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Scapegoating in Society In Bill Moyers interview with Margaret Atwood, she states “When societies come under stress these kinds of things happen. People start looking around for essentially human sacrifices” (?). A scapegoat is a person or a group of people who are punished for the mistakes of others. In the history of our society, scapegoats have been both necessary and important. The reason for this is because it unites people and can be seen as a temporary solution to problems that a society

Lies Have Consequences A single lie can ruin your reputation. In the Crucible, having trust on someone is essential to a person, and you can be in a risky situation and make a mistake to protect a person. The play has viewed that people's errors can lead to severe consequences. In the play, Proctor had lied to Elizabeth’s face about being alone with Abigail. Proctor determines that he cannot lie anymore because his name is all he has considered for since he has lost it all. In Arthur Miller’s play

you were pretty much considered dead; For those in the Witch trials, if you were mentioned then you were most likely going to be hanged. There were ways to temporarily get out of being hanged in the witch trials, usually being pregnant worked as well as admitting you saw the devil even if you didn't. Using the pregnant excuse would usually hold you off from being hanged for a year until the baby was born because it was said that even if the mom was a witch the baby was considered innocent (footnote)

The influence this sentence has on the reader is commanding. Elie channels all his doubt, anger and mistrust into thirty-one powerful words. That is regarded as phenomenal diction. As mentioned earlier, there is a part in Night where a young boy is hanged for conspiring against the Nazis. One man of thousands in the back of the crowd says “Where is merciful God, where is He?” (64). This man is the only one of all the imprisoned to have the courage to comment on the dire situation. This man packs the

Eric Edgar Cooke, normally going by the name of Edgar was nicknamed the “Night Caller”. He was an Australian serial Killer. Edgar Cooke was born in 1931 on 25th February. After dying on October 26th 1964, he was known for his notorious murders. He was born in Victoria Park in Perth, Western Australia and the eldest of three children. Cooke had been born into a violent family with a father as an alcoholic. When Edgar was young he would protect his mother from beatings from his father and roam the

replied “Before God, sir I do not know this man , and have never seen him, and I did hire him to dig a gutter for me”. It was a lie she did know that man, that man was Lewis Paine. Some people may say that it was right for Mary Surratt to have been hanged. However, even though she knew about the shooting irons, only one person new about the irons. That

witchcraft. In Salem, the court forced the people to admit they’re a witch otherwise they would be hanged John yelled, ‘’And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?” Mr. Proctor argued that people aren’t really witches it’s all lies they lie and say they are a witch because they don’t want to be hanged. John Proctor didn’t want to be killed either but he also didn’t want to give up his reputation and

Dimmesdale, which resulted in the birth of Pearl. If not for Hester being pregnant, she would have been hanged for the offense, in spite of the fact that she had not seen her husband in over two years; to her the best of her knowledge, he was deceased since he had not yet joined her in the new world. However, had she revealed the name of Pearl’s father, rather than being jailed, he would have been hanged; therefore she chose the lie of omission in order to save him. Her penance, in order to let everyone

reputation did not mean as much; due to the fact that people were not sure if they were involved with the devil, lying, or not. Later on Reverend Hale began to doubt if the accused “witches” were actually guilty. John was going to be saved from being hanged by signing to committing he was a part of witchcraft, but if he signed the paper everyone in the town was going to have a bad reputation of him. “Excellency, it is enough he confess himself. Let him sign it, let him sign it” (Crucible 141) and “No

Lastly, Odysseus treats people atrociously. For example, when Odysseus killed an abundance of his own men, who revolted against him, he demands a few women to drag the corpses into the courtyard, “As he spoke here came the women in a bunch, all wailing, soft tears on their cheeks. They fell to work to lug the corpses out into the courtyard” (XXll. 464-467). Nevertheless, Odysseus keeps on commanding the women to do more, “In fear these women bore the cold weight of the dead. The next thing was