Herd Mentality In The Crucible

The Crucible Tragedy
Four years ago, a new virus was spreading around the world. Which caused everyone to fear going outdoors in society and were very protective of themselves. Some people were running trying to get as much supplies as they could in the grocery store and more and more people started to follow them. Eventually, all supplies were gone and some people did not have many supplies. This is an example of Herd Mentality. Herd Mentality is when everyone is thinking with a group/crowd; everyone just follows the crowd. In this book The Crucible it shows Herd Mentality, Here are 3 main causes for the tragedy that happened to John Proctor, False Accusations , Abigail's affair with John Proctor , and society's need for a scapegoat.
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“ Abigail: And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it “ (p20), “ Proctor: She only pretended to faint, Your Excellency. They’re all marvelous pretenders” ( p106). Another example of false accusations that caused his help ( Mary Warren ) to free Mrs. Proctor turned against him because Abigail and the girls were saying that Mary bewitched them and all the girls were acting possessed, when Mary was about to confess the truth and say they were pretending. So they acted like that so they would not believe her. ThereFore she begged Abigail to forgive her and told the court that Proctor forced her to come to court and say false things and to join the devil. “ Mary Warren, pointing at Proctor: You’re the Devil’s man!”Mary Warren, hysterically, indicating Proctor: He come at me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to “Mary Warren, her sobs beginning: He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I

So Elizabeth walked in and she told the court she did not know about the affair with John and Abigail and said it was not real. But, she knew she was lying to protect her husband’s name and reputation.” Proctor, breathless and in agony:It is a whore! Danforth, dumfounded (p110),” Proctor, his voice about to break, and his shame great: In the proper place - where my beasts are bedded. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me in my house, sir. He has to clamp his jaw to keep from weeping. A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you - see her what she is. My wife, my dear good wife, took this girl soon after, sir, and put her out on the highroad. And being what she is, a lump of vanity, sir - He is being overcome.Excellency, forgive me (p110)”Danforth,sharply to Parris: Bring her out! And tell her not one word of what’s been spoken here. And let you knock before you enter.Parris goes out.Now we shall touch the bottom of this swamp.To Proctor:Your wife, you say, is an honest woman(p111)”Danforth, reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John