Effects Of Oppression In The Crucible
Hysteria and oppression added more flames to the fire of the Salem witch trials during the 1960s. Because of this, innocent commoners were convicted and hanged. Arthur Miller creates characters in his play The Crucible that add to the hysteria and are victims of oppression, which reveal the unjustness of these trials. Tituba, a black slave in the town of Salem, was the main character who experienced such unjust treatment. The outlook on race in The Crucible has a very negative effect on the people of a different race in Salem. Blacks were constantly discriminated because of their skin color, and they were often enslaved, tortured, arrested, and imprisoned for any accusation made against them. People of other races were often made scapegoats
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Confessing to the accusations is the only way a slave will be left alone: “John, Tituba’s husband, constantly reminded her that a slave must always survive and they need to do whatever it takes to make it” (Quarterly 12). No matter what the truth is, a slave must confess to what they are being tried for, just to see another day of life. Outsiders who are also slaves had a very difficult choice, whether they want to lie and confess to what a white man is accusing them of, or stand for what they believe and possibly …show more content…
Blacks were constantly discriminated because of their skin color, they were often enslaved, tortured, arrested, and imprisoned for any accusation made against them,and people of other races were often made scapegoats because they were outsiders. There were not many African Americans in the town of Salem,Massachusetts, causing the ones that were there to be picked out and picked on, which created a negative atmosphere. A lot of pointing of fingers went on in the town because of the hysteria. Most of the blame fell on African Americans causing them to be tortured and put in prison for a crime they did not commit. Social status played a large part in the Salem witch trials. A great amount of judgement came with scapegoating, most of the people who were made scapegoats were
Confessing to the accusations is the only way a slave will be left alone: “John, Tituba’s husband, constantly reminded her that a slave must always survive and they need to do whatever it takes to make it” (Quarterly 12). No matter what the truth is, a slave must confess to what they are being tried for, just to see another day of life. Outsiders who are also slaves had a very difficult choice, whether they want to lie and confess to what a white man is accusing them of, or stand for what they believe and possibly …show more content…
Blacks were constantly discriminated because of their skin color, they were often enslaved, tortured, arrested, and imprisoned for any accusation made against them,and people of other races were often made scapegoats because they were outsiders. There were not many African Americans in the town of Salem,Massachusetts, causing the ones that were there to be picked out and picked on, which created a negative atmosphere. A lot of pointing of fingers went on in the town because of the hysteria. Most of the blame fell on African Americans causing them to be tortured and put in prison for a crime they did not commit. Social status played a large part in the Salem witch trials. A great amount of judgement came with scapegoating, most of the people who were made scapegoats were