Is mass hysteria really crazed madness? That’s what people thought when coming across an insane event. In Arthur Miller´s The Crucible and Real Clear Politics´ ¨Mass hysteria in America¨, both text explain how a person's action can turn into uncontrollable acts, cause people to imitate them and become known as hysteria. Within both texts, dancing, cases of delusion and multiple deaths due to insanity gives room for questioning on why hysteria may be the answer.
In both The Crucible and ¨Mass hysteria in America¨, dancing was one of the initial causes that lead to hysteria. Act I of The Crucible introduced the setting with some of the girls dancing, laughing, fooling around a pot of soup made by a witch named Tituba. The more they danced and sung the more involved they were with the devil and the disapproval of church. These actions were as …show more content…
In both text, even the people who were innocent were either persecuted or killed because of the suspicion that they were in contact with the devil. With The Crucible, the girls who were with Tituba all claimed that other people in the village were doing witchcraft to get out of being blamed. Even when the purest christians stood to their word of god, denying contact with the devil, they were killed because of suspension that they were. With the article it explained that interacting with hysteria could ruin reputations of others, family or even self representation. ¨ Betty: I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil!¨- The Crucible Act I pg 485 lines 1394-95
From evidence of The Crucible and Mass hysteria in America , a lot are in common with people acting out and changing because of the involvement of others. With both text, it seemed that when people did act out, it caused rage, revenge and distress resulting in death or abandonment. The only difference for both text were the times that the events occurred.
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In both The Crucible and ¨Mass hysteria in America¨, dancing was one of the initial causes that lead to hysteria. Act I of The Crucible introduced the setting with some of the girls dancing, laughing, fooling around a pot of soup made by a witch named Tituba. The more they danced and sung the more involved they were with the devil and the disapproval of church. These actions were as …show more content…
In both text, even the people who were innocent were either persecuted or killed because of the suspicion that they were in contact with the devil. With The Crucible, the girls who were with Tituba all claimed that other people in the village were doing witchcraft to get out of being blamed. Even when the purest christians stood to their word of god, denying contact with the devil, they were killed because of suspension that they were. With the article it explained that interacting with hysteria could ruin reputations of others, family or even self representation. ¨ Betty: I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil!¨- The Crucible Act I pg 485 lines 1394-95
From evidence of The Crucible and Mass hysteria in America , a lot are in common with people acting out and changing because of the involvement of others. With both text, it seemed that when people did act out, it caused rage, revenge and distress resulting in death or abandonment. The only difference for both text were the times that the events occurred.
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