How has the exploration of “The Crucible,” deepen your understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world?
“The Crucible” helped me understand many different aspects of decisions that you make that affect your life, but dishonesty is the one topic that really opened my eyes to understand how important it really is. I realized how many different directions you can take a lie and turn it into a snowball effect, touching different areas that focus on family, relationships, life, future and everything in between. I learned that dishonesty can turn your life upside down regarding different aspects of your life. “The Crucible” touches on how Abigail, who took one little lie to protect herself, ended up harming the entire town of Salem. In our society, people are dishonest every day in an abundance of situations. People either lie to make themselves feel better, to save their families and relationships, for their reputation and so much more. In society, for most people, it is difficult to realize that lying will do more harm for you in the future than telling the truth. People don’t really see the big picture but just focus on how dishonesty can save them from one certain situation, but other events will piggyback onto this lie to create a bigger problem overall. In our world, it seems like news stories, pop culture events, and world problems have something to do with dishonesty. It’s an occurring problem that not only has consequences for the ones involved but for the liar themselves and the entire public. Just like how in “The Crucible”, almost the entire town lied to save themselves from a small situation that ended up tarnishing everybody else in Salem. Overall, “The Crucible” helped me better understand the real and harsh impact that dishonesty causes in our society.
How have you personally connected to, “The Crucible?”
Personally, “The Crucible” helped me better understand how society works. While Cristina and I were working on our Twitter story, we realized how many different directions dishonesty could take people, all touching on a different aspect of life. Not only do people lie to protect themselves, but also for their reputation, for others and so much more. “The Crucible” helped me better understand how important one person’s decision is for the world. The play shines a light on how to be more careful in situations where you might think of lying. It’s extremely important to think about the future in these situations, how it can affect others and the world. “The Crucible” contains many topics that are still relevant in society today, which helped understand the importance of this play and the impact of the story in Salem. “The Crucible” reminds me of the times where I have lied, not realizing the consequences that would arrive later to me in the future. It is always important to realize the true impact that dishonesty has, and how important of a role it plays in society today. If we want change, we must realize the harm dishonesty has in our world, and that it takes us to realize that to start making a change.
For chronological order of the Twitter story, scroll down to the bottom as the first tweet in our Twitter story starts at the bottom and advances to the top. The project theme is in the bio of the Twitter account (under the profile picture)
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