Hysteria. That word describes the frantic happenings in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In the play unexplainable events happen and send a village into panic of hysteria do to the supernatural events. People talk about the happenings through out Salem Village, and one girl is behind the plot to get rid of her enemy; not to mention, she is the first building block in a wall that is being built on a mass extinction of people being hung in this full blow panic. Abigail William's, Reverend Parris' niece, is the ring leader in this case of hysteria. First she knows that she and her friends will just get a spanking for being caught dancing in the