Hysteria

to do everything they can to feel the sense of safety. Arthur Miller and so many others had to endure many struggles that were brought upon them during the Red Scare and witchcraft time period. The Crucible, in its entirety, is allegorical to the hysteria that roamed the America’s in the 1950s, by depicting how reputation was significant, and how intolerance clouded people’s decisions.…

The ongoing witch trials in Massachusetts have been a source of shock and horror among residents of surrounding regions. A number of towns have been involved including Salem Village, a tight-knit Puritan community with about 550 residents. The community is very religious and firmly believes in God’s providence. The madness began last spring in 1692 when two young girls named Betty Paris (9) and Abigail Williams (11) began to display bizarre behavior. A doctor found that the “convulsive seizures,…

HealthyPeople.gov states one of the 2020 global objectives is to, “Improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies” (GlobalHealth). This objective highlights an awareness exist in the necessity to monitor global health in relation to American welfare. Therefore understanding what the stakes are concerning the possibility of an epidemic and how said epidemic is handled on a national level is extremely…

In 1606 Early European migrated to North America in desire for money and land. (Jamestown and the Founding of English America). But as time passed, a Village called Salem in Massachusetts around 1692, Puritan minister Reverend Parris finds a group of girls dancing naked in the forest, while he slightly witness the girls dancing among themselves, they were doing rituals to make their crushes fall in love with them. Among them are his niece Abigail and daughter Betty, who faints upon being…

Blame in The Crucible (A Character Analysis of Abigail Williams in The Crucible) Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, once said “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” In his play The Crucible, there are many examples of betrayal and mass hysteria in the play and there are many different people who cause each. But, as in each tragedy, there is always one main antagonist. Some would say John Proctor is responsible for all the wrong done in the play. He is to a point, but there are three…

In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller there are numerous amounts of examples surrounding the social injustice that occurred during The Salem Witch Trials. The social injustice demonstrated throughout the play impacted the mass hysteria during this time period significantly, causing numerous deaths due to false accusations of witchcraft. These innocent people accused of accompanying the Devil were incriminated in order to shift the blame off of themselves, and get others in trouble. Social…

deceptive appearance of a ‘happy’ marriage. The gradual insanity that Jane achieves is more of a suppression of her imagination, not her expression of it. This also results in situational irony, where John’s treatment, instead of helping his wife from hysteria, backfires and worsens the depression she had…

Arthur Miller’s play criticizes the intolerance of the theocratic government and the rampant hysteria found in the community. Miller wrote, “The witch-…

neurologist and was known at the time for being able to treat hysteria successfully. He had a patient who they called “Anna O” who he diagnosed with hysterical neurosis. Breuer helped relieve those symptoms by using hypnosis, which would help her recall some past memories and then they could discuss them. He labeled this technique as the “talking cure.” Freud was fascinated by the case of Anna O. and this is where the beginning of his interest in hysteria and hypnosis originated and his idea of…

In Arthur Miller's book, “The Crucible” a group of girls accuse innocent Salem citizens of conducting witchcraft. This creates hysteria in the village and leads to mostly everyone being falsely accused. Abigail Williams begins the false accusations, she does this in order to be with her desired lover John Proctor. Abigail and John Proctor had an affair, John Proctor's wife dismisses Abigail from being their servant for that reason. As a method to have John Proctor, Abigail falsely accuses John…