• In the Crucible residents inflicted with hysteria inflict dreadful atrocities against themselves and their community. (Religion, Mental Conflict and the Inability To Adapt)

     

    Essays1 Literature

Evaluation:
Published: 04.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'In the Crucible residents inflicted with hysteria inflict dreadful atrocities ag', 1.
Extract

Salem residents inflicted with hysteria caused by religion, repressed mental conflict and the inability to adapt causes them to inflict dreadful atrocities against themselves and their community.
Residents of Salem practiced a religion known as Puritanism. This religion gives the implications of a strict societal order that welcomes the repression of emotions. Residents were expected to keep their passions to themselves and were not allowed to let their infatuations get the best of them. Little did they know that their repressed passion would lead to their downfall in the manifestation of…

Atlants