The Crucible: Peer Pressure – Infographic

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How have you personally connected to, “The Crucible?”

After reading “The Crucible,” I was able to connect with many of the themes and lessons in the play. Over the course of the last few years of my life, I have experienced several of the different hardships represented in the play such as peer pressure, dishonesty, and religion. Since beginning high school, peer pressure and dishonesty are problems that I have encountered many times and have unfortunately become very familiar with dealing with. Although it may be difficult to remain truthful and resist pressure from my peers, I try my best to stick to my morals. However, I can easily relate to the feeling of wanting to be accepted by all and blindly following the actions of others because I behaved similarly not to long ago in middle school. Back then if someone higher up on the social ladder had asked me to do something, I would not hesitate to fulfill their request, not worrying about the consequences that might come from my actions. Another central theme that I personally connected to is the characters devoutness to God. I have grown up in the church and having been raised in a very religious family, I have basically been a Christian my entire life. My experiences certainly made it easier for me to understand and relate to many of the characters in the play because following any religion causes people to have to make sacrifices and I understand how difficult it can be to follow religious guidelines. The main focus for the majority of the characters in the play is to try to maintain their reputation and in doing so, they lie and cheat and judge one another. Although this play was written many years ago, I believe many of the themes in “The Crucible” are still relevant today and affect many different parts of my life.

How and why have you responded to, “The Crucible” in a personal, creative, and critical way?

For my project, I decided to use an infographic to show how I related the theme of peer pressure in the novel, to it’s relevance today. I chose to do an infographic because it allowed me to create a visual project that I was able to design and layout in the way that I wanted it. Throughout the process of creating my project, I was able to reflect and find connections to some of the different lessons and themes in the play and I critically selected which theme I thought was most relevant in the book and today. I creatively came up with an interesting form of presentation and used images and text to creatively explain the theme that I chose. I was also able to use my critical and creative thinking while choosing the examples that I wanted to use from the play, as there were many options to choose from, I had to select the one that I thought best represented the theme of peer pressure.

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