Abuse Of Power In The Crucible Quotes

Never Underestimate the Divine Strength of a Mother who appears Broken..... This phrase, in the most reciprocal form, is powerful. A broken woman is perceived as weak, battered, useless, and incapable, among many other low states of Human life, effortlessly causing her to think it might be best to lie down and die. The thought represents a desperation to escape a pain more powerful than she. There is, but one superseding power, greater than the pain itself. You take this woman, who loves her kids to the highest degree of unselfishness and give her a hint they’re suffering. A Divine Strength that can’t be seen, perhaps not even felt will ignite a fire within her from miles away. No one in its path will see it coming, not even her. This strength indicates that she will go beyond any limits to protect her offspring even if it means rising to her death. There’s no mountain too high, no fire too crucible, nor a fear she won’t face, to ensure they are safe, both mentally and physically. The best part is, no matter how broken down she appears, or how robbed she may be, no one can take from her, what they don’t know she possesses. Following the exhaustion of all other choices, this strength is activated, only when it’s most necessary. It may never be discovered in a lifetime by many, but you can bet it’s there when you need it most. It’s in every one of us, festering, waiting for what may be the last moments of life or death.

Conroy himself suffered cruelties and injustices throughout his life, from the time he was a child beaten by a violent and abusive father. The man who emerged from the crucible of chronic trauma was a warrior of words, determined to bear witness to the wrongs inflicted on the innocent and vulnerable by the corrupt and powerful.

Sharing a code, along with the sheer force of shared experience, is what binds warriors together in the crucible of combat. That is why authentic warriors’ codes come from within the warrior culture itself; they are not imposed upon it by some external source (such as a fearful civilian population). Of course, there are many rules that govern the lives of modern warriors that were put in place by the societies that they serve. Some of these exist to protect against abuses of military power. Others are to make sure a given nation’s warriors do not violate international standards of conduct. In the United States, specific Rules of Engagement (ROE) and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) spell out much of what is expected of our warriors. But a warrior’s code is much more than just rules of this type.