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Fear Promoting Lies
Title: Fear Promoting Lies
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1185 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fear Promoting Lies
Fear Promoting Lies
There have been many incidents throughout history where people were forced to be afraid of their peers. At these periods in time, a certain mass hysteria swept the area. Decisions were greatly influenced by the fear of their peers, leading them into governing their life by the public opinions of that time. Throughout The Crucible it is evident that the characters feel as if they lead a public life. Whether it be …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…one’s fear is escalated to death. A character’s mentality is also affected, as the consequences get worse, one feels that the more people that they condemn, the more pure they will be. It is mentality like this that cause such events as the Salem witch trials, and the search for communists in the McCarthy era that use fear to cause mass hysteria resulting in degradation and tyranny leading to death of innocent people.
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