Hysteria

Witchery is charged through fear. Sofia Marinucci investigates the power of fear through Arthur Miller’s classic play ‘The Crucible’. Is fear really worth all the hysteria? Don’t get me wrong, it is good for everyone and everything to have fears, but what is too much fear? Fear is no worse than any other weakness, indeed it is the worst weakness. However, in modern society fear is seen everywhere and influences the public to take extreme measures and act irrationally. Terrorism plays a major…

For example, Thatcher uses the word hysteria (negative diction) to explain a troublesome event and then uses jocular (positive diction) as a description word for Reagan. [D: Rephrase] “... in the midst of hysteria one great heart at least remained sane and jocular.” (Thatcher, 20-21), by using positive and negative diction Thatcher provides a strong contrast of the evil of…

The reflection of hysteria and false accusations that characterised the McCarthy era is illustrated in the stage directions of ‘Goody Osbourne - will hang! [there is a shocked pause, while she sobs]’ this allows Proctor to reflect on his inaction and his refusal to get involved…

more torturous and gruesome. Some of the reasons include shark attack, dehydration, sun exposure, hysteria, combined with hopelessness. The men aboard that died of shark attacks died because they were in the warm shark infested water of the japanese war zone. They died because of the wounds inflicted and the sharks violent curiosity. Many men fell through the cracks of sanity and succumbed to hysteria. The brutal environment made their mind play tricks on them leading themselves and others with…

‘taking care’ of herself for her family’s sake is considered her priority. This highlights the fact that the methods through which she does this are highly questionable. This is important because the rest cure is widely accepted as the way to resolve hysteria, especially by men who have not taken the cure, and the narrator tries to defy this. However, this is with an unheard voice. She attempts to tell her family she feels trapped, but her opinion is almost entirely ignored because of her…

The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

The idea of marriage and husbands as a restraining and minacious force was - given societies condition - a reality for women, whom naturally harbor bitter indignation for their dependence on marriage and men, and their silence concerning their infantilization by the hands of both. Charlotte Perkin Gimmen’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Malmar McKnight’s ‘The Storm’ are both examples of women’s oppression within the domestic sphere, and how the idea of marriage as a madhouse suggests at the…

Dissociative Identity Disorder was one of the earliest studied psychological disorders (Early History). The case of Jeanne Fery is believed to be the earliest historical case of D.I.D. which can be confidently diagnosed. Both she and her exorcists wrote detailed accounts of her “exorcism” (History). The symptoms/characteristics of the disorder as documented by Fery and her “exorcists” exactly match those that are used to define D.I.D. today (D.I.D. Research). Fery’s exorcists described her…

The Domino of Sin Consisting of so many twisted lies and selfdriven acts, The Crucible is an opportunity to see what a small dosage of sin can do to the provincial town of Salem. After one accusation, how fast will it take the mass hysteria to birth tens of accusations on innocent towns people? Perhaps the people of Salem are too self involved to see the greater common good for others, or maybe it is induced by the pridefulness and greediness that is increasingly thriving through the puritan…

example of hysteria overtaking the community. Two dozen people were hanged due to the trials. Although there have been other cases in history that have had large amount of people being frantic, very few led to lives being lost, nor were as accepted in the community as in Salem. Due to certain aspects in the community and due to their beliefs, the frenzied cases of Salem were allowed to take place where the obscure reasonings would not have been accepted in most other places. Acts of Hysteria The…