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The Crucible Research Paper

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The Crucible is a literary work that still greatly applies to our current world. The play represents irony, guilt, desire, accusations, peer pressure, lies, ignorance, truth, people who get lost, people who find their way again, and people who never left the path of truth and honesty. Our world still faces all of these issues. Often, in our society, people are eager to support a cause they know little to nothing about. It is human nature to want to be included and not left behind. This is a dangerous nature. It leads to people running up to any bandwagon they see and hoping on, no questions asked. We currently still face peer pressures, bullying, and false accusations. Most of which are inspired by jealousy, hate, fear, and the desired to be …show more content…

I’m sure that throughout the ages peer pressure has never lessened. Today we see it frequently in schools, the workplace, home, among friends, and on social media platforms. Additionally bullying is still very prevalent in our world. For some reason so many people are eager to degrade others for no valid reason. I recently experienced the effect of peer pressure. In class a week or so ago I was talking casually with a new friend when another boy came up. This boy was acting really nervous and off, which was out of character for him because he is typically a nice person. I sensed something was out of place with this situation as soon as I saw this boy 's friends across the room laughing with their phones out filming. The boy came up behind my friend and asked if he would kiss my friends neck. My friend is gay, so at this point I knew what was happening. I asked this kid what he was doing, he said it was a dare. He had been pressured to do it. Me and my friend made him leave, but this proves how powerful peer pressure can be, This boy, who in every encounter I’ve had with him, is kind, nice, thoughtful, and funny was over here harassing another person because he was told to by a couple of his friends. It remind me of when Abigail makes all these girls pretend witchcraft is real even if they didn’t want to, or wouldn’t have done it on their

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