How Does Hysteria Relate To The Crucible

Hysteria, It’s a powerful thing really. In the midst of a crisis this could really cause trouble. After all people can’t think straight when something goes wrong, it’s human nature to assume things rather than to rationally think. Humans are very social beings and they will follow anyone who they think is correct. It doesn’t take much for someone to blindly trust those who say they are doing good. The problem with this is that many of those they trust know what they want, and that thing is power. Power is the thing that no human can resist. It’s so tempting even if they do not see the power at first they will eventually catch on. Psychologically it is so grasping, some may say it turns humans into monsters, but on the contrary, those people were already like that. For example in the book The Crucible, a young woman by the name of Abigail Williams was caught after dancing in the woods with her friends and slave as they were “casting spells”. This was because she wanted the wife of the house she worked at dead. So on the topic of The Crucible, this book was written to be a connection to what was going on in Arthur Miller's time which was the height of the Cold War and one of the most infamous senators in US history, Joe
This caused many people to lose their jobs. “Known as McCarthyism, the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working.” ("Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin McCarthyism", 2006). This of course if we look back to the Salem Witch Trials is very similar to how Abigail took advantage of a situation for herself lying to convince everyone to go against each other just to shake off a reputation ruiner and ruin countless