Evils of Money and Industrialization in the Film, The Wages of Fear

Fear is a common human emotion, but the way some people react is different than others. Although, it is harder on some humans unlike other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” I think that means that fear harms more people than anything else does in the whole world. Also that people can scare themselves way easier than normal and it’s not healthy.

Fear can lead to a lot of things, but unfortunately, in humans it usually leads to something bad. Throughout history, fear has lead to some of the most violent actions by man, and some of the biggest collapses of organized society. In early American history, the people of Salem experienced this for themselves. Arthur Miller shows this in his book. The society of Salem that Miller creates in The Crucible shows how fear can slowly cause rational thought to deteriorate, leading to mass hysteria and eventually the breakdown of civilized behavior.

In the Crucible, Arthur Miller shows us how fear and suspicion can destroy a community. As the play develops, Miller shows us how fear and suspicion increase and destroy the community. Throughout the play it becomes apparent that the community gets more and more divided as time goes on. In the beginning there were arguments about ownership of land between some of the villagers.

Abby, an average, rebellious teenager, lives her day-to-day life as one might expect. She ignores authority when she is around her friends, keeps secrets, and gets out of trouble by using the outcasts of the school as scapegoats. She seems to have an air of authority and coolness that everyone wants, but little do they know that she is just trying her best to fit in. Some people might say that Abby’s whole life is influenced by the fear of fitting in. In the play The Crucible, there are also many characters who are motivated by fear. This play is about the Salem witch trial and how the conditions escalated to the point that 17 people died. Although some people say fear doesn’t have a big influence on people’s actions, fear is the greatest motivator of human behavior.

Fear is definitely not always a harmful emotion. Fear influences people to take extreme measures and act irrationally emotion. While fear is one of the main emotions people face, fear is not a always harmful emotion. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller shows us how fear and suspicion can destroy a community. As the play develops, Miller shows us how fear and suspicion increase and destroy the community. Throughout the play it becomes apparent that the community gets more and more divided as time goes on. In the beginning there were arguments about ownership of land between some of the villagers. As the story progresses people fear for their own safety and begin accusing their neighbours of witchcraft in order to escape being hanged. Salem became overrun by the hysteria of witchcraft. Mere suspicion itself was accepted as evidence. As a Satan-fearing community, they could not think of denying the evidence, because to deny the existence of evil was to deny the existence of goodness; which was God. In the 17th century a group of Puritans migrated from England to America - the land of dreams - to escape persecution for their religious beliefs. As Arthur Miller tells us in the introduction to Act 1 'no one can really know what their lives were like.' We would never be able to imagine a life with 'no novelists' and 'their creed forbade anything resembling a theatre or vain entertainment.' 'They didn't celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate

Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” in 1952 and about forty years later explained his purpose in an article titled “Why I Wrote the Crucible.” Miller expresses some of the emotions he went through as his book gained popularity saying, “I remember those years...but I have lost the dead weight of the fear I had then. Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth.” At first, he refers to fear as dead weight as if it was useless but still pulling him down but then he explains the importance of fear. He claimed that fear can warp our judgement which seems realistic because when people are in a situation the causes fear they are known to take out of the ordinary action. Miller also suggests that fear is a crucial part of our memory and without fear our memories can fade and the truth of the issue as well. Miller was likely fearful of the

Martin Niemöller once said,“First they came for the communists, but I was not a communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.” The culture of accusations is a part of hysteria. As paranoia ensued in “The Crucible”, Joseph McCarthy made false allegations that influenced many peoples lives. An affair integrated in Arthur Miller’s play created controversy among the community. Trials were held for those accused and lying was the only way to survive. The harsh truth that was revealed in “The Crucible” and the parallels between the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials show patterns in which fear was used as an advantage, unsubstantiated claims occurred, and unethical punishments were given.

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Our own emotions, especially fear, make us do the things we never saw ourselves doing. In the play “The Crucible” many of the characters actions are driven by fear. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. This emotion doesn’t have to control our actions.

