Power In The Crucible

Powerful world leaders who are given nearly anything they want as they want it, tend to be a bad idea. Modern day examples of this are shown in countries like North Korea with dictator Kim Jong Un, whom we all think is crazy. The fact that he lives like a god while his people suffer we know is absolutely gut wrenching. But throughout history this type of government has been common, sometimes the people in power change it so it’s not so easily recognizable, but most of the time they are outright with their blatant abuse of power. In both the Salem witch trials, in which innocent people were hanged for committing a crime that there was no evidence of and no possible way for them to commit, and in the Congo massacre, in which a Belgian prince took over the Congo without ever colonizing it and then worked the citizens to death in order to make himself richer, the rulers showed their wielding of absolute power by killing people that either were accused by a spiritually upstanding person, or that didn’t work hard enough to make a white man that they’ve never met in a country they’ve never heard of rich. In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and the paper on the Congo massacre, “The Butcher of [the] Congo” by Baffour Ankomah, it is shown that if one person or a small group of people are given nearly

In the Congo, 15 million people were killed as a result of a Belgian prince who wanted more land and money. In both of these instances, the innocent portion of the population was killed by the more powerful, more elite, smaller population because the smaller population was desperate to demonstrate the power they had, be it in the form of hanging people for witchcraft or just killing innocent Africans for not harvesting enough rubber to satisfy the unreasonable demands placed upon them, or sometimes just a family member. [talk about only the crucible