Belonging the Crucible, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm Essay Example
Without comprehension one cannot fully belong, but with comprehension, belonging will thrive. If you do not understand someone or their beliefs or someone does not understand you or your beliefs it is not likely you will feel like you completely belong with them. In Arthur Millers The Crucible intolerance, hysteria and suspicion, greed (for wealth, land, power)and corruption of power turns a town against each other and highlights the different groups in the town and how they are linked or exiled from the rest of the town and how better understanding of each group could effect this.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the different views and beliefs of Ralph and Jack and the need for power in both boys’ segregates the group and the loss of innocence and humanity turns the group away from civilisation and towards Savagery. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm manipulation of society and breakdown of laws and class stratification, demonstrates the workings of a society as a whole and the different groups which cause a society to thrive or fail.
The Crucible tells the story of the Salem witch hunt of 1692 although it was not written and published until 1953 when the suspicion against the communists in America was as its height. Intolerance is a reoccurring theme in the crucible, the town of Salem was a theocracy so when John Proctor and Giles Corey, and others spoke out against the trials in order to defend their wives or themselves this was seen as an attack on the Government and the Church as well as God, Danforth states
“A person is with the court or the must be counted against it there is no road in between”
In Salem if you don’t belong to God you belong to the devil that is seen as responsible for the acts of witchcraft therefore you are seen to be a part of witchcraft. The towns people lack of understanding towards things they perceive as supernatural is blemed on witchcraft so they feel the have a sense of understanding towards it.
The people
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the different views and beliefs of Ralph and Jack and the need for power in both boys’ segregates the group and the loss of innocence and humanity turns the group away from civilisation and towards Savagery. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm manipulation of society and breakdown of laws and class stratification, demonstrates the workings of a society as a whole and the different groups which cause a society to thrive or fail.
The Crucible tells the story of the Salem witch hunt of 1692 although it was not written and published until 1953 when the suspicion against the communists in America was as its height. Intolerance is a reoccurring theme in the crucible, the town of Salem was a theocracy so when John Proctor and Giles Corey, and others spoke out against the trials in order to defend their wives or themselves this was seen as an attack on the Government and the Church as well as God, Danforth states
“A person is with the court or the must be counted against it there is no road in between”
In Salem if you don’t belong to God you belong to the devil that is seen as responsible for the acts of witchcraft therefore you are seen to be a part of witchcraft. The towns people lack of understanding towards things they perceive as supernatural is blemed on witchcraft so they feel the have a sense of understanding towards it.
The people