The Role Of Anger In The Crucible

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Anger is an emotion characterized by grudge and animosity toward someone or something it is a reaction to a perceived threat to us or some part of our identity. It is like warning bell that tells us that something is wrong. As it known in abstract stories, myths, and religious beliefs reveal the role that anger has played in human affairs since the beginning of recorded history .anger movement also started with the American feminism and the connection between the women’s rights movement and abolitionism in the mid-ninetieth. Anger symbolized in class conflict, it characterized by the revolutionary movement against societies in one’s play realistic setting is used and also the outspoken language, in order to deliver their message clearly.

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