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This is a 12 page paper that provides an overview of social compliance in "The Crucible". The argument is made that social compliance is achieved by the state exploiting societal guilt through various instruments of power. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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above quote by Arthur Miller is in reference to his seminal play, "The Crucible", and reveals much about the themes of that work. The "false confessions" delivered by accused Puritans
in the text are commonly regarded as being an allegorical reference to the similar confessions elicited from Millers 1950s contemporaries facing charges of Communist sympathies at the hands of a
hysterical Senate sub-committee that bore more than a few similarities to the Puritan society of John Proctor and Reverend Parris. Miller states that the respective institutions of power in "The
Crucible", the historical Salem, and 1950s America were able to motivate false confessions by exploiting a sense of guilt already instilled in society; in other words, the societies in question
were inculcated with a pervasive sense of guilt that found a sublimating expression in the false confessions of witchcraft and Communist sympathizing. In Millers book and in Puritan society, this
guilt stemmed from the widespread cultural view that man was inherently sinful and worthless, and in the McCarthy era, from the widespread cultural view that sympathizing with the ideology of
Communism was traitorous and un-patriotic. Whatever the source, however, Millers contention in "The Crucible" was to portray the idea that social compliance is often maintained as a result of the
purposeful exploitation of societal guilt by dominant power structures. Passages from the play will be used to demonstrate how this exploitation occurs by means of the following instruments of power:
the generation of hysteria through conflating political and moral issues, and the promotion of compliance by directly threatening individuals reputations and livelihoods. This paragraph helps the student present an overview
of the manner in which Miller portrays social compliance as the result of the conflation of political and moral issues. The characters interactions in "The Crucible" suggest Millers stance that
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