Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

6 reviews

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Death, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

leehillier's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexism, and Cursing

Moderate: Murder, Racism, Mental illness, Slavery, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

bethy_joy's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Grief

orchidlilly's review

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I actually liked a book school made me read? Wild, I know. But despite the sexism and the raging historical inaccuracies, it was fun to read. Maybe it was made more enjoyable by the fact that I got to watch my classmates read it out loud in horror and shame. The best thing you can do is make a bunch of high schoolers read out the lines of a horned up 17th-century character lol.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Cursing, Murder, and Ableism

Minor: Animal death, Antisemitism, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Ableism, and Classism

wandering_recorder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

It is no wonder that this play has earned its place among the classics, in large part due to the profound effect it has had on its readers and the world. The story itself details the dramatized version of the Salem Witch Trials, studying the unique situation that happened on a relatively small scale when panic and certain ideologies are pedaled by society and how individuals in that community react accordingly. Not only that, but the narrative features amazingly fleshed out characters that opens the questions to the reader of who they are as a person, what they believe, and what they stand for. Although given much anguish due to its forced reading in various schools, this story has nonetheless been one that has changed the way I look at the world around me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Toxic relationship, and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

diifacto's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny