The-Essay-Which-Doesn't-Really-Exist-Essay
Saturday, 1 November 2008
The-Essay-Which-Doesn't-Really-Exist-Essay-Because-Mrs-Wallace-Was-Maybe-Trying-To-Be-Sarcastic-Essay
By Kathryn
Dramatic Texts may only sometimes comment on a context entirely different to the one presented in the narrative (but this doesn't happen often enough to be worth your time.) This statement is particualry (I know I spelt it wrong) true when analysis Arthur Miller's "The Crucible", which offers an insight into, maybe, the prevailing fear of communism through McCarthyism in the 1950's America, but I wasn't there so I wouldn't know. Although, the story is of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecutions and the terrifying power of false accusations (yes, that does sound familiar, I did just copy it off the back of the book). This play is really commenting on some stuff that happened in America (enough said) where some dude finally took the courage to stand up to those darn communists and jailed some in the process, some died too maybe, whether that was as a result of a disease called communism-itis or being mobbed in a dark alleyway by government officials or even starved to death because their house was egged by some snotty teenagers then they couldn't get out of their house to get food then died of starvation. So yeah! Everything got, like, heaps worse, like, than it already is in that stuffed country of The United States of America (all with capitals because they think they are soooooooooo great!!!) WHICH draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witchhunts of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. This essay will discuss something to do with allegorical meanings in
at least one drama text I have studied. However, that's as much as you'll get out of me at the moment because I actually have NO IDEA what I'm supposed to be writing about!!! However, it has some reference to a book by Dr. Seuss called the Sneegles, or something like that, with stars upon thy bellies which is really about either racism or something to do with some economic situation thing, which mothers don't tell their children, but maybe they should so maybe our world wouldn't be so stuffed up. And it also has some reference to a book about mice multiplying then the mouse government starting war then running them over with a car.
ANYWAY... I've run out of time!
2:43 pm
