The Crucible
How to spot a liar
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Pamela Meyer speaks about how to spot and catch a liar. She gives insight on how to catch a person in a lie, when we get lied to 10-200 times a day. A DAY! She states that lie spotters get to the truth by using deception. They talk to difficult people, and have difficult conversations at difficult times. They start up this path by using a key core proposition, "lying is a cooperative act." She states that a lie has no power, until a person gives it power when they believe the lie. This is shown thoroughly in The Crucible. She explains that lie is mainly to fill voids and gaps in a person. Something's that people wish about themselves, how people wish they could be, how situations in their lives could be, or simply to cover up the bad about themselves. As this relates to The Crucible, lies caused most of the hysteria throughout Salem. The townspeople gave the lies power by believing them and spreading them throughout the town. One of the biggest liars in the play is Abigail Williams. Most of the drama, lies and hysteria developed from her. She used lies to cover up dirt on her name, to put dirt and shame on someone else's. This is what most people did throughout the play, or to get themselves out of accusations against them. The lies created in the story caused more hangings in the Salem Witch Trials then were actually necessary. Innocent people had to lie and confess to dealing with the devil and witchcraft to save their own lives from hangings or beatings. If the people in Salem had the technology of this age and generation, they would have had access to videos like this to distinguish between the truth and a lie. Too many people's lives were taken from the cruelty of other's.
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