Hysteria

her relationship with Romeo is threatened on multiple occasions, one such being when she claims “...If all else fail, myself have the power to die.”. It is clear that this love she has found with him is the cause for her to move from rationalism to hysteria within those lines alone. Juliet even goes behind her parents’ backs to make a plan with Friar Laurence to fake her own death before running away to be with her true love. She displays that she would rather leave everything her parents ever…

The Rape of Cassandra. (3rd Painting) It's an adaption of the scene where Ajax the Lesser is about to take Cassandra off the temple as he rapes her on the statue of Athena . The difference is the baroque style which is different from the other two. The emotion is very expressive it’s much more important if they got much stronger stances and expression compared to the other two. Baroque style exaggerated expression and features of the scene, for example, the colors are very vibrant the characters…

allegory, which enabled him reveal prominent issues of his time through what was seemingly historical fiction. He does this through making the point that witches, despite not being real, were viewed as a threat to society. He also highlights the hysteria that plagued the nation and the fear spread by the trials. Many argue that McCarthyism cannot be compared to the Witch Trial because unlike the fictitious witches, communists actually existed. Miller states that…

thousand that dared to rise against the law" (Miller 129) This quote proves Danforth could care less about the people's lives than the livelihood of his power. Another example of Danforth's abuse of power is when Giles Corey refuses to give in to the hysteria and multitude of lies, resulting in Danforth threatening Giles to prison until he speaks. This confirms how Danforth will use his power in a negative way due to his low tolerance of an opposition in his courtroom.…

As one analyzes the widespread hysterical events of the Salem Witch Trials, depicted in The Crucible, they could compare these seemingly irrational ideas in relation to current religions and races in our society today. So-called witches of Salem were convicted and hanged on flimsy evidence that proved no wrongdoing whatsoever. In today’s world, Muslims and many other Middle Eastern people are accused or quietly assumed to be dangerous. I can compare the events of the Salem Witch Trials in…

appear in their confined time period and disappear again. Instead, their causes and consequences are dispersed, reflected, and reiterated through new events of different conditions. The atmosphere filled with the pressure to conform and the mass hysteria following an act of dissent in a seventeenth century theocracy based community resurfaced again in the twentieth century. The only distinction found between these events was not the emotions felt, but the environment in which they happened.…

Although, both events have been put in the past, hysteria will more than likely stay with us. As long as there’s someone to blame for your problems there will be scapegoats, and hysteria. The people during The Great Depression created pandemonium and more problems than needed. They struck fear in people when people started to perform crimes like mugging and killings…

own witch trials. Many attributes of their trials were terribly inconclusive. The testimonies were being believed on a dime. There were threats dispersed if they did not confess, the evidence was false and derogatory. Everyone was in a mass frantic hysteria that clouded their judgment. Lastly the officials were egotistical and did not care about anyone but their selves. All of these led to the innocent death of nineteen villagers.…

Witch hunts were practiced throughout history from Europe to the New World, one of the most famous occurred during 1692. The settlement of Salem Village, Massachusetts, was in hysteria. Fear of the devil and witches overran the population. This was due to the pressures that were put on this Puritan community after the war between the British and French over the colonies in 1689. Also pressures from disease, and fears of attacks from the neighboring rival town of Salem Village, as well as attacks…

to include in the history of magic. Going forward, the including of all genders and removing unnecessary genderization is key to the continued development of a more progressive and inclusive practice, and is necessary in preventing another witch “hysteria” that took so many lives in the…