The Crucible 2
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“THE CRUCIBLE” By ARTHUR MILLER
ESSAY QUESTION: “Miller tries to show that conflict in “The Crucible” stems from certain recognisable human failings such as greed, vengeance, jealousy, ambition, fear and hysteria.” Discuss this statement and, where possible, refe ....
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.... the character that initiates the hysteria of the Salem witch trials, in a community where authorities wasted no time minding the business of it’s citizens, what should have been seen as teen frivolity was blown into one of the ugliest moments in American History. Parris sparks this by firstly acting on his own paranoia, which the reader would find in the introduction “he believed he was being persecuted where ever he went”, and calling Reverend Hale in an attempt for self-pr ....
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Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
