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The Crucible

Appeal To Fear

Marisol Gutierrez

Maira Sandoval

Jesus Cuellar

Fallacies

The Crucible Example

The New Millennium

The new millennium, from the year 2000, is a real life demonstration of appeal to fear because the minor threats and conclusions that pervaded around the world made people fearful of an event that would not occur. Right before the end of 1999, there were rumors about the world ending because all the computers were only programmed to work until 1999, and every business that relied on computers would shut down. People said that the malfunction of the computers would be "the end of the world" and many individuals decided to collect all their money and stock up on food because the stores would not exist. But the years continued...

pg. 20

Abigail: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured with Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And i know I can do it; I saw Indians smash, my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and i have seen some reddish work done at night, and i can make you wish you had never seen the sun go up! Now you--sit up and stop this!

Explanation:

In Act 1, the threat that Abigail gives the girls, who are culprits in her witchcraft scheme, is an example of appeal to fear. Abigail frightened the other girls by saying that she will murder them, which would probably not happen because her uncle is the reverend of Salem--she is not brave enough to hurt his reputation. The reason why this quote represents appeal to fear is that Abigail threatens the girls with false consequences if they speak, and even though her threat is unrealistic, she is able to manipulate them by using that scare tactic.

The Crucible Example

CHEEVER: The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to fear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she – to Proctor now – testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed in.

The Crucible Example

Act Two (Pg. 74)

Explanation

Cheever appeals to the people's, those in the courtroom, fear of witchcraft and of being harmed by witches themselves. He depicts how Elizabeth Proctor allegedly bewitched the poppet so that whatever happened to it would happen to Abigail. The people in the courtroom will be afraid of Elizabeth harming them in such way, which did not occur, and thus urge that she be hanged.

"She'll kill me for sayin' that! Aby'll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!"

Act 2

Pg. 80

Speaker: Mary Warren

Mary is explaining that if she confesses in court, Abigail will kill her. Abigail has shown her to be scared of her and Mary fears punishment if she disobeys her.

Picture Analogy

Explanation

Appeal to Fear

The climate at the moment is a very important issue, but in this image people are urged to make a change through deception and fear. They are not warned of possible health or climate issues, instead, they express to the public that if you don't make a change you will physically go through changes and become some form of mutant man-fish; clearly that will not occur.

Definition: An appeal to fear is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice toward a competitor.

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