In class this week, we read the Crucible by Arthur Miller and finished reading acts one through four. We discussed about how the characters throw all their accuses blame someone else to prove their innocence. The characters were afraid of death as the accusations of witchcraft, then the mass hysteria spread throughout Salem, Massachusetts. Mass hysteria is a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness, according to Dictionary.com. One of the examples of mass hysteria is the French Cat Nuns in 15th to 19th centuries. Due to low mental stability of being separated from families from young age, young female nuns began to meow like a cat, then
