The Crucible And Cyber Bullying Similarities

As he has been known to supervise to the torture of women that were accused of being a witch. (Wikipedia, n.d.) At the time being a witch was seen as worshipping the devil through meetings, witchcraft and going against religious beliefs. This was pure evil. The women’s vulnerability made them do evil which created Macbeth's downfall (Stuva, missjenn, & priyaansh,

just like today, kids will follow along with their peers or parents. “And Lewis said it was all the fault of Martha Cory, the very same Gospel Woman that Ann had already accused. Like Ann, Lewis claimed that she saw Martha Cory’s spirit roasting a spectral man on a spit inside her fireplace”(Schanzer 45). If one person became afraid of another because they were seen doing strange things or wearing strange vestments, then they might convince others that the person is an imp or a witch/wizard. “Common history has painted Annand her young peers as selfish, vicious fakers who fueled the witchcraft trials out of boredom or spite.

These are the three witches that give the most trouble, but there are ways to avoid or settle any confrontation. Taking the first step into an online community, someone may notice a current controversy. This may even be something that is currently being discussed on a post, or two, or three. There will be one person, standing loud and proud, defending their ideas. This loud, and frankly annoying, voice is the “Culture Appropriator”.

Trials were made to many people that “supposedly” committed witchcraft; but, these trials were unfair. While chaos invaded Salem, some people were gaining power; witchcraft benefited them. Abigail Williams one of the most empowered of the play, controlled people´s mind

Causing many suspicion of demonic activity throughout the salem village, hysteria spread quickly as the population ascended to witchcraft creating the act of cynicism. Most conducted these suspicions though dissecting their physical and mental image meaning that most of the civilians would convert to supernatural explanations in order to assume the act of demonic possession and I quote “Good also had a reputation for holding a grudge and for muttering curses against those who crossed her, which would have alarmed her neighbours, not least because many people believed that such curses would work” ( The Salem Witch Hunt, p.69). This quote taken from Sarah Good’s bibliography confirms the suspicions of witchcraft as these sign were depicted as supernatural to the puritans perspective. Being fearful of the devil, most puritans believed that the abnormal should endure punishment as for these acts were created against the church law leading to christian ignorance and disbelief and I quote “They also show how easily people could become convicted that hostile neighbours were wielding occult forces against them”(The Salem Witch Hunt, p.69). Furthermore this explains the drought in the puritans point of view.

Have you ever wondered how many humans believe in fate writing their own story from birth to death? Through detailed prophecies of Macbeth’s fortune, Shakespeare develops a reoccurring pattern in the plot of the literature. These prophecies are told by the weird sister witches, whom Macbeth and Banquo encounter in the beginning of the play. The witches give Macbeth a fortune and then follow with Banquo’s future. The outcome of the fresh news is dependent on the reaction of the fortune’s receiver.

Then Macbeth himself repeats it later, just a little different though. Macbeth actually quotes in act 1 scene 3: “So fair is foul a day I have not seen.” This gives a suggestion link between Macbeth and the sisters. It is interesting that he hasn’t met not one of them yet., even though they have already conspired to meet with him. The witches seem to be the embodiment of the embodiment of the foul part of the phase. By this time, people are being very suspicious about witches believing that they were evil and that they should be burned.All three of the witches are assumed to be mean and untrustworthy.

In the year 1604, just two years before the play Macbeth was written, the law became you could be hung, burned, or tortured for being suspected as a witch. A critic from recorce.edu said “Whether Shakespeare himself believed in witches does not matter. He used them for his play, and many of his audience would have believed in them as thoroughly evil servants of the devil (Marotous).” Like many other times in shows or movies a piece is included because it part of the fad, except in this time the fad was just a little more deadly. According to Southern Utah University the way the viewed witches the complete opposite way we do. In Shakespeare’s time if you believed that witches were not real, then you would be thought of as crazy or that you even had potential of getting cursed yourself.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, which provokes many human actions of destruction. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the main theme portrayed by the characters was a hate fueled by jealousy. But not everyone in The Crucible was acting out of jealousy, some genuinely thought witchcraft was real and feared it, after all witchcraft is written in the Bible. The good Puritan people of Salem, Massachusetts filled with jealousy, greed, and fear took the idea of witchcraft and used it for their own personal gain. Abigail Williams used witchcraft in her plan to replace Elizabeth Proctor and as a scapegoat, while Reverend Samuel Parris used witchcraft to protect his namesake, and Reverend John Hale used witchcraft to further build up his witch

In some instances communities will even go to the extreme by blaming or executing a large number of people to fix their problems. Some people will even come up with delusional accusations to make it easier to scapegoat that one person or group. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is one example of this because in the story a community of people start executing other’s because they believe that they are witches. The poem by Margaret Atwood “Half-Hanged Mary” is another excellent example of scapegoating because they are also accusing