"The Crucible" And Cartooon Commentary?
Please Read The Linked Political Cartoons And Blog About How They Specifically Connect With Arthur Miller's Intent For Writing The Crucible and The Political Cartoons.
Please Quote Which Cartoon You Are Referencing When You Respond. This
blog response should be completed by 2:30p.m. on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015.
posted by Greg T at Friday, November 20, 2015
15 Comments:
I think the one that could relate the most to Arthur Miller's writing for the crucible is the comic of "You read books eh?". I think it is that one because the comic shows a ton of yelling and fighting that is going on over a certain conflict. That is very familiar with what happens in the crucible. Someone's actions have caused conflicting and fighting between the whole town as well as a ton of people. A certain action or event has caused argument and even some disagreement against others. The story of the crucible goes even further than that but I think it is one of the basic elements of the story relating to conflict
I think the political cartoon that could relate the most to Arthur Miller's writing for The Crucible is the comic strip named "You read books eh?". I think this one reflects The Crucible because it looks like all of the polititions are fighting about one single conflict in the world. This connects to The Crucible because the characters are focused on one single conflict which is the conflict of witchcraft. In the cartoon, the woman could be Abigail or Tituba and the two men yelling at her could be everyone who was throwing numbers and everything at them in Act 1 to figure out who all did the witchcrafting.
I think the political cartoons connect with the Crucible because it shows that America has done a lot of things that we are not proud of but that we brush it off and try to not think of it. In the Crucible people were executed over a subject that is completely ridiculous. We see an example of this in the comic that says its okay we are hunting communists. This shows how we justify our actions if we can win the emotions of our fellow Americans into doing something.
The political cartoons connect with The Crucible through many ways. The political cartoon "It's okay - We're hunting Communists" specifically connects to The Crucible because they both show how opinions can take over people's minds and that even if they don't personally agree with it, it's okay. Even if it's something bad like hunting communists or hunting witches, it is okay because other people think it is. The cartoon "You mean I'm supposed to stand on that?" connects because even though McCarthy was harsh and used abusive tactics, congress still believed and helped him. In The Crucible some of the opinions were harsh but people still believed them. The whole idea that these people were witches and could contact evil spirits was crazy and people believed it.
The cartoon "It's okay – We're hunting Communists “connects with The Crucible in many ways. The setting of the cartoon is a car driving through a crowd of people, and screaming "It's okay – We're hunting Communists". Driving the car is two politicians. This relates to the Crucible because like the people of Salem were making these accusations which lead to the witch trials, there excuse for all of the executions was that there were witches in their town. The people in the cartoon are jumping out of the path of the car, hoping not to be run over. The people of Salem were trying to save themselves from being accused so to do so they accused others, hoping that they would not be next.
The cartoon "Stand fast men they are armed with marshmallows" connects to the Crucible by Arthur Miller by telling that the Salem residence and the men in this cartoon are scared of everything and treat everything as if it where a major threat.
The cartoon "fire" shows the anti communist mentality that America had during the 1950s. This relates to the crucible because it shows how no one trusts each other and people are turning in their neighbors for being communist or in the Crucible's case for being a witch. The crucible shows when a group of people start accusing people that no one is safe and everyone will turn on each other much like the red scare.
The cartoon "Say, whatever happened to 'freedom-from-fear'?" and Miller's The Crucible both express the when fear is present freedom is not a priority. People will do whatever it takes to get rid of the fear even if that means giving up some freedoms. Miller wanted people to realize just how powerful of a motivator fear. He also wanted others to realize that people will do and believe anything because of that fear.
Courtney Caviness
I think "You Read Books, eh?" relates to the crucible because of all the conflicts happening in the crucible. It looks like more than one individual is involved, such as the crucible when basically the whole community is involved, like in the court scene.
The cartoon saying "You Read Books, eh?" related to the crucible because the whole community finds it weird that the kid is reading a book and they are all peer pressuring just like many of the court scenes in the crucible. This could be Abigail being interrogated in the picture.
The cartoon "It's okay – We're hunting Communists” shows a car running over innocent people, much like how Abigail didn’t care who was in her way because they were “hunting witches” in an effort to save themselves. It didn’t matter who they ran over as long as they were in the spotlight and still safe.
The cartoon "It's okay, We're Hunting Communists" relates to the Crucible in many ways. In Salem, everyone thought it was okay that they we're killing, almost even hunting "Witches". As long as it was a witch on trial they didn't care what they were doing to them. Whether it was being hung or burnt at the stake.
"Say, what ever happened to 'freedom-from-fear'?" relates to the court in the Crucible. The fear of being hung from pleading innocent to witchcraft or being forever shunned in their home town creates fear in the people, those who were accused would plead guilty when they were not only to save their lives. In the crucible the people did not have freedom from fear.
In the political cartoon with the guy putting out the torch relates to the crucible by someone taking a stand for something and its your choice if you want to trust that person or not.
The cartoon "fire" talks about the anti Communist times in the 1950s and this to me ties into the crucible by the people in the crucible are going on a anti witch hunt just like how we were on a anti communist hunt.
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