A person’s immediate response when wronged is to make the scales even and in someway make that person feel the pain they felt. Although you can see this theme manifest throughout most plays, movies, and books, you can particularly see throughout The Crucible by Andrew Miller and Goodnight and Goodluck written by George Clooney. The The Crucible, a play, and Goodnight and Goodluck, a movie both dramatize times in history when, in the case of the play, a real witch hunt occurs, and in the Movie a metaphorical witch hunt takes place. In both the play and the movie, you see people's actions are often motivated by a desire for revenge. In The Crucible, there is a woman named Ann Putnam. She has had seven babies and only one of them has lived. This would obviously make any mother …show more content…
She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a—(I.202-205).” Abigail has a lot of pent up anger towards Elizabeth. She now not only wants her out of the way so her and John can be together but also for speaking badly about her intown. In Goodnight and Goodluck, A man by the name of Joseph McCarthy goes on a temerarious campaign to root out the communist in the United States. He uses his so-called “investigations,” where evidence is not even presented at the person's trial, to slowly work his way to his real targets. He ends up using the fear he creates though these trials to get revenge on the people who speak ill about himself or his trials. Ed Durrow, a man with a talk show on CBS, does a report on how McCarthy is convicting people of communism without any real cause. McCarthy then accuses him of being communist. Mccarthy had one goal and it was to root out any and all communist. When someone got in his way he felt they were also communist, but actually he was just trying to get them out of the way so he could continue his trials and falsely accuse people of being