The chaos in Part 2 of ‘Atonement’ is matched by the chaos in ‘The Crucible’

McEwans atonement throws its floor into an abject state of disarray in die two, with Robbie facing the horrible images of war which repeatedly impart in his state of consciousness as menacing flashbacks history has once again repeated itself in the last of French society as he makes his demeanor towards Dunkirk, part the citizens of capital of Oregon in The Crucible follow through the terrible murders and descent into pandemonium at the whim of Abigail and the breakd avouch of golf club indoors society.Little is left to imagination in the opening of split up Two deep down Atonement, as McEwan assumes the narrative role of Robbie in the midst of confusion and the reader is immediately thrust into a maculation where there were horrors plentiful, with worse to come as he examines the destruction of a household as he notes The scraps of cloth may have been a childs A boys.The complete lack of respect for gentle life is in full realised when Robbie observes that it wa s a leg in a treewedged in the counterbalance forking of the trunksevered cleanly small enough to be a childs it is disturbing that the Robbie notes that the leg seemed to be on display, for their benefit or enlightenment this is a leg.The blank space of body parts strewn across the landscape pile only be seen as a normal situation, and Robbie describes his company as refusing to be skeletal inin the past few days they had seen enough. milling machine mirrors this in The Crucible, especially in regards to the lack of respect for human life. The Putnams, depict as a man with many grievances. Disturbingly it is this genuinely part of him that dissolving agents in the ensuing bedlam of which he acts as a land-grabber, making full use of the capital of Oregon witch trials to his profit.The audience becomes fully aw ar of this motivation when the introduction of his character notes that many accusations against people be in the handwriting of doubting Thomas Putnam, and the late r accusations of watch over be first hinted by Putnam suggesting that The tract is in (his) bounds notably after watch overs condemnation the only person that can afford to procure such expensive property in spite of appearance Salem is, in fact, Thomas Putnam. In an another(prenominal) accusation, Giles Corey argues that If Jacobs hangsthere is none but Putnam with the coin to deprave so great a piece.We see the descent into chaos as Putnam is clearly involuntary to trade human life for his own physical gain, with even out the Reverend Paris in implied collusion, when he adamantly exclaims that Salem has not treated him in accordance to his rights as a minister, and he as well as decides to join the accusation bandwagon which only leads to condemnation of get on innocence. Both texts refer to the destruction of humanity it is disturbingly normalised in Robbies war with the citizens only seeing mutilated bodies, in a delegacy tortured by war2 while the envy of the charact ers in spite of appearance The Crucible is directly responsible for the deaths that ensue.Miller also portrays a wizard of hysterical neurosis within the town Abigail acts as the initiator of the hysteria bandwagon, choosing to turn on Tituba of witchcraft, with dark intentions of having her own charges dropped I never called him Tituba, Tituba. The trials and chaos that ensure wherefore comes as a direct consequence of a single accusation, as Abigail realises that she, and many others, stand to gain much more from false accusations and Proctor furiously states that little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common payback writes the law.A disturbing reflection of this is depicted in Robbie witnessing the pic where the soldiers began to turn against their own side he was in the RAF and the tommies held him accountableeveryone had suffered, and like a shot someone was going to pay. The lack of chapter demarcations within Part Two gives first indication of the descent into chaos as order is upset down, and previous allies are instead pitted against each other as a hand whipped out and slapped the mans governance and disturbingly he notes that even he could understand the exhilaration among the tormentors and the insidious way it could claim him.It is clear that the war has a chaotic effect on men, as McEwan creates the commentary that war can destroy even the outgo of men2, including Robbie. It is only through the intervention of Mace that this chaos is slimly diverted away from the RAF officer clearly morality is still in existence but is already veering towards questionable. Miller similarly alludes to his in the accusations against Tituba, when even the lowly servant who simply works on behalf of the family is use as a scapegoat.The following accusations are similarly targeted at straightforward and Osburn, solely for being of lowly sort within Salems society and the easiest targets. Eventually the accusations take a much m ore psychoneurotic turn when Putnam stands as perhaps the most corrupt schemer within Salem he is the only to accuse Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft, in which even the authorities including Parris and Hale find questionable.Society within twain Salem and Atonements scope reveals the true nature of chaos and hysteria as direct result of human nature and envy. It is thus described by some commentators that the witch trials offereda release of pent-up frustrations and perception1 In both cases it is notably the children that advocate and cause the chaos Robbie explicitly refers to Briony as the sole creator of his destruction.In his confabulation with Cecilia, we see the full capacity for destruction on behalf of children within the text Yes, she was just a child. But not every child sends a man to prison with a lie. In Millers case, this is on the dot what follows Abigails initial accusations she opens further accusations, and in a fit of avenging decides to openly accuse Proctor o f witchcraft, and under Abigails leadership the children clamor together and even implicate Mary Warren, one of their own, as colluding with a witch.Hence both texts present chaos in the form of an turned society, where the higher authorities hold little to no power. The opening of Part Two in Atonement already hints towards this, as Robbie is noted for pickings the dead captains revolver, with later instances of insubordination as they refuse to listen to a commander who insists on a self-annihilation operation to push the Germans back.In Salem, it is the children that make the bulk of the evidence within the judiciary system, and even the weighty judges Danforth and Hathorne are just about unvoluntary to question the evidence of the children, with Danforth only willing to worriedly question Abigails evidence, not to seek the truth, but rather to protect his own record as a judge we see Abigail directly challenge Danforth himself who can only shrink back in fear.The failure o f order within society is clear in both texts Robbie assumes command of Mace and reproof despite the two being a higher rank than he is himself, and repeatedly we see the two referring to him as Guvnor. Crucially, in both texts the gush of chaos is exacerbated by the very people who we assume to be willing and able to curb it. Cecilia angrily accuses Leon of being a grinning, spineless imbecile and that she now understands the snobbery that lay behind their (her familys) stupidity.Conversely, in Salem it is Danforth who crucially holds the ability to change the course of chaos, yet he too insists on furthering the accusations to save his own reputation, insisting that there will be no postponement, as he cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime he is loath to relinquish correspond to anyonehe cannot cope with the potential chaos caused by free concept1Hence the two texts illustrate the full pressure of chaos, Atonement in the sense of physical and psychological destruction, while The Crucible draws cerebrate to destruction and chaos as a result of human nature. arguably it is possible to see the physical deaths and horrific images of corpses as far greater chaos than in Millers play Robbies narration is evocative in normalising the sight of corpses and breakdown of order.However, The Crucible also somewhat matches the chaos and cruelty of war, as we see the executions of numerous innocents as the result of human treachery and envy. The chaos that ensues in Millers descriptions are therefore far more disturbing in the driving force behind the destruction, where chaos is the result of intentions in Atonement Robbie is only brush away into chaos and imprisonment by the act of a silly, hysterical girl who does not necessarily realise the full weight of her actions, while within Salem it is the deliberate acts of individuals that contribute.Thus the chaos seen within both texts is generally matched, although with different motive s it is a different sort of chaos that is portrayed within the two, where one is avoidable and the other perhaps unavoidable in the sense of war and its inherent destructive capacity.