Crucible Mean Girls
Brittany Denaé Allen
Mr. Player
Lit and Film
November 19, 2014
"She Knows Everything About Everyone, Thats Why Her Hairs So Big" : The Power of A Secret in The Crucible and Mean Girls Secrets are the ammunition in this girl battle within the novel and movie, Miller's The Crucible, and Waters' Mean Girls. Telling other people's secrets, and even just holding them can put a person in a position of power. This isn't a type of power that comes to you easily, the girls that become powerful work hard and covertly to do so. In both The Crucible and Mean Girls the girls with the secrets have bad intentions for using them, also the ones that use these secrets end up becoming "mean girls" in both works in the way that secrets and lies become them. In the movie Mean Girls secrets are used to get people higher on the social ladder. The main people who use this method of social progression are girls. The main character, Cady, befriends the group of "mean girls" at her new high school. Instead of just seeing how it feels to be one of the most popular girls in the school, the fame goes to her head as she proceedes to de-thrown the leader of the mean group, called the "plastics". After being homeschooled all of her life, Cady observed the other girls of the high school and realized that the way to have the upper hand on another girl is to get their deepest secrets. Cady was told by Janis that "[Gretchen] knows everything about everyone thats why her hairs so big" (Mean Girls). Cady is able to get the biggest secret out of Gretchen about Regina in which Gretchen replies, "I never told anybody that, because I'm such a good friend" (Mean Girls). The secret of Regina cheating on Aaron was the most powerful weapon that Cady used throughout the movie. By sharing that secret with Aaron Cady not only broke the two of them up, but she paved her way to became the new Queen. In this movie secrets are used sneakily, and when they cause drama these girls 'try to act like [they're] so
Mr. Player
Lit and Film
November 19, 2014
"She Knows Everything About Everyone, Thats Why Her Hairs So Big" : The Power of A Secret in The Crucible and Mean Girls Secrets are the ammunition in this girl battle within the novel and movie, Miller's The Crucible, and Waters' Mean Girls. Telling other people's secrets, and even just holding them can put a person in a position of power. This isn't a type of power that comes to you easily, the girls that become powerful work hard and covertly to do so. In both The Crucible and Mean Girls the girls with the secrets have bad intentions for using them, also the ones that use these secrets end up becoming "mean girls" in both works in the way that secrets and lies become them. In the movie Mean Girls secrets are used to get people higher on the social ladder. The main people who use this method of social progression are girls. The main character, Cady, befriends the group of "mean girls" at her new high school. Instead of just seeing how it feels to be one of the most popular girls in the school, the fame goes to her head as she proceedes to de-thrown the leader of the mean group, called the "plastics". After being homeschooled all of her life, Cady observed the other girls of the high school and realized that the way to have the upper hand on another girl is to get their deepest secrets. Cady was told by Janis that "[Gretchen] knows everything about everyone thats why her hairs so big" (Mean Girls). Cady is able to get the biggest secret out of Gretchen about Regina in which Gretchen replies, "I never told anybody that, because I'm such a good friend" (Mean Girls). The secret of Regina cheating on Aaron was the most powerful weapon that Cady used throughout the movie. By sharing that secret with Aaron Cady not only broke the two of them up, but she paved her way to became the new Queen. In this movie secrets are used sneakily, and when they cause drama these girls 'try to act like [they're] so