The Gathering Gloom

Zombie Desk

It doesn’t take commies or an alien invasion to turn us into The Walking Dead

The study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the fictional account of the Salem Witch Trials, invariably leads to the discussion of current-day hysteria. In English class, we study the paranoia of the witch scare, when superstitious Puritans believed that to allow a witch to walk amongst them was worse than allowing an Ebola patient loose in society.

An infected Ebola patient could merely kill you. A witch would condemn souls to eternal damnation.

And if Exodus 22:18 states that “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” well, our friendly, God-fearing ancestors took scripture quite literally.

Students are surprised to find out that hysteria comes from the word uterus. In the Middle Ages, superstition held that a woman’s uterus traveled around the body, making a woman emotionally unstable. So, when one of my female students shrieks at a scampering cockroach, I jokingly ask if her uterus is tethered.

The Witch Trials of 1692 to the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s is a matter of protocol. If time allows, we watch clips of Dr. Strangelove regarding our “precious bodily fluids.”

To students now, this seems ridiculous.

At home, far removed from Arthur Miller, to spend time with my wife often means watching Rick escape from Sanctuary in Walking Dead. My wife is crazy about zombies. I’m not sure why…

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