Posted on January 27th, 2008 at 5:45 pm by isabelleemerald and
It’s about the Salem Witch Trials.It’s really nothing new with all the movies and lessons about it covered in elementary school. Even an episode of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” is related to the same topic. Libby claims Sabrina’s friend is a witch, which is ironic. It’s all the same, senseless girls making up lies to simply get themselves out of trouble. The people around them lack logic as well. They believe anything they are told. Personally, the most frustrating aspect of the Crucible was that despite the irrationality of the girl’s lies, everyone else was falling for it. John F. Kennedy said “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
Link Here | January 28, 2008,
you defenitely stole my background young lady! All is forgiven because I enjoy Sabrina The Teenage Witch and admire JFK. I think that’s a really good quote. I’m not sure if it actually fits the crucible but it does fit everyday life, especially in highschool. A way I would apply that quote to the Crucible is that while the accusers were deliberate liars their lies were believed because of the myths that people had stuck in their minds, giving myths more power than the actual false testimony alone.
mrslabeouf
Link Here | February 1, 2008,
I can see how you would make the connection to Sabrina the Teenage Witch because it’s on the topic of witches, but I think Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a little less intense than the salem witch trials. In Sabrina the teenage witch, they make being a witch seem cool and fun, however in The Crucible, being a witch is the very last thing that you would hope for. I’m not putting down your ideas, but I would have to say that The Crucible isn’t just the same old same old. To me, The Teenage Witch, and those kind of “Disney” shows, where everything ends up happy,can’t be compared to something serious like the witch trials where people were really imprisoned and hung for a crime that they might not have committed.
Lynn Johnson