Examples Of Hysteria In The Crucible

In “The Crucible” (1953) Arthur Miller asserts that mass hysteria leads to high tensions and heated relationships between people that once were great friends. these tensions begin in the town of salem Massachusetts in 1692 where witch hysteria was beginning to run rampant. A rampancy that caused the unjust deaths of nineteen of the town's residents. Nineteen people who had nothing to do with the theorised witchcraft that was spawned by people’s fear of the unknown. A fear that manifested due to untrustworthy people. But our story of salem is one of liars. Deception and political unrest, many of of the younger women in salem go out one night and dance in the woods around a fire(which was seen as a terrible dead in their culture). But their

Witchcraft that was all fake from the start, but then it escalates to another level they then call in officials of the high court to come in and hold a court session to bring charges upon the convicted. Before it is all said and done nineteen people are tried, convicted, and hung for participating in the act of witchcraft. But our story could have gone a completely different way had the acts of one character been different. Had Reverend Parris swallowed his pride and told everyone what was actually happening.Had he said something none of this would have happened. Also is anything that Parris does acceptable? He brazenly uses his very own children as political cannon fodder to try and gain land from his neighbors that wouldn’t sell it to him. The evil and shallow grudges carried by Reverend parris have the longest lasting effect on the people of salem in the

He puts his reputation before anyone else. For instance when the court hearing is taking place and John Proctor states that Abigail is lying about the witchcraft; parris intervenes and says. “ This man has been trying to blacken my name every since I arrived here” (Act 3)even though the conversation had nothing to do with him or his name. Then he also uses his children as pawns in his game of personal gain; throughout the whole story he is using his children to systematically eliminate his political enemies and then gobble up the land they had. That he would have otherwise been unable to obtain because no one was willing to do business with