Mass hysteria

Everyone has moments in their lives where they might just go crazy. Mass hysteria is “a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness” (Dictionary.com). There have been multiple instances where large amounts of people have identical symptoms that alienate them from others in society. Many factors play into the incline of mass hysteria in students over others: similar social problems, challenges, or

In today's world, there are multiple examples of mass hysteria. For example, ISIS is a popular mass hysteria in today's world. They give the world fear with terrorism, similarly to witchcraft in "The Crucible". ISIS's major begining was at a tragic event known as 9/11. This is an event where many planes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers. 9/11 created a fear among the United States. Soon many Americans started to easily suspect terroism. This connects to "The Crucible" due to the fact

the story, things got complicated and when everyone noticed, it was too late. A lot of people died and no one could stop it anymore. Even after everyone noticed, they couldn’t do anything against the judges. The Crucible is an good example of mass hysteria along with the events in The Halifax Slasher. They both show similar events but are different because of their setting in history. In the events of The Halifax Slasher, there was a mysterious killer roaming the streets of Halifax, England. A

are accused of witchcraft and some hanged. In Arthur Miller’s famous play The Crucible, mass hysteria leads to the wrongful accusation and hanging of dozens of Salem citizens for witchcraft. It also happened in 1962 when 62 textile workers came down with a disease that was blamed on the bite of a Junebug. When fear becomes widespread and delusional as it has in Salem, it is not fear anymore; it is mass hysteria, a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational

all because people were scared which is a form of mass hysteria. Mass Hysteria is the cause of many panics across the world such as in Le Roy High School in New York where multiple girls suffered a twitch disorder much like tourettes and then in Tanzania when villages west of Lake Victoria experienced an epidemic of laughing and crying. Similar outbreaks have been reported in schools in europe and the US”(Waller par. 2). Most cases of mass hysteria all have different causes and there are three which

This paper is about the diverse ways mass hysteria is classified in our society today, and the possible theories behind what really caused the events in Salem to occur. Janca and Simons portray their opinions towards different events of mass hysteria, and are able to develop their own professional theories relating to the mentality of the individuals that were caught under the influence of hysteria. Those individuals’ minds are examined, and their information is represented in this paper. The cited

Well, the answer is quite simple actually. Mass hysteria. Mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits ideas of threats, often imaginary, through rumors often causing chaos and evoking fear to strike in the so called affected places of the threat. The fact is, most of the affected children never even ingested

The Red Scare was a time when people feared communism. Investigators were hired to find spies from the Soviet Union. Due to the power of fear and mass hysteria, many people were accused of being spies who actually had nothing to do with the Soviet Union or communism. Arthur Miller discusses in an essay why he wrote The Crucible when he did. The mass hysteria from the Red Scare was very similar to that of the Salem Witch Trials, “In those years, our thought processes were becoming so magical, so paranoid

Hysteria an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear “An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria” (Thomas Ligotti, The Nightmare Factory). Mass hysteria, through superstitions and false accusations, creates uncontrollable fear and animosity in a close community. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, discusses the

Mass Hysteria Outbreaks Many students were taken to the hospital with a wide variety of symptoms.People pondered on what this could be.According to dictionary.com,mass hysteria is,”a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitementor anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms ofillness.”There are many incidents were mass hysteria is seen.It is a psychological thing where many people are coerced into thinking that something is thought to be something that