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It is often surprising to realize the uncanny similarities in the creative writings of seemingly opposite cultures. In “The Crucible,, by Arthur Miller, the characters are indulged in their Puritan lifestyle, behaviors and thinking patterns. Yet their struggles are curiously similar to concerns and difficulties evidenced in our own popular culture. Songwriter Billy Joel explores fear, hatred and the ease with which some people go along with the crowd in his song, ”An Innocent Man”. In the early lines of the piece, Billy Joel writes: “If there’s a chance of it opening up, they hear a voice in the hall outside, and hope that it just passes by.” This is sort of a metaphor for Parris in,” The Crucible” and how he blinks when something goes wrong, hoping it will just go away. Further along in an Innocent Man”, Joel sings, “Some people find that it’s easier to hate, than to wait anymore.” The apparent tendency to hate and fear is a common theme in the Salem Puritan society of “The Crucible”. Lastly, Billy Joel writes, “Some people hope for a miracle cure, some people just accept the world as the way it is, but I’m not willing to la
“Some people hope for a miracle cure, some people just accept the world as the way it is, but I’m not willing to lay down and die.” “Some people hope for a miracle cure,” to me that represents the American people voting for the Republicans to make our terrorism problem disappear by taking aggressive actions threatening to bomb Iraq. “When the some people just accept the world as the way it is,” to me this represents the Democratic Party who would try to negotiate with the terrorists rather than starting a war, and try to come to peace with each other so that we understand our differences. “But I’m not willing lay down and die,” means that America as a whole voted for the Republicans to come in and stop the innocent killing of American lives and to threaten to bomb Iraq as to put an end to the problem right then and there.
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