“Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria .” American actress Alexandra Daddario said this while her life seemed unorthodox. Mass Hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear. In Arthur Miller's drama, The Crucible, Mass Hysteria is tremendously recognized. The play takes place in the late 1600’s in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts where over 100 people are accused of performing witchcraft. While looking at The Salem Witch trials as a whole it is prominent that media isn't needed to have mass hysteria. …show more content…
Neighbors were accusing neighbors, friends were accusing people they have know for years. The accusations of others was a scapegoat for anything that was out of the ordinary. The village people would accuse others to get ahold of land that might be owned by someone else. The blaming of people for abnormal events was very common at this time considering their tight puritan beliefs.
Secondly, Mass Hysteria in salem was also spread by the will to fit in. As soon as people started accusing, others went along with it to fit into society. It was normal to fit into the hysteria if that's what everyone else is doing. People now days and back then have an undying urge to fit into society, they will do whatever that it