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Comparative Commentaries to Go: Lies and Lynching, Then and Now

This comparative commentary to go puts together a contemporary newspaper story from India with an extract from Arthur Miller"s widely studied play, The Crucible. Both texts concern issues such as lies, rumours, and the brutality of a mob mentality. It is sometimes suggested that canonical texts become so, in part, because they stand the test of time, revealing something apparently universal about the human condition....

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