American Influence On The Crucible

Politics lead to the founding of our country and has continued to have a major influence on all aspects of our lives, including literature. Politics influence not only what an author writes about, it influences what they write about. American literature has always been a major influence in the formation of our country. The writing of the Declaration of Independence to The Crucible have a place in American history. American literature has been used to rally troops for wars, give people hope in times of trouble, and used to show the American pride that runs true throughout America. Politicians use American literature to influence the new laws that are being put in place and affecting the American people.

The play The Crucible is based the on the political inconsistencies of the Salem Witch Trials. The play
He shows us that often times we don't even realize the literature we are reading is political,“That world contains many things, and on the level of society, part of what it contains is the political reality of the time – power structures, relations among classes, issues of justice and rights, interactions between the sexes and among various racial and ethnic constituencies. That’s why political and social considerations often find their way onto the page in some guise, even when the result doesn’t look terribly “political.”(Foster 63) If you look anything in writing it can be political from a story of a prince and a princess to a story of the United States, most stories, even if the author does not intend it to be, is influenced by what is going on at the time. Political is not limited to those who serve in Washington D.C., politics is all around us. “It is political” is heard in areas from a little league ballfield to leadership in a house of worship. Politics is in almost everything we do, and that includes our