Hysteria

By the beginning of the 18th century, the American Colonies had certainly forgotten their religious prosperity. The people felt as if they could make their way without relying on God for help. The Great Awakening was a religious movement through Protestant Europe, and the American Colonies. It became an evangelistic movement occurring in Germany, Scotland, and England. The movement was a result of the powerful preaching that made people believe they needed their sins to be forgiven by Jesus…

was born from a therapeutic method for certain nerve diseases which Sigmund Freud and his colleague and compatriot Joseph Breuer jointly elaborated around 1890 and which would produce the work Studies on Hysteria (1895). Freud's first concern in the field of human psyche was the study of hysteria, through which he came to the conclusion that hysterical symptoms were caused by repressed internal psychic conflicts. Over the years he would come to the conviction that mental disorders originated…

People will make their opinion within the first 5 seconds of seeing another person. Sometimes those opinions are accurate, but most of the time they are not. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible this can be read first hand. In modern day society, people make accusations and opinions based on prior knowledge and experiences. The premise of The Crucible is people making opinions of others based on prior knowledge and experiences, another thing that could alter one's opinion is another person’s opinion.…

or personal information by saying “if you don’t follow what we said, there will be big trouble”. These kinds of means are using the fear of victims to get what they want. Americans overacted of Ebola shows fear affect people’s judgement and cause hysteria. A report from CNN stated “A middle school principal ...who went to his brother's funeral in Africa[Zambia] is now on a weeklong paid vacation. Because parents pulled their kids out of school…once they learned of the trip. Zambia, which has…

the march. Out of malice, he murdered five officers whose intent was only to keep the people safe. Blind vengeance caused this killer to take matters into his own hands resulting in the death of five innocent men. The hysteria in the Salem witch trials is similar to the hysteria towards police officers now because they both are being blamed with no evidence, being blamed out of vengeance, and or being blamed from what society pushes. The police are getting blamed with little to no evidence…

paranoia there lies a bristling, unwelcome truth, so repugnant as to produce fantasies of persecution to conceal its existence” (Miller 21). He continuously repeats the word “paranoia” within this sentence, which identifies paranoia as the root of the hysteria going on in this time period. This repetition further elaborates towards the audience of how paranoia effortlessly covers up what is morally right to do, which is evidently not covering the truth. Miller then juxtaposes the purpose of this…

patient of Dr. Joseph Breur. In 1895, Breur and Freud wrote a book based off of the studies of Anna, titled Studies On Hysteria. In this book, Freud closely examined and withdrew conclusions and theories for the causes of Anna’s disorder, and with this book he began to introduce himself to his future theory of Dynamic Psychology. In this book, Breur and Freud rationalized hysteria with the idea that the disorder stemmed from a traumatic experience, usually in early childhood, that was above…

dangerous no matter the circumstances. This inferior belief made woman more vulnerable to witchcraft hysteria because of how careful they had to be with fitting the perfect image. Such extreme beliefs to the point of viewing women like this would also make them very puritanical. The Puritan’s beliefs were extreme when in came to how God and Satan interacted, and also their powers. Witchcraft hysteria was huge with the Puritans, especially the Salem Witch…

history. Many people died because of the accusations made by others. Then nearly three hundred years later, the problem began again. In the 1940s-50 people were accused of being communist or communist sympathizers. This would eventually cause mass hysteria; which is when a group acts irrational out of fear, and would cause people to lose their career. The Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism have some stunning similarities and differences. The Salem Witch Trials began on January of 1692 when…

who began the hysteria. When Mary was given the opportunity to right the wrongs of the accusers, she failed, and gave up, accusing Proctor of being a witch. “Mary Warren, screaming at him: No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God… Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!” (52). Shown as weak, Mary gives in to the power she knows the girls have, and brings even more chaos to the town. She has accused John of witchcraft, and now the town would be in even larger hysteria, and the…