Salem Witch Trial In The Crucible

Imagine a little boy riding his bike down a gravel road. He takes a turn too sharp and takes a really bad fall and scrapes up the entire left side of his face. His cheek stings; he touches it, and sees blood on his hand. The boy screams and runs frantically into his house. When his mother finds him she is completely horrified, seeing her child bloodied and crying. Her first reaction is to scold him and demand her to tell her
| what happened. She immediately feels remorse for her sudden outburst and apologizes. The mother did not scold her son because she was angry but merely because she was afraid, and it clouded his judgement. This can happen in any situation, but what if it were to happen on a larger scale? Collective fear and paranoia …show more content…
Once they realised this then there was no way that they could find any of those accused innocent and dismissed any evidence to prove innocence of those accused. The court treated those accused aggrievedly because they felt that they had to uphold the honor of the court to hide their own guilt.
During the Salem Witch Trials innocent people had to lie and say they were guilty in order to escape death. If one was to plead innocent then they were the court thought they were lying, therefore they were executed. This meant that people were lying so the court thought they were not lying which is utter corruption, and when everyone had to lie, it became a vicious cycle in which justice had been buried.
Fear causes corruption on any scale and in any way. Fear brings out the worst in people's suspicions and prejudices. This can become dangerous, even deadly when spread over a vast group of people. Mass hysteria relays collective delusions of peril whether real or imaginary. this causes everyone to be in a defensive state in which innocent people can get caught