Mental Illnesses In The Crucible

Witch hunts. When people hear that, they tend to think of witches being burned, or possibly, the Salem Witch Trials. These witches weren’t just hunted down and killed; they were singled out and discriminated against by everyone around them and forced into unfair trials where they would confess or be hung. There are lots of similar circumstances to The Crucible in our world. Individuals with mental illnesses and other mental health issues are one example. These people get made fun of, excluded, singled out, blamed, and told they are faking it and just fine when that’s not true. This is just like in The Crucible: people were singled out and accused of witchcraft, even if it wasn’t true.
The Crucible is a play written about the people in the town of Salem and the witch trials that were held there. In the very beginning of …show more content…
They have the right to. When leaving for the courthouse that evening, Reverend Parris almost got struck in the head by a falling dagger, which could have killed him. Now he is afraid to step outside at night because of the danger. “Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house - a dagger clattered to the ground. You cannot hang this sort. There is a danger for me. I dare not step outside at night” (Parris, 80). Fear is natural, but when certain things happen, we can develop an even stronger fear of things that possibly trigger that previous event. Certain mental illnesses cause people to be more afraid of certain things. Just as how Parris is now afraid to step out at night because of the falling dagger, people with mental disorders such as PTSD have constant stress and fear due to trauma from the past. Going back to how people pretend to have mental illnesses when they do this, it makes less and fewer people believe or care about the people who actually suffer from it, because everyone is going to start thinking they are faking it too. That about wraps it up for how mental illnesses are connected to The