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Fear In The Crucible

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The Prevalence of Fear Fear is something that has always existed since the beginning of time. In ancient times the notion of fear allowed humans to survive and not be killed by predators. While in modern times, the fear of the unknown has restricted creative learning and progress. Fear is a double edged sword and fear is something that is still affecting the daily lives of countless people to this day. Fear is something that has allowed us as a society to advance while at the same time, we allow it to hold us back, which has got to change. In our current society, we tend to be incredibly risk averse. While this isn’t a horrible idea per say this is something that can still affect us. “One generation... could transform the world by bringing …show more content…

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the concept of fear is apparent numerous times. This is firstly apparent in The Crucible when people start screaming “Witch!”. The masses of the town are afraid that they will be the one who has the blame turned on them, so they are fearful. This fear leads them to accuse others and starts an immense web of accusation in which all the people caught up in the web are innocent. One of the people caught up in this web is Mary. Mary then tries to free herself from the web, protesting in court that all the accusations are just a bunch of lies that the people manufacture up for their own preservation. Sadly, though she escapes the web she flies right back into it again. There is simply a horde of people supporting the web, turning what was once one thread into hundreds, giving everyone caught up in it no options. The most considerable showing of fear in my opinion is the judges in the story, who do not dare to say that they are wrong. Once they are siding with witchery, they stick to it even though it is an invisible crime, so you can only trust the witness and the accuser. They seem to choose the accuser larger amounts of the time and even if they realize that their ignorance of siding with the accuser is unjust, they do not care and do not want to soil their names. They are fearful that they will lose their reputation if

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