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....