everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice. who hides and what is hidden? how does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on life in
It is difficult to tell why these jurors or the defendant acted how they did just as many people would now struggle to explain the fear of Communism that pervaded America at the time Rose wrote the play. Rose invites the audience to question their own motives, to inveigle some reason for their feelings on matters as wide ranging as those facing a 1950s audience – fear of those who are different, wars nations wage and celebrity trials – in the hope of finding some
After Oedipus accused Teiresias of being a liar, but then he accused Creon, his brother- in- law, of bribing Teiresias into lying to him and making him think that he was the murder. He believed Creon was after his position as king. Human beings are also quick to say something without thinking about it and end up saying something wrong or offensive to others. But Oedipus remain stubborn and didn’t believe Creon either when he trie to tell Oedipus that he doesn’t want to be king, just like humans would if they really wanted to believe that they were right. Our conscience is developed in a complicated way that can only know and hold certain knowledge.
March 3, 2012 The Cold War was an event that change the twentieth century The Cold War was between democratic and communism that was started by Senator Joseph McCarthy. While discussing anticommunism and McCarthyism they will find the differences between the two. The paper will also discuss how the media point of view covered anticommunism and McCarthyism, also how Americans foreign was determined anticommunism. Finally, they will discover how Americans’ lives have changed because of the Red Scare. The Cold War is discussed widely around the world and as huge impact on the fight between Republicans and Democrats about communism and anticommunism.
In the 1950's, however, people were terrified of the red Communists coming to take over their beloved country. Senator McCarthy was the one taking out other people in the govornment that he suspected to be a communist via inprisonment. The witch trials and McCarthyism started differently as well, for one started with a group of young girls' voodoo practice and the other started when senator McCarthy was trying to win an election and took advantage of the peoples feelings toward the "Red scare." A lot of the evil things McCarthyism did were private and behind closed govornment doors. During the Salem Witch Trials the accused people were forced to make a public confession and be killed in front of their family and friends.
McCarthyism in the 1950’s was the practice of broadcasting allegations of political treachery or rebellion with inadequate regard to evidence. The events that took place in the 1950’s concerning McCarthyism are what inspired Miller to write his play on the Salem witch trials of 1692. The fear of repeating the horrors of the past pushed him to try and open the eyes of those who seemed to be following a dangerous path. The Crucible and McCarthyism both contain instances of false accusation, wrongly gained power, and mass hysteria. Similarly to the Salem witch trials, McCarthyism started in a time of great fear, but instead of fearing witches that made pacts with the Devil, the people of the 1950’s feared communism.
The similar fear of the state's abuse of power and technology at the expense of human individuality present within these novels speaks to the relevance of these novels within their historical context and their usefulness for awakening people to the horrendous consequences of their ignorance. Eventually all the alienated characters come before some prophesising hand of the government who is ready to rationalize the right and duty of the government to possess such control over its people. In 1984 this is during the torture of Winston for his crime of not loving Big Brother. Orwell then reveals the horrors of an advanced dystopia through O’Brien such as the death of the individual, "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind.
With this in mind, the common attitude in the United States was, as it continues to be today, that communism is evil manifest in a government. For this evil to manifest itself in a government that is supposedly of, for, and by the people, created a fear that the devil, or evil in general, had found its way into people in the United States. And, similar to Hale’s ideas in The Crucible, who better for this evil to envelope than those in the government? Those who govern the United States are supposed to be trusted to uphold the values for which this country stands. The evil, the communists, would have nothing to profit from infiltrating those who wielded no power.
Antigone 11. It is clear that Sophocles’ is bias in this play and he sides with Antigone when she is in conflict with Creon. Sophocles depicts a conflict between family and politics through the characters of Antigone and Creon. Sophocles placed Antigone as more just and noble and as the protagonist, showing his views and criticism of his philosophies. This play suggested that familial values and love dominate political values.
John Proctor tried to keep his affair with Abigail from the court as long as possible until he pretty much had to break down and confess it. But instead of Abigail and the witch trials being exposed as a lie, Proctor is called a liar and then accused of witchcraft by the court. His sins being exposed destroyed him. THE CRUCIBLE is an excellent play that combines three basic ingredients for chaos. There wouldn't be any chaos without ideological insecurity, economic self-interest, and personal indiscretion throughout the characters.