Examples Of Judgement In The Crucible
Fear and Hysteria destroy Good Judgment because when a part of yourself feels fear or paranoia (Hysteria), your judgement goes away and you do anything you can to do away with that uncomfortable feeling. In the Crucible, the three girls Abigail, Mary, and Susanna are filled with fear and hysteria of getting into trouble and being spanked so they turn to the most drastic judgment they have and start accusing people of witchcraft to prevent their own punishment and put that uneasy feeling of uncomfortability to rest. They also had a slight prompt on their side that another town had gone through the witch trials and had a mass hysteria and fear of the same thing the girls had brought up. With fear and hysteria built in their hearts, the girls
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Psychologically, when the mind is caught in the madness of fear, it has two options, to either succumb to it and dwell with it or to find a way out of it by either lying or deceiving or another sort of way of taking the attention of the situation at hand disturbing their peace. Physically, the mind will send nerve messages to act out in violent behavior, put the person in a dangerous situation, caught up in lies, or even to the extent of killing. In The Crucible, these girls are put into these two situations. They decide to take the path where they take the focus off them by accusing others of witchery upon them and others and being able to “detect” the devil in people’s soul. They also act out into violence by saying people’s souls are attacking them. This isn’t a summary but just important events that have happened. To get to the point of interest, these girls acted in both ways thinking that it will rid of their fear and hysteria but instead creating more by having to worry about the lies that have been told and the innocent that have been killed in their cause of not being to man-up and take the punishment that they rightfully deserve. So, psychologically, these girls are being destroyed from inside out from the fear on their mind of getting caught in the act of lying in court and the deaths of the
Psychologically, when the mind is caught in the madness of fear, it has two options, to either succumb to it and dwell with it or to find a way out of it by either lying or deceiving or another sort of way of taking the attention of the situation at hand disturbing their peace. Physically, the mind will send nerve messages to act out in violent behavior, put the person in a dangerous situation, caught up in lies, or even to the extent of killing. In The Crucible, these girls are put into these two situations. They decide to take the path where they take the focus off them by accusing others of witchery upon them and others and being able to “detect” the devil in people’s soul. They also act out into violence by saying people’s souls are attacking them. This isn’t a summary but just important events that have happened. To get to the point of interest, these girls acted in both ways thinking that it will rid of their fear and hysteria but instead creating more by having to worry about the lies that have been told and the innocent that have been killed in their cause of not being to man-up and take the punishment that they rightfully deserve. So, psychologically, these girls are being destroyed from inside out from the fear on their mind of getting caught in the act of lying in court and the deaths of the