Examples Of Fear In The Crucible

As represented in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, fear played an important role and is exploited by the characters in the play. The Crucible beings with a group of girls accusing people of witchcraft for their selfish benefit.Fear is an emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to inflict pain , or a threat. Fear is an emotion that is capable of overtaking and controlling one’s state of mind and well being. However , fear can be used as a motivation factor. Fear influenced these people to take extreme measures and act irrationally. Additionally, fear is a master of suffering capable of haunting those who patronize it Moreover, in The Crucible this erratic emotion causes people to fear being labeled

Fear is a common human emotion, but the way some people react is different than others. Although, it is harder on some humans unlike other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” I think that means that fear harms more people than anything else does in the whole world. Also that people can scare themselves way easier than normal and it’s not healthy.

Fear can lead to a lot of things, but unfortunately, in humans it usually leads to something bad. Throughout history, fear has lead to some of the most violent actions by man, and some of the biggest collapses of organized society. In early American history, the people of Salem experienced this for themselves. Arthur Miller shows this in his book. The society of Salem that Miller creates in The Crucible shows how fear can slowly cause rational thought to deteriorate, leading to mass hysteria and eventually the breakdown of civilized behavior.

Mary Warren’s fearfulness is evident when she first appears in the play. In this scene, Abigail and Mercy are at Reverend Parris’ house, surrounding Betty- who is a supposed victim of witchcraft. After Mary rushed into the bedroom, she declares, “Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby!...” (1.18). Mary Warren is afraid of what will happen to the girls once the truth comes out. Mary Warren’s fear continues moment’s later after Abigail threatens her to secrecy. Mary, frighteningly, exclaims, “...Abby, she’s going to die. It’s a sin to conjure…” (1.20). Mary Warren’s fearfulness is a reflection of the strict Puritan faith. Mary Warren is not only implying

Fear: a simple word with an abundance of meanings. To one, fear can be losing a loved one and to another it can be being alone for their entire life. Ghandi once claimed that the enemy of every soul is not hate, but fear itself. This enemy, however, can be derived from hate, for everything you loathe is the reason for your distress. Taking the Salem Witch Trial as an example, fear portrayed an enormous role in the lives of many. During the time period of 1692 to 1693, fear controlled an entire village by manipulation and hatred. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible perfectly captures how fear is exploited by characters in the play because these characters used their hatred towards others to build up horror in the sacred town of Salem. Although this classic novel was written over fifty years ago, Miller touched on timeless societal fears that still apply to the existing world today. As seen through Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, fear can prompt people to denounce their beliefs in order to save their own lives, prevent their reputation from being tarnished, and it can make one take extreme measures in order to protect the ones they love.

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 caused hysteria throughout the town rapidly. Fear and paranoia were major causes of why this incident blew out of proportion and became such an intense historical event. When terror struck in the small town of Salem, the society went berserk. The fear of being hanged for witchcraft overcame the women of the community. The constant fright to be accused of trafficking with spirits, even if one knew they were not guilty, created this accusation frenzy. All the girls who had originally claimed they were “possessed by the devil” started blaming others for being witches and conjuring these spirits upon them, especially Abigail Williams. The court of Salem had said that all who did not confess were to be hanged because they were paranoid that if the women were to lie, there still would be witches lingering in their town. Some women decided to confess, even if they were innocent, because of the fear of death. Others did not confess because they were afraid of their reputation being ruined. Rebecca Nurse, a sweet, frail old woman in the town, exclaims, “Why, it is a lie, it is a lie; how may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot” when the court tries to convince her to follow John Proctor’s lead and confess her sins. She will not confess because she knows she truly is innocent; she would rather be hanged over creating a lying confession and ruining her name. Fear and paranoia was the root cause of the Salem Witch Trials.

Fear, An Unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something or someone is dangerous. Hysteria, exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion. Revenge, The action of inflicting pain or harm to another after they have caused damage to you. All of these emotion play a huge part of the Crucible, these emotions cause characters to lie, and make decisions that can change the life of them of people around them, sometimes good most times bad. Emotions can play a big part in life or death situations like we saw in the Crucible.

During the hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials, accusations of witchcraft were made most often with reasons beyond that of simply fear.

Hysteria and Fear The rise of hysteria and fear seems to build and evolve and it has a huge impact on the way things are viewed in the world today. The relevance of the theme hysteria in The Crucible does relate to modern society in different ways. In the crucible mass hysteria can have a massive impact on any community and the results can be devastating.

The book and movie Jumanji is fearful. The tone of the movie is fearful. Three reasons why the book,and the movie is fearful because a lion appears and starts growling and scares everyone,and then monkeys appear and start destroying the kitchen,and Rhinos stampede through the room and scares everyone. First,something that happened in the movie that was fearful was Allen got sucked into the gameboard.

“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear,” is a saying by the renowned French Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne. This theme is clearly displayed in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Fear is an ever present notion in day to day existence. It motivates and influences the actions that lead people to decide in which course to move their lives forward. This driving force can be seen within the motivations of the average individual, to political leaders, and characters within literary works.

Sometimes people are very afraid of telling the truth, their fear makes them live in discouragement. Sometimes, their fear also affects others around them because they lack self confidence .When this happens, important relationships suffer. The play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller has a dramatic storyline the characters struggle with the Puritan authority and the town people having to make a decision on who is telling the truth and who is hiring. The girls make false accusations because of their fear for the Puritan authorities because they torched Tituba and they can do that to them, also by doing this it may make their lives miserable.

Fear is a common human emotion, but how everyone responds to fear varies. The way we react to fear could depend on a very large spectrum of things. It could depend on the situation or on what one fears, on the person who is expressing fears’ personality, the events leading up what is inflicting the fear, or even past experiences. It could be any number of things. Many different people could be in the exact same situation and fearing the same thing, but each of them may have completely different reactions.

Mary warren try’s to set thing straight by saying "I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to believe them, and I-- It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits, and I --I promise you, Mr. Danforth I only thought I saw them but I did not"(219). This shows how easily people can be influenced into doing things when their peers are doing it. Also this happens when you are motivated and in this case Mary Warren was motivated by fear to follow the girls or be a witch.

One Character who lets their fear paralyze them is Mary Warren. She was fearful of Abigail Williams and states that if she says a word, that Abigail will kill her. Mary Warren knew the truth about the witchcraft in the woods, but was afraid of Abigail. Mary shouts to Abigail, “They’ll be callin’ us witches, abby!” (Miller 18). Although Mary was present during the witchcraft in the woods, she did not participate in them. Now that they might be punished, Mary is quick to point out that they should confess to the village. But as always Mary is scared of Abigail. Similarly, Elizabeth Proctor wants Mary to come forth about