Panic for the People Palms are sweating, legs shaking as anxiety creeps in, and the heart beats faster and faster, racing at a speed rivaled by a racehorse. Fear is a crippling emotion that leaders have used for centuries in order to control the masses that they rule over, ignoring the fact that the use of fear weakens the government. During the time of colonial America, the leaders of Salem intimidated the people of Salem into following their orders, similar to how McCarthy controlled America and how Kim Jong-Un has ruled over communist North Korea. Although critics argue that fear helps leaders govern, it actually weakens a government because leaders generate hysteria through their beliefs and actions, promote injustice, and lose sight of
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In the Crucible, Abby’s crew of girls embody this when they begin to turn on the town. Immediately after Tituba gets rewarded for turning others in as witches, the teens go into a frenzy, yelling out all the names they claim have made pacts with the Devil despite their strict Puritan beliefs (Miller). This scene is pivotal to the story because it shows how the hysteria began growing in Salem until it exploded out of control, and the trials took over daily life. Had the girls not wanted all the attention and praise, the trials would never have taken off, and the sense of panic never would have penetrated Salem. The United States as a whole fell into a similar trap due to corrupt government official Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy put Americans aside, by creating a state of panic during the Cold War by “level(ing) charges of disloyalty at celebrities, intellectuals and anyone who disagreed with his political views,” ( “Red Scare”). This is important because it shows how selfish and untrustworthy McCarthy was, that he was willing to destroy his own citizen’s lives simply because they disagreed over views. Trying to devastate the lives of those whom he works for clearly is an example of a leader gone haywire who is making selfish decisions and weakening the government that he is a part of. Arguably, Kim Jong- Un is the most adulterated example of this situation. In reference to the murder of multiple members of the prominent leader’s family, North Korean officials compared them to branches of a tree that needed to be pruned for the tree, Jong-Un, to grow stronger. (“Revealed: Kim Jong-Un). Evidently, the dictator was more concerned about his family getting in the way of his rule then caring about the health and safety of his nation. The rather relaxed tone of the article also makes the reader infer that these brutal murders are
In the Crucible, Abby’s crew of girls embody this when they begin to turn on the town. Immediately after Tituba gets rewarded for turning others in as witches, the teens go into a frenzy, yelling out all the names they claim have made pacts with the Devil despite their strict Puritan beliefs (Miller). This scene is pivotal to the story because it shows how the hysteria began growing in Salem until it exploded out of control, and the trials took over daily life. Had the girls not wanted all the attention and praise, the trials would never have taken off, and the sense of panic never would have penetrated Salem. The United States as a whole fell into a similar trap due to corrupt government official Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy put Americans aside, by creating a state of panic during the Cold War by “level(ing) charges of disloyalty at celebrities, intellectuals and anyone who disagreed with his political views,” ( “Red Scare”). This is important because it shows how selfish and untrustworthy McCarthy was, that he was willing to destroy his own citizen’s lives simply because they disagreed over views. Trying to devastate the lives of those whom he works for clearly is an example of a leader gone haywire who is making selfish decisions and weakening the government that he is a part of. Arguably, Kim Jong- Un is the most adulterated example of this situation. In reference to the murder of multiple members of the prominent leader’s family, North Korean officials compared them to branches of a tree that needed to be pruned for the tree, Jong-Un, to grow stronger. (“Revealed: Kim Jong-Un). Evidently, the dictator was more concerned about his family getting in the way of his rule then caring about the health and safety of his nation. The rather relaxed tone of the article also makes the reader infer that these brutal murders are