Belonging the Crucible, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm

Without comprehension one cannot fully belong, but with comprehension, belonging will thrive. If you do not understand someone or their beliefs or someone does not understand you or your beliefs it is not likely you will feel like you completely belong with them. In Arthur Millers The Crucible intolerance, hysteria and suspicion, greed (for wealth, land, power)and corruption of power turns a town against each other and highlights the different groups in the town and how they are linked or exiled from the rest of the town and how better understanding of each group could effect this. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the different views and beliefs of Ralph and Jack and the need for power in both boys’ segregates the group and†¦show more content†¦When someone’s greed is not controlled it can lead that person down a very destructive path which is exactly what happened in Salem, with more understanding from the town this death path or greed could have been stopped by the Salem town’s people. The Witch trials would not have happened if it was not for the corruption of power Abigail had power over the other girls who were dancing in the woods and she maintained this power by threatening them â€Å"And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.† Abigail understands completely the ramifications of being found guilty of witchcraft and admitted to dancing in the forest but threatens the girls not to tell anyone about her drinking a potion in order to kill Elizabeth proctor. Reverend hale corrupts his power unknowingly, as he believes that Abigail and the girls are telling the truth, his image as a well educated Godly man makes him the perfect model for the towns people to mold their opinion of the witch trials from. â€Å"Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I bought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died;Show MoreRelatedRastafarian79520 Words   |  319 Pagesutilized to produce bananas and coffee. As a result, the peasantry that had emerged after emancipation became increasingly landless and â€Å"agroproletariat,†1 having to sell their labor for the meager wages offered by big estates (mostly sugar and banana farms). Furthermore, the expulsion of squatters from government lands in the rural areas led to an urban explosion as many moved to the city in search of work. As usual, urbanization was accompanied by massive levels of unemployment and sprawling slumsRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pagesapply the relevant information to the question or case at hand. You might think it difficult to argue against this (what manager would say decisions shouldn’t be based on evidence?), but the vast majority of management decisions are still made â€Å"on the fly,† with little or systematic study of available evidence.13 Systematic study and EBM add to intuition, or those â€Å"gut feelings† about what makes others (and ourselves) â€Å"tick.† Of course, the things you have come to believe in an unsystematic way are notRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pagesusually was judged and measured by the depth and capability and hard-asset credentials of the company’s management. That, of course, remains critically im portant. However, American companies whose performance most readily slipped in the economic crucible at the beginning of the twenty-first century (and whose recovery was among the slowest) seemed to rate highest in hard-asset terms compared with the many companies with a higher mix of soft-asset management strength, whose results were far better