Mutantphobia

So as i was going through the notes, i discovered that we missed a good connection. Hester is pursued by hypocrites, Abigail is both the hypocrite and the pursuer, in both cases fear drives everyone insane, etc. The causes for social alienation are nearly identical. And one of my favorite examples of mass hysteria turning to procecution is the mutant war, human supremacy groups in particular. 

Through out the x-men comics, we see multiple anti- mutant terrorist groups: Friends of Humanity, Purifiers, The Right, Humanity's Last Stand, Sapien League, Sentinels, etc. Fear and blind hatred turns many citizens to violence, much like in both of the novels we read. In the Crucible, mass hysteria leads citizens to accuse each other of witchcraft and sin. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynn is used to scare children into following the church, and becomes the definition of sin; this gives the people something to unite against. In the Marvel Universe, these groups use fear to turn Mutants into evil symbols and use this fear to justify the killing of mutant children. So basically, id like to look at the connections between the persecuting group, finding motives for each.