Examples Of Prejudice In The Crucible

Intolerance is the unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differs from one’s own. People don’t stop and think about what issues their thoughts could really cause, so they end up stating what they think. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Often times, people tend to judge people based off of a single idea, whether or not it is true or in correct context. They end up truly hurting a person by doing so. The Puritans, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Red Scare are three great examples of this. If we, as humans, synthesize together, we can end the hostility towards one another. The Puritans were people who protested to have their church back, so that they could continue their worship and fulfil their own religious beliefs. They were harshly judged upon those personal beliefs: “They appeared in drama and satire as secretly lascivious purveyors of feigned piety” (Puritanism 2). They received rude titles from people who never truly tried to understand who they really are. If people tried to understand them, they would have realized that all they wanted to do was support their beliefs freely, just as everyone else does. All people ever

They say you are innocent until proven guilty, but intolerance makes that hard: “The three accused witches were brought before the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and questioned even as their accusers appeared in the courtroom in a grand display of spasms, contortions, screaming, and writhing” (Trials 2). The ones charging the three people for being witches act more suspicious than the ones being accused. It just goes to show that people will do anything to see the people they dislike in a bad position. People should stop and think about what their harmful opinions can do in the long run, not just to them or who they want to see hurt, but to every