General Topic: Religion in a society.
             Thesis: How does religion help to persecute the innocent?
             Religion is a hard word to define, for the simple fact that it has two meanings, well, according to me anyway. It can either be seen as a theory or idea of a superior being(s), a being/ beings that is/ are considered the creator(s)/ destroyer(s) of the universe or just as a faith joined by people to expel other religions that are not considered a branch religion from their own. I believe that both definitions pertain to The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller and "Nineteen-Thirty Seven," a short story by Edwidge Danticat for reasons that will be explained later in this paper. Through these explanations I plan to come to the conclusion that religion is a very powerful weapon used to persecute innocent people. This paper will focus partly on the ties the two societies in both pieces of literature have with religion. Unfortunately for the victims of religion, society failed to see the flaws or loop holes in the "good words" in which they all base their lives on, so this paper is written for Manman ("Nineteen- Thirty Seven), John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, Goody Osburn, and all those who perished for not being who they were thought to be.
             The Crucible is a play based on the famous Salem witch-hunt of 1692, in which several girls believed they saw the spirits of those who were witches and then accused them of witchcraft. The court saw these girls as instruments to help filter out the evil in Salem rather then seeing that it were all sport or for lack of better words, just for the hell of it, no pun intended. In Act I, we come to learn that Abigail, niece to Parris, the minister of Salem, and his slave Tituba confess to signing the book of the Devil. They ere caught in the woods, along with other girls from the town, dancing around a kettle, something considered not to be holy in those times. In order to avoid...