The Crucible: Examining the Complexities of Truth and Justice

In The Crucible, abuse of power is shown in example everywhere with the fact that there is no separation between Religion and Law. Even though this may seem substantial. However, this becomes a problem, when you sacrifice basic human rights because of how you feel or what you believe in. This can lead to an Abuse of Power. Danforth was a judge and declared that “this is a court of law. The Law based upon the Bible. ”(Miller 56). He uses false accusations and assumptions during the cases. Danforth knows that with his power he can suspect people without evidence. Just like in Stalin’s Gulag era people could be brought in and convicted and sent to basically “prison” just for being smarter than him and with no evidence.

The abuse of power is a common terror to many different countries. It can be very tough to deal with and most of the time when they are rich countries it can be 10 times worse. Numerous times an abusive leader has taken over where it has led to mass genocide or similar outcomes. However, it is still present today and an ignored issue. These type of situations can happen with rich countries usually because of ignorance or fear in the country. Evil political leaders have affected countless people in history. Leaders like Joseph Stalin trapping people in his Gulag, keeping them in horrible conditions. These miserable workers were put to work day in and day out in horrible conditions to help ruthlessly grow the economy. Or another time when Stalin caused the death of 7 million people because of the famines because he confiscated farms from farmers. Stalin also being paranoid about losing his power abused it by believing that if he locked up wealthy farmers, those who were smarter than him, and those with money he would remain his wealth and power.

The russian communist revolution was one born and defined by a total commitment to brutality. During the span of years from 1914 to 1950, at least fifty million Russians were murdered, starved and otherwise driven to their graces by a regime which destroyed one of the world’s great nations of people and in its place established a mafia state whose pillars were extreme violence, summary executions and the Gulag prison system. The process began with dieting all of the farmers to work on collective farms as slave labor. Those who resisted were either starved to death by taking from them all of their produce by force or simply shooting them in violent purges. If communities resisted the confiscation of their grain and livestock they would be labeled as enemies of the proletariat AKA the working class. The Army would often show up and force the townspeople into marching to the nearest train station to be loaded onto bulk cars otherwise used for coal or other materials. Those who resisted or refused were shot. Keep in mind these actions would typically take place in the winter so that the cold could be used as a weapon.

They would then take the train into the deep wilderness and at some random point the soldiers would stop and force everyone off. Some would already be dead by exposure to cold and wind and snow, likely the very young and very old. The rail cars were not heated. Having been forced off the trains in the middle of nowhere the people would simply be left there to freeze to death or starve. The soldiers were smart to do this in a barren spot with no trees, no nearby communities, no shelter. Left there in the snow to fend for themselves. I can only imagine the horror that occurred when animals came into play. Or better yet the animal tendencies of desperate people coming over. This is a horrible image to think about. All because of the Abuse of Power of a paranoid, scared man who ruled his country in fear and lies. In the Crucible