The Sins of Fear: Dark History from the Salem Witch Trials to Modern Injustices
Words: 492 Pages: 2 2896Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Unfortunately, we cannot see the future to verify that he was right. Fear and greed are the driving forces of mass hysteria. According to Dictionary.com, mass hysteria is "a socially contagious frenzy of irrational behavior in a group of people as a reaction to an event." The effects of fear and the thirst for power are present in both Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, and […]