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This 3 page paper discusses those events in the play “The Crucible” that have parallels in society today. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of an entire community and cause it to commit horrible crimes. This paper draws parallels between the society Miller described and the United States today. Discussion When Barack Obama was
elected in November, 2008, many Americans, along with most of the rest of the world, breathed a sigh of relief. The election of a young, progressive President signaled the end
of one of the ugliest periods in recent American history, marked by violence, mistrust, unilateral declarations of war and a suspicious, not to say paranoid government that spied on its
own citizens. President Bush, apparently with the acquiescence of most Americans (though its hard to find anyone today who says they supported him) sent troops to Afghanistan, invaded Iraq, arrested
and executed the head of another sovereign nation, and did it all in a climate of hysteria and dread. The idea that the U.S., having been attacked once would invariably
be attacked again, was used to justify extraordinary measures, such as the "No-fly" lists of people who were not allowed to board airplanes, and the proposed program (thankfully shot down
by an outraged Congress) that would have encouraged Americans to turn in those who they felt were "suspicious." The hysterical nature of the Bush Administration and its continual claims that
we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In the United States, the danger is Al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations whose intent it is to
destroy our way of life. In the play, the danger is Satan, and the way he is thought to work through others to entice decent people to abandon God and
turn to evil. The idea of the outsider as evil is a very long one; there is a name for it: the "Other." The Other is the person who is
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