According to dictionary.com, human nature means the psychological and social qualities that characterize human kind, especially in the contrast of other things. Human nature is like a unconditional reaction, meaning you were trained to do what you do. For example, getting up when the bell rings at the end of class is an unconditional reaction. We learned about this in my psychology class, and since it related to this topic, I decided to include it in this blog. Human nature is an unconditional reaction because you do not choose to do what you do, you just learn it and it happens. It is human nature to give blame to something. When someone bad happens, the first thing someone does is put the blame on someone. For example, when the twin towers got attacked, people looked for blame. First, they thought it was an accident and that the pilot accidentally took the plane off course. Later, they learned that it was a terrorist attack. They put the blame on the wrong person, which is very popular with this human nature trait. Blame is such a horrible thing in human nature. No one can just not blame someone for something. In result, the blame is put in the wrong place a large percent of the time. When someone is late for work, it is always the traffic or the weather's fault. The driver never blames themselves for not leaving early enough.
For examples in this book, the best one would be when Betty falls ill. Even though this event happens throughout the whole book, it still is the best example. When she falls sick, people immediately look for something to blame. When something goes terribly wrong, there has to be someone to blame. In this time period, witch craft was a good thing to blame. Blaming witch craft instead of considering the possibility that she was just ill was placing the blame in the wrong direction.
Another display of human nature would be when the needle was found in the doll. The people who found it automatically assumed the worst. When we are unsure about things, we tend to think it is bad and wrong. That is exactly what they did with the doll. During this time period, they took the blame very far. For example, they killed people who tapered with the devil, even if they really did not. People were accused of things they did not do a lot during this time period.
This time period really took things too far. Witch craft was automatically assumed to be the cause of the problem when anything was sketchy at all. I can not believe this. It is truly different from our time period. When someone gets in trouble these days, they may try to put the blame on someone else, but never on something like witch craft. We have become more piratical. It is truly unthinkable how they dealt with things back then. It is also pretty interesting, though. I would be interested to see how I would survive during this time period. Being accused of tampering with witch craft seemed like a pretty easy thing to do.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Web.
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