Fear can lead to many things. It may lead to you making harsh decision and be very closed minded. But overall, our fear can blind society from the truth and keep them from getting justice. We see most of this in many cases. We mostly saw this occur in the book The crucible by Arthur Miller, the Central Park five and as well with McCarthyism. Throughout these stories, we sure can see that we learned that fear can lead to mass hysteria. It also may lead people to believe the wrong point of view and think incorrectly. In the book The crucible by Arthur Miller, there was small town called Salem. It was faced with mass hysteria. This was caused by a group of girls acting crazy. They were acting as they were possessed by witches when they weren’t. This caused the small town so have fear and start blaming everyone else that they are witches. This then was causing mass hysteria because no one was trusting anyone else around the town. Everyone was out to get revenge. For example, John proctor stood by the truth stating “ A fire is burning! I hear the boot of lucifer, I see his face, it is my face and yours danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of …show more content…
during this time many people made false sayings without proper evidence. They said that “In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.” ― Julia Child, My Life in France. Us as a society, we have been blinded. We have been blinded by the fear of many things. In this case we have feared of the communist and what type of power they have hold. This has led to mass hysteria and many people lost their jobs and