Mass Hysteria In The Crucible

Many people believe that the infamous witch trials ended, however, facts prove otherwise. Long ago, there were believed to be witches in a place called Salem Massachusetts. The book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller in the year 1953, is a retelling of the horrific events that took place many years earlier that took the lives of 20 people. These people were hunted down for whatever evidence, fake or real, that would convict them. The new witches of today may have different labels or may not do do actual witchcraft, but they do get hunted down for reasons that are quite unfair. The goal is to bring these “witches” into the light so it may see what the people or you, the reader, are truly doing out of fear and anger what shouldn’t be done at all. The witch trials never ended and are almost identical to the ones today, which are are just as horrific as they were then with terrorists and racism abounding and modern day fears as well as the original mass hysteria in tow. Witches tend to be thought of as satanic and

In The Crucible Putnam says “You are not undone!...... declare it (the witchcraft) yourself…..” (15) He needs to get rid of Parris so he uses his fear against him. Putnam fought with anybody that could give him land that he thought was his or owed to him. The Putnam couple use the fear of witchcraft to attack those that may point at them as guilty or are stopping their rise to power. Mr Putnam sees himself as the best man in the village and thinks he should have the up-most power to use but the people placed others in charge. He now uses the fear to put those in his way in prison or worse, hung. This goes to show that hysteria is the difference between knowledge and the fear with the lack of