The Crucible Reputation is the manner that others identify you as an individual. A person’s reputation can be a very powerful characteristic, good or bad. Throughout The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s characters had difficult decisions to make, all of which would affect the way that others viewed them as an individual. The reputations of each individual within Salem largely dictated his or her fate in the outcomes of the trials. In the witch trials, the dominant social structure was those who had a position of power.
Hysteria leads the people of Salem to believe that those who were friends are executing witchery and associating themselves with the devil. The continuous accusations of witchery present the people of Salem with a chance to redeem long-term grudges. The abundant case of Abigail Williams uses the current situation to indict charges on Elizabeth Proctor, having her sent to jail. Not to be entirely blamed, Reverend Parries also pronounces his placement in society by accusing the people who question his authority. Hysteria can prosper from those who feed off of it.
I didn’t know her, but she was crying on the phone, saying there were things that she’d done in her past, childhood cruelties that she had never recovered from never even told her husband about. Another phone call came from a writer who said the case had drawn him back to a terrible incident at Eton, when he stabbed a boy with a penknife.” He conveys his message of his article through this quote by reflecting the case on Jill Tweedie and the anonymous writers horrible past. This gives the readers a better view on the case, and perhaps it gives them a better base and understanding of Jon and Thompson killing. I would say that this article is very reliable and biased, because of his level of arguments and its relevancy. He wants to show and explain, why they did these horrible
Case Study Journal The case study “Sharing the Secret” is a gripping examination of adults having to hide and secretly deal with their experience with incest. Molestation is horrible but incest takes it to a whole neither level, and this case study shows the hardships and tribulations that someone has growing up after being a victim of incest. The most aggravating part of the study for me was the fact that all of these women had been pretty much brainwashed by their attacker. It relates to the subject of Public and Private Selves in our class text book. These women, after being victimized, are under an extreme amount of mental turmoil and because of their age the girls aren’t well respected by adults.
It can also be argued that Puritan society is what molded him to be that way. The townspeople were extremely harsh on Hester Prynne for committing an act of adultery. While judgment for such an action is to be expected, the extent of the cruelty was unwarranted. “At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead. Madame Hester would have winced at that, I warrant me.
Running head: MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA REFLETION PAPER Mental illnesses are conditions that are stigmatized against locally and globally. Individuals with mental illnesses have been stigmatizing throughout history. They are considered as dangerous and aggressive, which in return increased their risk for social isolation. During the middle ages individuals with mental illnesses were treated very poorly. The society believe back then and even today in some cultures that individuals with mental disorder were possessed with some kind of evil spirit, therefore, they used exorcisms, starvation, torture, and even death to rid the person of evil.
She failed to meet the usual characteristics one would expect from a female serial killer. The media frenzy that ensued during this case was immense and as a result, the general public was out for blood. Aileen was quickly labeled a monster, but was she really? Or were the atrocities she suffered as a child so great that she never recovered? Her actions were inexcusable; however, looking over the course of her life, one can’t help but wonder if she were always destined to commit some terrible crimes.
The people of the town were pressured, accused, and tested simple tests but the girls would scream with such pain whenever the accused spoke. The victims, the girls, and the judges all were consumed in the anarchy and lost all sanity. Were people convicted of not only being witches in Salem but across the country suspicion arose and people convicted women of being witches for the simplest causes. Two girls took a joke way too far and caused disorder across the country. Not all "witches" were from Salem, MA.
The embodiment of this dynamic view of reality lies in Nathanael's misguided perception of women. The reader is presented with a mad man, spinning a web of delusion speckled with neurotic behavior, and is influenced by a hesitant curiosity invoked by the intricacy of what seems to be nothing more than paranoia. However, the key to Nathanael's madness lies, not in this perception of women, but in his obsession to maintain control over his surroundings. Nathanael's perception of women is simply a product of childhood trauma which instilled in him an inherent fear of inferiority. This fear later resurfaces and influences Nathanael to project his inferiority onto female characters, as they are the most vulnerable.
Court system then and now Back in 1692 in a town of Salem there was a mass case of hysteria and a disgrace to the American court system. Due to this flaw in our court system it has positively affected the court system. If it wasn’t for the flaws they found out during the Salem witch trials the court system would still be shame on America; however it did have a positive effect on the court system by creating the need for unbiased judges, fair juries, and hard evidence for conviction. During the Salem witch trials there was a problem with judges which caused major problems because many people were hung as a result of a biased judge. They would only have one point of view of people in Salem and many were falsely accused of being witches.