Crucible, Act II

HOW THE CRUCIBLE, ACT II, REPRESENTS TODAY
What ways does the Crucible, Act II, represent today? You could say Elizabeth represents a victim of society. Hale a confused leader. Or even Cheever of being someone who believes in what they see without any reasoning. Throughout Act II, many characters represent and satirize life in America in many different ways.
Cheever represents someone who believes in what they see without reasoning. He proves this with the poppet incident at the Proctor’s house. You definitely see this a lot in America. The perfect example is an ad on TV during a commercial. People see something good and without even thinking about the consequences, they go ahead and buy and totally waste their money. Giles Corey reminds me of this type of person also. During the feud at the Parris’s household, he contributed to the witch hunt conversation by saying that his wife, Martha, reads books. He did not think about what he was doing and later that would come back and haunt him. All of these false accusations and people not thinking create victims in life.
The prime example of a victim is Elizabeth. Throughout the play, she is a loyal citizen never doing any harm but is falsely accused of being a witch all because of a mistake her husband made which led to it. A good example from American life would be what happened to the guy from Gasway outside of Saint Clair. After the 9/11 incident, he was beat up because of his race. He was falsely accused all because of what one leader chose to do. Now also because of that leader’s choice, people in the Middle East are suffering everyday having to live through a war. Now with people believing in what they see and being falsely accused, someone has to help the situation, right?
Reverend Hale of Beverly represents a leader in confusion. Throughout the Act, Hale does not know what decision he should make; do what I am told or help the people who are right but are being falsely accused. Hale, to me, satirize people who are voting for this year’s presidential election. Citizens can’t decide who the better candidate for president is. This hard decision then lead citizens to vote for who is more popular or who most people are voting for. The eligible voter should pick who they think is the right one to lead the country. Reverend Hale could also represent a teenager. Throughout my high school career, I could say that there has been many of times where I needed to make tough decisions and did not know what to do.
All of these representations can paint a picture of life in America. You could tell how Arthur Miller is trying to satirize American life and how well he does it. What I learned from the Crucible, Act II, is always stand up for what you believe in and never let anyone changed that.

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I think the Crucible is still relevant to our society today. The fight against terroism represents the witch hunts back in 1692. Ever since September eleventh, everybody has the fear of terroists and the fear of the what may happen if they attack. The government has become strict with airplane travels and flying in and out of the country. Right now our Army is fighting against terroism and is trying to protect our country. All of these attacks against terroism are similiar to the attacks against witches in the Crucible. Also, the whole reason the witch hunts started in the Crucible is all because Abigail wanted John Proctor as her love and the whole reason the attacks on September eleventh began is because of differences of beliefs and the idea of more power.