Panic

Most individuals are not crazy by themselves; it is when people group up that causes mass chaos. During the Salem witch trials, people went crazy and started killing innocent women because of mob mentality. Usually under normal circumstances, the characters would never say the things that they said during the witch trials. They revealed all the issues and problems and blamed and accused others for their own gain. This mob mentality reminds me of the movie World War Z. The movie is about how people react and survive a worldwide epidemic. The virus turns people into zombies. World War Z begins with the main character and his family. No one knows about the zombies yet, but they see many police officers and there is a huge traffic jam. When a explosion goes off, people begin to panic. One scene is where a truck driver decides to ram into all the traffic. Still nobody knows the cause, but they began to run and scream and chaos consumes everyone's action. Flight or Fight kicks in and people go insane. They do things that they would normally never ever do. The environment and people around them causes them to go crazy. In both the Crucible and World War Z, mob mentality plays a huge role in how people act.