Theme Of Hysteria In The Crucible

In The Crucible, people gained power through hysteria when the girls started accusing innocent people of witchcraft. First, people in the town received the accusations in large numbers by others without solid proof. Elizabeth Proctor started acknowledging the hysteria: “There be fourteen people in the jail now. And they’ll be tried, and the court have power to hang them too” (Miller 1163). Emotionally, Elizabeth told John of all the people accused of witchcraft by the girls and the hysteria that resulted from it. Deceiving others, the girls used the hysteria in the town to obtain power, which they used to avoid getting in trouble themselves. Next, the judges in town would not stop until they discovered all of the evil and rid the town of the evil. Danforth acknowledged the alleged witchcraft in the town and they lived in “a sharp time, now, a precise time-we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world” (Miller 1194). As the judge in the town, Danforth wanted to find all of the accused witches, hold a trial, make a ruling about them, and then get them out of Salem. Hysteria strengthened Danforth’s power as judge because he had the power rule whether the accused were guilty of witchcraft and he would not stop until all of there were no witches left. Continuing on during the trials, people in the town began to doubt the court's rulings and if the accused were truly guilty. To Parris’s dismay, as the executions went on, people became less enthusiastic and supportive of the trials: “When I summoned the congregation for John Proctor's excommunication there were hardly thirty people come to eat it. That speak a discontent, I think” (Miller 1221). Reverend Parris noticed the town

     Hysteria was a very obvious theme shown throughout the play, The Crucible. It was all started by a few young girls in Salem, Massachusetts. They were all dancing in the woods one night and were caught by Paris, the reverend in that small town. The next day two of the young girls were sick and would not move, talk, nor eat . The town began to start talk of witch craft

Throughout history, mass hysterias have occurred as the result of psychological stress and the irrational fear of the unknown. In fact, the Salem Witch trial was the result of the irrational fear from the town that the devil was present in their everyday lives. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller presents the consequences of the fear of witchcraft spreading through the community of Salem. Laura Dimon furthers Gladwell’s argument in “What Witchcraft is Facebook” by arguing that hysterias occur because of preexisting tensions and psychological stress. Thus, as long as the fear of the unknown is present in a society, oppression and psychological abuse will endure, resulting in individuals to feeling vulnerable and succumbing to the pressures of their disordered and dysfunctional environment.

Hysteria is an exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people. Hysteria is fear of the highest degree. Fear is defined as a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, is a story inspired by actual historical events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. People in Salem start accusing others of doing witchcraft and then the trend goes on in a continuous cycle.During the time of the Salem Witch Trials fear and hysteria blinded people from the truth.

“The Crucible” displays hysteria in many ways throughout the play, but the main act of hysteria was that it wrecked the people of Salem. Hysteria is an exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion, which is mainly demonstrated by divisions of society. Hysteria takes a main part of the play because it caused the people of Salem to do such unreasonable acts. One hysterical act in “The Crucible” was during the Salem Witch Trials, one hundred fifth people were accused for practicing

The Crucible was an amazing story by Arthur Miller filled with plot twist, drama, lies, with a lot of mass hysteria. In order to talk about mass hysteria you need to know the definition. Mass Hysteria is a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness. In this case that group of people was a town called Salem. The condition affecting the town is witchcraft. First of all Salem, in the 1600’s was a town with tons of people who cried witchery to anyone they didn’t like hoping they could get their revenge on the person by hoping they go to jail or get sentenced to death.

In sociology or psychology, mass hysteria is defined as a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear. During the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, this definition directly correlates with the behavior of the people of Salem. They also say that you can trace the cause of mass hysteria back to one person or a group of people. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a group of girls are plagued with sickness and are acting strange, but many people of the town think there may be a supernatural cause to it all. Being a Puritan town, they are very religious people and they constantly think the devil is out to get them. so they saw this as a work

Hysteria is displayed by communities all over the world. Hysteria in Salem is parallel to 9/11 when a tragedy that occurred built tension, and which caused chaos among the city. In scientifically ignorant societies such as Puritan Salem in 1692, fear runs rampant when a dozen innocent people are accused of witchcraft and are hanged. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, hysteria plays an important role of tearing apart the community of Salem by creating an environment where people act on their grudges and fears, which is expressed by many of the characters throughout the play, such as Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Judge Danforth.

“What is hysteria?” is what I would ask if I were a 17th century philosopher writing an essay on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, but I’m not. I’m a highschooler, so I can’t start essays like that. What I can do, though, is tell you why this play should be taught in schools. “Why should it?” you ask? It’s simple; There’s no reason not to. The Crucible is essential to modern curriculum because it gives insight into the issue of mass hysteria that can’t be conveyed better by other literature. “But, but the 40 year old protagonist has an affair with a teenage girl,” say all the concerned mothers. Well… Get over it, everyone else did.

The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is about a community that goes through the Salem WItch Trials and how it almost destroyed their community. One of the character, Abigail Williams deceives her community by committing adultery and lying about what she has done in order to save herself from the consequences of her mistakes. By the crimes she has commit causes a great conflict between the community by everyone starting to sin and out of fear they start to make lot of quick choices in order to save their town but it only makes it worse. Hysteria played a huge role in the decisions of the community, and how out of fear and excitement it did not let them think clearly about the choices that they were making, which almost teared their

Hysteria is displayed all over the world and is a key component in either making or breaking relationships. It refers to the loss of control over a person’s outburst of emotion or fear. In a more deeper context, mass hysteria can be defined as exaggerated or uncontrollable excitement or anxiety among a group of people. Basically hysteria can make people believe that their neighbors, those who they’ve always considered to be good people, are committing inane and absurd crimes. All of this takes the self interest in one person to start an irreversible chain of decay. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, this is the dilemma that Salem faces. The people of the town act on their grudges and start to turn against one another making false claims

Hysteria an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear “An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria” (Thomas Ligotti, The Nightmare Factory). Mass hysteria, through superstitions and false accusations, creates uncontrollable fear and animosity in a close community. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, discusses the events that transpire in Salem, Massachusetts during the chaotic times. Mass hysteria plays an important role in the play The Crucible because the nature of hysteria causes chaos and mask the truth.

Hysteria is a form of uncontrollable emotion, this is shown both in The Crucible and in the modern world. Mass shootings are happening all across the world; these events have blown up the media, resulting in fear amongst

Many characters can assume that their fellow citizens have been supernaturally worshipping the devil. "I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you...I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down (Miller).” This quote shows that if someone was blamed and contradict the accusation, they are hung right away but if they confused, they will ruin their name. The theme of hysteria is enduring and universal because there are similar things in modern life, for example, the racial profiling.

Hysteria shapes our live and determines who we will become though the process of developing ourselves to be imperturbable. It helps to comprehend what hysteria is--an overwhelming fear and elation that overrides all logic, and is often heightened and augmented by the presence of others who are acting out on that fear as well. Fear is the emotion of being terror-stricken of someone or something that is likely to cause you impairment, pain, or a risk. Hysteria was a major factor in the many accusations of witchcraft that transpired throughout The Crucible. For example when ()