Fear
and Mass Hysteria Reaction Paper
Fear, it is an
unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger.
It is also known as alarm, anxiety or dread. This emotion causes the humans
normal response to something change and to react in an irrational and sometimes
self-destructive way. HIV, AIDS, bad
grades, a virus epidemic, germs, zombies, ghosts and 9/11 are many things that
cause or caused fear in a person’s daily life.
Some fear is based on truth, such as
HIV and AIDS. Other fears are rumor based, like zombies and ghosts. Sometimes
fear is just watching the mind-blowing crash of two planes into the twin towers
in New York over a television and watching family, friends, and acquaintances dying
in an instance and some running for their lives. 9/11 is the most recent and
biggest fear that the United States has been faced with recently and fear shows
itself in many ways to us every day.
The events of 9/11 caused fear in
millions of people in the snap of a finger. Al Qaeda put many fears into the
homes on families. They were a group of extremist terrorist that wanted the
United States to suffer. Many family members and friends where lost in minutes
all because of an extremist terrorist attack. This fear of
losing our family members and friends is the same fear the Salem Witch Trials
brought to many people. The fear of others dying in and instance without
warning or time to defend themselves. During 9/11 people could only stand by
and watch as the towers fell to pieces with many people inside. At the same
time, during the Salem Witch Trials people would also just stand by and watch
as people they knew would be killed because of false accusations. Many people
were persecuted in both instances because of something as simple as a religion
or game being taken to an extreme.
