THIS QUESTION IS BASED IN THE CRUCIBLE

7. Page 461, Exposition: Explain the paradox that Miller refers to in the final section of the exposition. A paradox is a statement that seems to contradict itself, but may nevertheless suggest an important truth. How does the paradox illuminate the playwright’s perspective on his subject?

In the final section of the exposition, Miller describes Salem, a community that was believed to maintain, peace, raise up the hopes of the people, unite the individuals, as a community that now has selfish interests, shatters the hopes of individuals and full of political aggrandizement.

This implies that the more the community attempt to bring the people together, the more disunited they become and the more they want to exterminate witchcraft, the more enmity they cause.

Girls who were actually witches in in Salem were not hunted while they kept going after girls who they only perceived were witches. He describes his as paradoxical.

he wants to suppress a potential uprising of the animals.

he wants to distract the animals from learning the truth.

he wants to prove to the other animals that he is

powerful

explanation:

i dont care if you mark brainliest cause im not desperate

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