fear and hysteria play a significant role in creating and driving the conflict and the chaotic events that take place in Arthur Miller’s ‘ The Crucible’? Fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger‚ evil or pain‚ whether the threat is real or imagined.1 It causes feelings of dread and apprehension. Fear can lead to hysteria- a condition where community wide fear overwhelms logic and ends up justifying its own existence. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ fear and hysteria are the foundation
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she got the fever in chapter 13(pages 88-95)‚ or when grandpa says no one was at the coffeehouse when he went back to visit. On page 97‚ Mattie’s thought wander in saying‚ “I slept and the fever fired my dreams with terror.” This phase‚ fear and hysteria‚ overlaps the next stage‚ but starts faintly in chapter eight and increases until about the end of chapter fifteen. Fear is still present after that but slowly fades as the fever does. This stage was one of the most important stages to the rising
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In many year‚thousands of ill people brought certain of hysteria‚which made people go insane. The life was very hard. The june bug epidemic serves as a classical example of hysterical contagion.A word of a bug cause them to develop the symptoms quickly spread. Social contagion involves social meanings negotiated at the level of persons and groups that are uncharacteristic to the spread the diseases.A similar situation occurs in the play crucible the june bug is that people were ill. People were lying
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emotionality and attention-seeking behavior (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder Fifth Edition‚ 2013). Similarly to modern times‚ HPD has been associated with the “mysterious nature of women” during the ancient era (“The "Female Mind": Hysteria”‚
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Hysteria What is hysteria? By definition‚ hysteria is a state of intense agitation‚ anxiety‚ or excitement‚ especially as manifested by large groups or segments of society. In a broader sense however‚ hysteria is a killer‚ the delitescent devil. More specifically‚ hysteria was the main cause of nineteen deaths in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692‚ and countless ruined reputations on account of Joe McCarthy. Hysteria does not just appear out of nowhere though. There are driving forces such as revenge
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Hysteria in The Crucible Arthur Miller’s‚ “The Crucible”‚is about the witch trials that occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts in the spring of 1692. For the people in the town of Salem‚ it was hard to believe that their own neighbors‚ who they thought were good people‚ could be witches. The plot of the play is quite disturbing. The play starts off with these 14 girls who cry out witchcraft. The town fears witchcraft so hysteria begins to take over. Later‚ dozens of people are wrongly accused
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Hysteria The state of hysteria in a society can spread faster than a brush fire‚ and be more dangerous then a San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event‚ promotion of the event‚ attacks due to pretense‚ and total panic and chaos. Webster’s dictionary defines hysteria as a state of unmanageable fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear‚ and will eventually cause social unrest
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the valuable metals from the not so valuable. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ Abigail is most responsible for the chaotic witchcraft situation by the end of act 1 in Salem‚ Massachusetts. In act 1 of Arthur Miller’s The crucible‚ Abigail is the most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem‚ Massachusetts. One of the reasons why Abigail is to blame for the hysteria is her personality; she is characterized as having “an endless capacity for dissembling.” On page 1093 of the play‚ Reverend
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Over time the definition of hysteria has been altered. Long ago it was believed to be a medical condition thought only to affect women. Symptoms of the illness included partial paralysis‚ hallucinations and nervousness. In the late 1800’s and through today‚ it is looked at as a psychological disorder (“Hysteria”). Merriam-Webster defines it as a state in which emotions (such as fear) are so strong that can cause someone to behave in an uncontrolled way(Webster). Hysteria can influence the way people
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"Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria‚ warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations." - Henry Giroux Where man has emotion that‚ along with conspiracies‚ that usually formulates within a collective population and has the potential to become mass panic‚ that in time becomes hysteria. With the occurrences of hysterias‚ individuals spasmodically act under the influence of propaganda‚ a figure of sorts‚ and various factors that may persuade
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