Fear leads corrupt powers to alienate what one would call society. In Nazi Germany, the Jews feared Adolf Hitler who sought to destroy all people who followed the religion. Hitler notioned that the Jews destroyed Germany, which left them in mass poverty and hysteria. Therefore, witches from The Crucible in The Salem Witch Trials is another example of this. Abigail Williams, dancing in the woods, is unearthed at the wrong time by the wrong man, and to spite people who accused her of witchcraft, she conned people that other witches are roaming in Salem. Also Abigail starts accusing other innocent people out of fear to clean her name of any astringents. Furthermore, in the article Red Scare, America, currently …show more content…
What they soon unearth is that if one is accused of witchcraft, they could simply plead guilty, accuse someone else, and get away with it. Evidently, this lead to mass hysteria throughout the townspeople, and Salem. The Soviet Red Scare in America was a mass tension between communists of Russia and America 's Safety in the Cold War. “Elected officials from both major parties sought to portray themselves as staunch anticommunists, and few people dared to criticize the questionable tactics used to persecute suspected radicals,” (Red Scare). Therefore, citizens listed, and obeyed, to every possible stride taken by the government that would supposedly protect America. Without fear, people would never put up for the government to enact Executive order 9835, which mandated the that all federal employees must be analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government. (Red Scare). Furthermore, Fear makes people blind to the truth, and without people realizing that there is wrong in the actions being taken by certain officials, hysteria is only the next step at the end of the …show more content…
Furthermore, Abigail Williams, continues to accuse countless more people, for she knows she is doing wrong, but she makes sure to ensnare fear into the townspeople. Fear being aura 'd off Abigail shows how she turned her own fear, into corrupt power, and through these illogical accusations, gave her a place of royalty in the town. Furthermore, In Red Scare, there were thousands of Americans who had their lives disrupted because of the communist scare. They were hounded by law enforcement, alienated from (Red Scare) friends and family, and fired from their jobs and, “most others were the victims of false allegation or had done nothing more than exercise their democratic right to join a political