Scapegoats

jump to the worst conclusion. People conform in ideas, actions, habits, and it can even go as far as race and culture. This is our biggest flaw; since throughout our history, we go out of our way to go after the one who is different in any way, “A scapegoat”, as some might call it. But why single out a person? This desire, according to Margaret Atwood, a successful author, is due to societal stress. According to her:” ...People start looking around for essentially human sacrifices. They start looking

In the play The Crucible, the use of scapegoats is rampant; the main use being to place blame onto others in order to deflect blame from themselves or to help reach a goal. Those that don’t agree with the majority or have differing ideas are outcasts and easily made scapegoats. Many of the scapegoats in the play can attribute the blame they receive to the antagonist, Abigail Williams. Three primary examples of people that are scapegoats because of Abigail are, the Parris’ servant Tituba, the Proctor’s

you ever heard of a scapegoat? Most of us have used one or one’s to get out of something, that meaning good or bad. People in the past have also used someone or something as a scapegoat(The salem witch trials- the townspeople- blamed witches and the devil for their bad crops, The people to the New World- blamed the indians for them dieing off by not knowing how to live off the land, even people today blame their siblings to get out of their punishments/chores, etc.) My scapegoat on the other hand

In order to gain favor with the native masses, it seems that many politicians have used immigrants has scapegoats. More to the point, when trying to find a way to isolate a country’s problems whether it be unemployment or the economy, most politicians try to find a scapegoat to blame for the mishaps of the country’s well-being. For example, when the Marijuana tax act of 1937 was passed its sole purpose was to halt the immigration of people from Mexico. Moreover, many blamed the immigrants from Mexico

The scapegoat was first seen in the 16th chapter of Leviticus, a book in the Bible. In this chapter, God told two leaders of Israel, Moses and Aaron, to make a sacrificial offering to rid the people of their sins. In obedience to God’s command, Moses and Aaron took two goats needed to perform the ritual. The first goat, which was to be sacrificed as a sin-offering, was killed and its blood was sprinkled on the Ark of the Covenant. The second goat was to be cursed with the sins of every Israelite

viewed the Jews at the time. To begin, events in Adolf Hitler’s life lead to his viewpoints and affiliations. Secondly, the creation of the Nazi Party was critical to the formation of Germany’s point of view. Lastly, Jewish people had been used as scapegoats for the loss of World War I and Germany’s economic crisis. To begin, events in Adolf Hitler’s life lead to his viewpoints and

currently and that is child pornography for logical viewpoint children can neither show nor give their consent. However, this is about pornography as a whole if it is once again being considered an issue or being a recurring scapegoat. Personally, I consider it as recurring scapegoat seeing this is not the first time it has been brought up.

a hostile family, violent films, or gory video games. Although sometimes this might be the case, a lot of the time it is not as black and white, making this topic very difficult to analyze and understand. Both Jonathan L. Freedman in “Villain or Scapegoat? Media Violence and Aggression” and L Rowell Huesmann and Laramie D. Taylor in “The Role of Media Violence in Violent

the legal and ethical responsibility for keeping their unborn child because they are directly responsible for having that child in the first place. Furthermore, if a woman cannot prevent an unwanted pregnancy, the unborn should not be used as a scapegoat.

Scapegoat: A Necessary Convenience of Society Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” shows society’s avoidance of change, need for a scapegoat. Each year people are given a chance to start over. An opportunity to set goals to live healthy, go back to school, save money, and advance in a current career. With goals comes change, and change is a challenge not often welcomed in many. Excuses, a personal scapegoat are made to avoid sticking to the change. Mark Twain took a look at New Year’s, as an annual