Analysis Of Arthur Miller's Get It Right: Privatize Executions

In Arthur Miller’s compelling essay, Get it Right: Privatize Executions, he conveys his perspective on public executions and mocks society. As a matter of fact, public executions are not an out-moded subject that has caused disputable opinions. Executions that can be viewed by the public was once a legal practice and a part of history in the United States. Surprisingly, in some coun-tries around the world public executions is viewed as the norm in their culture. It was not unusual for some society’s to be entertained such gruesome executions. In fact, lynching was a popular form in America used to dehumanize the offender and to use him or her as a lesson for the com-munity to beware of the consequences. As a result, displaying the executed …show more content…
Although criminals had made unforgivable mistakes they should not be paraded or dehumanized for the sake of society’s entertainment. So-ciety should never dehumanize other people for the sole purpose of amusement. The offender’s final moments of suffering should not be for the enjoyment of society. Also, culture will be ulti-mately desensitized and be left without any empathy or compassion if public executions will be the norm of the culture. The public will have no sense of morals and will no longer view criminals as humans, but as savages ready to be terminated from society. In addition, perverseness plays a big part of allowing such unethical actions to be accepted. Although every individual has their inner perverseness and cruel desires it should not be expressed in a form of brutal entertainment. If such brutal actions are allowed society will be nothing more than the cruel past people have endured. According to Miller, society has become a subject of satire and ridicule. To emphasize, by mocking society of their utter habit to repeat actions that were inhumane to mankind, it proves that public executions will be no different. The outrageous forms of brutality inflicted on people should not be repeated but it has not been completely discontinued. Public executions has been changed into a practice that people have foolishly accepted. It is evident in Miller’s essay that he will never understand why society adapts to these kinds of horrendous laws all the name of jus-tice. To this end, public executions will be a new form of contemporary brutality and entertain-ment for the society to