopped.
Many racial minorities struggle to stay away from racial groups to avoid fear of being rejected. The main groups targeted are “racial, ethnic, gender, and religion” (Schaefer). The characters of The Crucible are walking through the town in fear of being put into some type of discussion with the other citizens.
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Blumberg explains how, "more than 200 people were accused of witch-craft." The Crucible has no facts on the ones who were hung or pushed, just false accusations. The town wanted written confessions from the accused people, and they were not going against what they believed to do so. They rather die from the beliefs, than to stay alive from a lie. Miller tries to explain, "The Crucible was an act of desperation" (1213). Arthur Miller tries to explain the Salem Witch Trials through this novel and the movie, by giving detailed scripts to put an imaginable thought into the readers mind. They can keep up with the novel by being able to picture how it goes or how they wish for it to go. An article also states that, "...more than 250 years later- that Massachusetts formally apologized for the events of 1692" (Blumberg). The readers may have various opinions on what The Crucible is trying to explain throughout the book. Not all of the readers may be able to relate real-life situations to the story, which is a reason that writing this could put a different view in someone's