Mass Hysteria In Upstate New York Analysis

In the article called “Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York”, the author Ruth Graham explains how many teenage girls are getting all the similar symptoms. Some of these symptoms are nausea, dizziness, cramping, and passing out. This has only happened to a couple boys, but mostly teenage girls. Also, some of these girls start to act dramatic over the things they do. Other girls seem to follow what other girls are doing. All their actions seem to lead up to mass hysteria. The definition of mass hysteria is a group of people all with similar emotional or physical symptoms. Mass hysteria could also cause threats to society spread through rumors and fear.
In the book “The Crucible” about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, also contained hysteria by the girls. Whenever the girls accused someone of being a witch, hysteria was shown. They would act like they saw a spirit or like they were being attacked by one. When one girl shouted out or cried all the others would do the same. Most of the adults seemed to believe them on about who they …show more content…
I feel like girls or women come down with hysteria because they are too over dramatic about things. Maybe the girls are sick because of the loss of consciousness, nausea or dizziness as it explains in the article “Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York”, but I believe that the crazy behavior is just all fake. The article also mentions “The Crucible”, I believe the girls were just faking it to catch attention. Also, I believe that this could be caused by stress. Being stressed could lead to many different illnesses. In the article it states that they never found any bad substance or toxins at LeRoy Junior High School in New York. In addition, the article said “But almost always, symptoms disappear on their own over time and physical causes are not discovered.” If the girls or others are faking it, then they just got tired of it and gave