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Similarities Between The Crucible And The Lottery

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“Change does not change tradition. it Strengths it. change is a challenge and an opportunity. not a threat”, according to prince Philips from England. In relation to The crucible and “The lottery” both didn't want to change their customs because of what people could think. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller, about the witchcraft trials that happened in Salem, Massachusetts. A group of girls accuse people doing witchcraft because they are afraid that they will be punished for doing witchcraft themselves. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story where a town puts the citizen’s name in a box each year. One name is drawn and this person is stoned to death. These stories believe that by killing it’s either for their own salvation …show more content…

they believed what they did was right. in “the lottery”they believed that by killing people more crops would come old man warner mentions “ lottery in june, corn be heavy soon” (297). They believed that by doing this more crops will come. Not knowing that it wasn’t fair to other people. The people in the village have done it other years so that’s what they believe now . Likewise, in The Crucible Mr.Hales also mention “ the devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone” (41). Anything unusual that they would do would be seen as a devil witchcraft. With this the judges would take any word from anyone who accuses anyone else with witchcraft and they would be punished and accused as guilty until proven …show more content…

In “The Lottery” the author says “the people had done it so many times that only half listened to directions…” (296). By this, the author means that the people do it so often that it's now part of them. They take it as nothing and they won't take change because they're afraid something in their lives might change. In The Crucible when they were being asked who saw the devil and who was with him, in order for them not to get punished, Betty said, “I saw Goody Howe with the devil! I saw Goody Barrow with the devil!” (29). In addition, the girls started screaming names and they followed to what Betty was saying but this didn't bother them because no one really liked any of the people they had mentioned. It wouldn't matter if those people died, the girls would be saved by

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