Blog Five: Crucible

The definition of crucible relates to the play it’s self. The first definition is "a container made of a substance that can resist great heat, for melting, fusing, or calcining ores, metals." Even though this definition is in the litteral sense, I interpret another way to further understand the play's titles. The container is equivalent to the society in The Crucible. Both the container and the society are resistant to heat, or in the society, prejudice, fights, or other cruel acts. Like the container, the society can with stand all that heat without being destroyed. There is never a perfect invention, everything has flaws. The container can over flow while melting very hot substances on it and it can leak all over and cause much destruction. This is similar to the society. The society with stands all the prejudice and as in The Crucible, they with stand the theocracy and the lack of freedom and fun. Nobody does anything to stop it and one day the society becomes mad and "overflows" with melting lava or very mad people and they start to murder and convict innocent people. 

I have encountered a crucible like this one in my life. When I was younger, about seven years old, I used to keep things bottled up inside of me. I would create "a container made of a substance that can resist great heat." I was made up of something that let out no emotion. I thought my body was so powerful that nothing was going to melt me away, until one day when I did not "melt" but I did overflow. My anger leaked out of me and that hot substance poured out into a screaming fit. Since I overflew and not melted everything out, I still have some of that hot metal inside of me. Since I am full and I never empty out completely, I over flow quicker now and I break out into screams more often than ever. This is  similar to what is happening today. An example of this would be with gay people. The society never lets all their feelings out at once. They pour out every once in a while and as time goes on, more and more prejudice is shown and out breaks of predjudices occur, such as the humiliation of the gay college student that caused him to committed suicide. The society is getting worse and it won't be fixed until we figure out to melt that heat resistant container, which seems impossible.