Hysteria The state of hysteria in a society can spread faster than a brush fire‚ and be more dangerous then a San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event‚ promotion of the event‚ attacks due to pretense‚ and total panic and chaos. Webster’s dictionary defines hysteria as a state of unmanageable fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear‚ and will eventually cause social unrest
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strong Christian beliefs. Anyone who acts out of the ordinary is accused of being a witch‚ and he/she will actually be forgiven if they blame their accusations on another individual‚ or confess themselves as guilty. Hysteria is the main idea of this play‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Miller shows how it can destroy an entire community‚ and developed a theme of how suspicion and panic can lead to extensive hysteria that often can destroy rationality and public/individual persona. Firstly
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Grudges V.S. The Salem Witch Trials Have you and your friends ever done something you were no permitted to do and then wanted to keep it a secret? So you all did whatever yo had to do to keep from letting that secret from getting exposed‚ even if you ended up lying and it spiral out of control? A great example of this is in The Crucible‚several people know the entire truth but chose to keep it a secret. The people of Salem‚ the puritans display grudges and rivalries that collide with their
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In Salem‚ Massachusetts the year 1692‚ Arthur Miller tells the tale of witch hunts and trials in his play The Crucible. With these trials and hunts came hysteria; a term defined as uncontrollable emotion and excitement among people. Throughout Salem Miller creates hysteria among contrasting characters‚ uneven justice‚ and even alludes to the hysteria we have in our societies today. In any play‚ characters along with their personalities are what complete a story. When characters have contrasting
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witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692 were a result of many different elements that were going on within the town. Jealousy was the cornerstone of the mass hysteria that soon became known as the Salem witch trials. In his play‚ The Crucible‚ Miller demonstrates how the fear of people in authority can destroy a community by bringing it to mass hysteria through the characters of Parris‚ Putnam‚ and Proctor. Reverend Parris‚ the minister in Salem‚ fears the people of the town to a point where he can hardly
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turned into hysteria. The witchcraft hysteria‚ of 1692 in Salem‚ was a horrific event because people lost sight of their common sense and their rational judgement. Fear‚ anxiety‚ and terror boiled up within the small town of Salem largely due to the rigid theocracy. This event in history has shown how the connection between the government and church led to the loss of justice and a mass slaughter. It was believed
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The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it’s doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late 1600’s in Salem‚ Massachusetts. It shows the people’s fear of what they felt was the Devil’s work and shows how a small group of powerful
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of the most prominent themes in the play The Crucible is how hysteria can tear apart society and is impossible to think through with logic. There are many examples in the play were the witch hysteria caused for many decisions to be made out of paranoia rather than logically thinking which lead to the collapse of the salem society. The quotes that show this rash thinking are spread throughout the novel as people are accused of witchcraft‚ in the end of the play people begin to realize they didn’t
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The overall message of Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ is that when uncontrolled hysteria is combined with ignorance‚ the outcome is tragic. While Miller offers his audience some comic dialogue to soften the events it does not mask the horrifying reality of the witch hunt and its aftermath. Rather‚ the humorous insights serve to reveal the simplicity and innocence of people living rustic lives in a God-fearing community. Several characters‚ Paris and Hale‚ Mary Warren and John Proctor‚ provide
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What is a crucible? A crucible is a time in history when political or cultural changes take an effect‚ changing a society into a different shape than what it began as. Throughout the play there is a battle between truth and deception that is set in the Protestant town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. In Salem at this time young women were accusing their elders of witchcraft just to get out of a whipping. Many people were dying because they would not lie and condemn their soul to an eternity with the devil
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