Examples Of Conflicts In The Crucible

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The Crucible Conflicts Essay
In the book “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, there are a lot of conflicts including Tituba being accused of dancing with the devil. By false accusation from a group of girls in the village, they force her to admit to it so that she can save her own life. Along with a village girl named
Abby, who is mostly responsible with everything that’s going on in the book, and a farmer named John Proctor.
In the beginning of the book, in the town of Salem, a group of girls was caught dancing in a forest with a black slave named Tituba. They were caught by the minister Reverend Parris. One of the girls, Parris’s daughter Betty, falls into a coma. A crowd gathers trying to find out if the rumors of witchcraft is true. Parris

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