Hysteria and The Crucible

Hysteria. That word describes the frantic happenings in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In the play unexplainable events happen and send a village into panic of hysteria do to the supernatural events. People talk about the happenings through out Salem Village, and one girl is behind the plot to get rid of her enemy; not to mention, she is the first building block in a wall that is being built on a mass extinction of …

…convicted. Soon they will realize their mistakes and how they partly caused Salem Village and Town to have a plague of mass hysteria. Even though masses of people wore brutally killed through fear, ignorance, and hysteria do to several girls trying to get out of punishment, at least as people we have learned from our terrible mistakes and have based our country on that you are innocent until proven guilty; not the other way around.