Good afternoon everyone. I was bored and figured I should start writing a blog since it has been a good amount of time since my last blog. Anyway, I'm currently a Junior in high school and we have just finished reading the play The Crucible in my American Literature class and found a quote that struck me as sounding very familiar. Shortly after reading the passage, I realized where I had heard it and it sent some chills down my spine.

"You are either with this court or against it!" from the play The Crucible

"If you are not with me, then you are my enemy!" from the movie Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith

For my blog today, I would like to talk breifly about the similarities between the quotes and what they are relating to.

Ok first off a brief summary of the play The Crucible:

The play starts off during the Salem witch trials. Several girls were caught in the woods dancing and conjuring up the devil to answer their prayers (mostly about which men they would like to have). Abigail Williams, who is portrayed as the "villain" tells the other girls that they must pretend they were being called upon by other villagers who were in league with the devil. In doing so, they would not get in trouble for their evil acts. This would come at a price, however, as those who were accused of witchery and did not confess would be hanged. Many did not confess and those that did did so out of fear of being hanged by denying that they are indeed witches. Abigail, who is a young teenager, eventually accuses Goody (another word for "Mrs.") Proctor, the wife of a man who had committed lechery (sleeping with another woman while married) with. John Proctor decides to pay the court a visit after his wife is taken to prison and demands that she and the others be let free claiming that the girls who had been accusing villagers as witches were frauds. He has some degree of proof, but not enough and finally is forced to confess to have committed lechery with Abigail Williams (this would not only hurt Proctors' image, but also Abigail's' credibility and she would be treated as a harlot and not an innocent little girl who was a victim to witchcraft).

I'm not going to continue with the rest of the play because frankly this summary is already longer than originally intended to be, but during the meeting in court that I have just described, the one of the judges, who believes that Proctor has come to "undermine the court" and "overthrow the court", states that line:

"You are either with this court or against it!"

I just found this to be a chilling and amusing reminder of Star Wars. Similarly, many had to die so the "court" and "empire" would not be attacked.

I hope I have brought some sort of wisdom to you today and I apologize the blog was supposed to be much better, but I am short on time and cannot find a way to fully express my point. Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for commenting which is always accepted and welcomed (but of course no bashing please).

MTFBWY

~SL0017

P.S. I wonder if George Lucas got that quote idea from this play. Probably not, but hey, you never know...