Belonging

Belonging

Belonging, so natural and secure, it provides the average human to experience a sense of security and refuge. Though limiting belonging only to humans would simply be ignorant and conceited, for a sense of security and affiliation can be applied ultimately to any object, whether it is animate or inanimate. We explore and seek in order to find a community, a group of friends, or a certain affiliation in which we have specific relationships that link one another. The Oxford University defines belonging as an association or connection with people, depending on the context; one can belong or associate to certain cultural, physical or simply social aspects within a community. ‘The Crucible’, a play written in the early 1950’s by Arthur Miller, depicts a sense of belonging, in certain cases, desperation of belonging. The play was based on actual events which occurred at colonial Massachusetts, where false accusations and claims of witchery ran rampant across the state during 1962 which led to at least 150 prosecutions which were accused of witchcraft. ‘The Crucible’ is a play that envelopes the intersection of private sins with paranoia, hysteria, and religious intolerance. Ethical laws and state laws were considered as one; crime and the clarity of an individual’s soul and conscience was public business. An individual's personal and public existence must conform to the moral and ethical laws, for if it they were not to conform, the threat of the public good would certainly come into consideration. Therefore the association with the general society is a vital and a critical aspect.

‘The Hairy Ape’ a play written by Eugene O’Neill displays his individual social and public anxiety for the demoralized industrial working class citizens. Although indicating in ‘The Hairy Ape’ the apparent certainty that the capitalist organization victimized the working citizen. It is obvious of the concerns that the composer, O’Neill is passionate about his...