Does your environment influence your behavior?

The Excorcism of Emily Rose is evil because it is showing people possesed by the Devil. I honestly don't think that it's christian like to try and take the devil out of somebody.I don't think that it's real and I don't like the fact that people actually believe that the devil could be in someone's body physically controlling them. In Salem people believe that the devil are making people do things and that people who are being controlled by the devil are controlling other people and making them do things that are not considered holy.

Another thing is that when people believe that certaint things are happenning they begin to do things they normally wouldn't do. People in Salem are pretending to be possesed because if they don't pretend that they were possed then pretend that they were all of a sudden saved and turned christian again then they would be hang. This shows that their environment got them in trouble for being accused and they had to get themselves out of trouble by pretending that they were possesed. I don't believe in any of that because it's wrong and there is no real proof that people can be posssed by the devil and become evil.

Puritanism of The Crucible compared to modern Day School

In the play people try really hard to be perfect that they become stressed and have a break down.Today people tend to try so hard to have straight a's that they start to stress themselves and they become tired and they might drop out of school or just give up after all the hard work they did.

Another thing is that in the play the people try to point the finger at other people, this is also true today because when people become stressed and their grades start to slip they blame it on home or family problems even if they know it wasn't that bad they just don't want to admit that they didn't work hard in the end to achieve their goal. When people act bad in The Crucible the priest called them witches or say that they have been possesed by the devil so they get punished.Today when kids grades slip they have to face their parents and they also get punished.Either way trying to b perfect can have many different outcomes and even though they aren't as harsh any more the outcome of getting in trouble still exists.