Fear is a catalyst for both social decline and for social reform. Fear can control people and cause a social decline as exemplified by the townsfolk who lived on Maple street in , “The Monsters are due on Maple street,” they didn’t understand what was causing so much commotion in their neighborhood and when it came down to trying to figure things out the people just began to turn on each other and kill each other for these ‘monsters’ were the people themselves and they feared what they didn’t understand, so they resorted to violence. A way fear can cause a sort of social reform would be in the stoning story where the people control a population outbreak by stoning a person to death. This is an example of a social reform as the population problem
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This shows in texts as in the book, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, the people have a fear of reading books because the government had outlawed reading. This causes a social decline as the people can't read to gain a greater knowledge about the world around them. The fear of their homes being burned down causes the people to not want to test the government and try reading a couple of books for the gaining of knowledge. The amount of fear in movies can also be connected to the movie and book series known as “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins. The example of fear causing a social decline is found in the very first book and movie as the people are afraid of the evil government that controls them and causes the teenagers to live in fear that they can be taken away from their families and forced to go fight and to kill each other for the “victory tour.” Plays are also great examples of fear causing a social decline as in the play “The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller, the people are afraid of a witch among them, so the male's go mad with power and begin to accuse everyone in their town that does something 'odd’. This causes a social decline as not only innocent people are being tagged and killed as something they're not, but the trust in that little town would never be the same
This shows in texts as in the book, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, the people have a fear of reading books because the government had outlawed reading. This causes a social decline as the people can't read to gain a greater knowledge about the world around them. The fear of their homes being burned down causes the people to not want to test the government and try reading a couple of books for the gaining of knowledge. The amount of fear in movies can also be connected to the movie and book series known as “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins. The example of fear causing a social decline is found in the very first book and movie as the people are afraid of the evil government that controls them and causes the teenagers to live in fear that they can be taken away from their families and forced to go fight and to kill each other for the “victory tour.” Plays are also great examples of fear causing a social decline as in the play “The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller, the people are afraid of a witch among them, so the male's go mad with power and begin to accuse everyone in their town that does something 'odd’. This causes a social decline as not only innocent people are being tagged and killed as something they're not, but the trust in that little town would never be the same