When asked “If you could only have one trait, characteristic, emotion,etc what you have?”, almost everybody say reputation and when they asked “What is the worst characteristic, trait or emotion to have”, they say intolerance but actually the worst trait and characteristic to have drowns out all other characteristics,traits, emotions,etc is hysteria or uncontrollable emotions or more specifically mass hysteria or group hallucinations of society threats caused and spreaded by fear and rumors. But in order to determine whether or not justice is best served in court of law, the terms justice and law must be defined first. Justice is broadly getting and knowing what is just based on moral concepts such as law, equity, ethics, rationality, religion,
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The book is set in a religious society in which the state and the church are the same where Puritanism, a form of Protestantism, is practiced. This religious nature produces the belief that the someone’ soul is something that the public should be concerned about as moral and state laws are the same. This religion has the tendency to see thing in “white or black” or good or evil. There is no such thing as “grey” or something that can be both black and white or both good and evil. This forces the idea that people has to be either with God or against God since unconformity to the moral laws threatens both the public and God and so disagreement is both unlawful and against God. This is the underlying logic behind the witch trials shown by Danforth’s quote “a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.”. The Crucible also demonstrate the power of hysteria or more specifically mass hysteria. Hysteria subverts logic and causes people to believe that their neighbors are working with the devil. In The Crucible, the people of the town become hysterical not only because they want justice but because of their intolerance and wanting to improve their reputation such as Abigail, Reverend Parris, Thomas Putnam,etc. Hysteria only happens when their is selfish desires in the name of
The book is set in a religious society in which the state and the church are the same where Puritanism, a form of Protestantism, is practiced. This religious nature produces the belief that the someone’ soul is something that the public should be concerned about as moral and state laws are the same. This religion has the tendency to see thing in “white or black” or good or evil. There is no such thing as “grey” or something that can be both black and white or both good and evil. This forces the idea that people has to be either with God or against God since unconformity to the moral laws threatens both the public and God and so disagreement is both unlawful and against God. This is the underlying logic behind the witch trials shown by Danforth’s quote “a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.”. The Crucible also demonstrate the power of hysteria or more specifically mass hysteria. Hysteria subverts logic and causes people to believe that their neighbors are working with the devil. In The Crucible, the people of the town become hysterical not only because they want justice but because of their intolerance and wanting to improve their reputation such as Abigail, Reverend Parris, Thomas Putnam,etc. Hysteria only happens when their is selfish desires in the name of