Crucible Essay
Maliha Andalif ESSAY Mrs. Smith
Pd-7 12/13/12
An outlook on gender roles in today ‘s advanced society is drastic contrast to the views portrayed in the crucible written by Arthur Miller depicts women as weak . None of the females in crucible posses extreme power but the truthful pre-hearted and family oriented women seemed to be even less powerful than the others . Therefore, Miller has also shown women sufferance In crucible through interpretive evidence on how tituba was being accused for all witchcraft and how she demolished the puritan society rules. According to the document women are not as inferior as men , despite how literate they are , their always fictionalize as barmaids, bitches, whores, or brainless housewives .
In crucible ,Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca nurse are two of the powerless women characterized by Miller. Arthur Miller has also depicted the theory of objection of women through out crucible where Abigail Williams serves as the catalyst for the plays events .Hence, it is her false accusations which initiated the witchcraft hysteria in Salem (miller 11-13) .Therefore, sexism may be defined as the negative response to a threat that is either real or imagined. In society today, sexism plays major role in terms of image reputations and perceptions similarly in crucible puritan society was that women were required to be meek and yet protected by their honor , in order to that Women would be disciplined physically and publicly for not being modest, obedient, and quiet. Women who were out-spoken were typically targeted for accusations of witchcraft, as were women deemed to be too attractive and therefore guilty of "bewitching" men into lusting
Pd-7 12/13/12
An outlook on gender roles in today ‘s advanced society is drastic contrast to the views portrayed in the crucible written by Arthur Miller depicts women as weak . None of the females in crucible posses extreme power but the truthful pre-hearted and family oriented women seemed to be even less powerful than the others . Therefore, Miller has also shown women sufferance In crucible through interpretive evidence on how tituba was being accused for all witchcraft and how she demolished the puritan society rules. According to the document women are not as inferior as men , despite how literate they are , their always fictionalize as barmaids, bitches, whores, or brainless housewives .
In crucible ,Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca nurse are two of the powerless women characterized by Miller. Arthur Miller has also depicted the theory of objection of women through out crucible where Abigail Williams serves as the catalyst for the plays events .Hence, it is her false accusations which initiated the witchcraft hysteria in Salem (miller 11-13) .Therefore, sexism may be defined as the negative response to a threat that is either real or imagined. In society today, sexism plays major role in terms of image reputations and perceptions similarly in crucible puritan society was that women were required to be meek and yet protected by their honor , in order to that Women would be disciplined physically and publicly for not being modest, obedient, and quiet. Women who were out-spoken were typically targeted for accusations of witchcraft, as were women deemed to be too attractive and therefore guilty of "bewitching" men into lusting