If there is one thing that is impossible to escape in modern society, it is fear. Whether it be advertisers using frightful hypotheticals to sell a product, or politicians instilling panic into the citizens in order earn themselves a few extra votes, fear is found everywhere and anytime. With this in mind, it is no surprise that the use of fear seeps into the literature of the times, especially when the content of the work has a basis in real events from the past. Fear is an effective motivator as evidenced by the characters in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.

Fear, An Unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something or someone is dangerous. Hysteria, exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion. Revenge, The action of inflicting pain or harm to another after they have caused damage to you. All of these emotion play a huge part of the Crucible, these emotions cause characters to lie, and make decisions that can change the life of them of people around them, sometimes good most times bad. Emotions can play a big part in life or death situations like we saw in the Crucible.

In the late 1980’s, Ray Buckley along with his mother, sister, and teachers of the McMartin preschool faced 321 charges of child abuse additionally there were allegations of the group performing satanic rituals and traveling in secret underground tunnels. Many children from the preschool were accusing several people of performing bizarre acts much like the witch hunts that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, such hysteria brought fear amongst many. The Crucible a play composed by American author, Arthur Miller wrote this play about the town Salem that fell into mass hysteria after a group of girls Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ruth Putnam, Tituba and Mary Warren accused townspeople of witchcraft. Many may argue that the root and cause of the witch hunts were caused by the girls in the forest looking for revenge or trying to benefit from the accusations however the cause was fear amongst the characters this is demonstrated by Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, and Abigail Williams.

Fear applied to control occurs everywhere throughout history. Subconsciously enforced to make society behave a certain way, the Salem witchcraft trials used fear to make women accused of witchcraft confess to save their lives. Furthermore, victims of the McCarthy hearings betrayed their comrades due to this motivator. In The Crucible, a drama written by Arthur Miller, these trials from the 1690’s serve as an allegory for the McCarthy trials in the 1950’s, yet Miller did not only write The Crucible due to this, while other reasons include his fascination about the Salem Witchcraft trials and a warning for the future.

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas portrays the American political landscape as one that is plagued by savagery and excess. The novel paints capitalism as something that emphasizes and brings to light a potentially inherent ugliness in mankind, depicted through the simultaneous contrived and organic nature of such a dominating system. The book’s reaction to this system is a push and pull, two way reflection, mankind and the system influencing one another and sharing similar likenesses -- whether organic or socialized, culminating in Raoul Duke’s very reactionary response to the bleak and manipulatory nature of capitalism.The novel is full of various parallels, system and individual behaving similarly and almost attempting to outdo one another but just culminating in a circle of madness which Raoul Duke and his attorney attempt to yet can’t reject outright or at all. Raoul and his attorney exist in a political landscape that is vast, savage, and dominating, and through their attempt to protest and compensate for such a painful system through the use of drugs and excessive indulgence, turn out to instead be pained and flawed culminations of the system they are trying to protest.

The wages of fear was a fun and fantastic movie. Going into this, I realized that I wanted to watch a film that had horror in it as well as mystery and suspense. This movie starts off with the Frenchmen Mario, and Jo, Dutchman Bimba, and Italian Luigi being stranded in the remote town of Las Piedras. Circled by desert, the city is connected to the outside world only by a minute airport, but the airfare is much too expensive for the guys. There is limited opening for employment besides the American corporation that rules the town, Southern Oil Company (SOC), which runs the nearby oil fields and maintains a private compound in the city. SOC is speculated of immoral practices such as overworking local employees, but the townspeople's dependence upon it

The present paper is going to discuss the oppression of the poor and weak at the hands of rich and powerful people and also the ‘Fear of Divine Retribution’ in the story of Premchand ‘Power of Curse’. ‘Power of Curse’ (Garib ki Haii) presents the Exploitation of Munga, a Brahmin Widow by Munshi Ramsevak. He did not return her money which leads to untimely death of Munga and after her death the destruction in the family of Ramsevak begins. His whole family is haunted by Munga’s fear and the powerful impact of Munga’s curse leads to the fear in the minds of the whole family of Ramsevak. The story narrated the rural India where the Varna system was religiously followed.