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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
one of the only plays i actually like, interesting social commentary and allegory with the witch hunt
dark
sad
tense
fast-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
I didn’t not read this book because a girl on TikTok said that she thinks Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve is Taylor Swift’s interpretation of this book from the perspective of Abigail.
Also, am I supposed to be rooting *for* the grown adult man who slept with a teenager while he was married and is now dealing with the repercussions?!?
I listened to the LA Theatre Works production of the audiobook which was a full cast production and very good. I would recommend it.
Also, am I supposed to be rooting *for* the grown adult man who slept with a teenager while he was married and is now dealing with the repercussions?!?
I listened to the LA Theatre Works production of the audiobook which was a full cast production and very good. I would recommend it.
fast-paced
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Committee thus offered what religion offers: the opportunity for confession and the grace of redemption. (Introduction; Christopher Bigsby)
An allegory to McCarythism, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is a partially fictitious retelling of the 1690s Salem Witch Trials wherein mass paranoia ensues when four young girls accuse members in the community of witchcraft. Puritan New England was steeped in a pious, dogmatic culture reiterated in the court of law, and anyone or act deemed unorthodox was thereby treated as a threat.
The lechery of Miller's protagonist, John Proctor with Abigail Williams (one of the four young girls), is the cornerstone in unraveling human natures vices in the town of Salem. A figure of paganism for his nonconformist attitude in not attending church regularly nor practicing Sabbath,
“Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.”
Seeking to reach Mary Warren's faith in her accusatory state against him, Proctor pleads to her personal virtue through Biblical means,
Through The Crucible, Miller concocts a flawed and complex protagonist in a terrifyingly timeless mirroring of society. A fast-paced, dynamic read, his writing perfectly encompasses the duality of human nature.
Would definitely read Miller's other works. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-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:
Complicated
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
John Proctor really IS the villlain….but also like once you give the ourobourous logic absolute power corrupts guys an inch they can and will take a mile and blame you for it.
Humans have spent the vast majority of our time on this earth living with "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", to quote [a:Thomas Hobbes|10122|Thomas Hobbes|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1267037419p2/10122.jpg]. It is reason that lights the way out of that dark world along a thin path to a brighter future. I use the present tense here because of course we are still very much on that path, as far from our ultimate enlightenment (if any) as from our chaotic past. But reason, in addition to being intellectually challenging and therefore easy to shirk, is also fraught with logical traps. The genius of Miller's play is that the malice of characters like Putnam, Abigail, and Parris may be the original impetus of the crisis, but the actual terrors are perpetrated by "men of reason" like Hale, Danforth, and Herrick. Mass hysteria is the phenomenon by which reason itself is hijacked, in a sense, like a cell infected by a virus, to do the evil bidding of the hijacker under the guise of all its normal high-minded principles.
Herrick, the jailer, Act II: "I cannot help myself. I must chain them all."
Hale, the investigator, Act III: "I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it."
Danforth, the judge, Act IV: "I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just."
They're flies in the amber, you see? They've been swallowed up by their own reason, trapped in this dark uncomfortable abstraction denying the reality of what lay before their eyes. The play is a vivisection of how this is possible, of the limits of reason, the little exploitable cracks, and the means by which passions and biases can creep in.
Herrick, the jailer, Act II: "I cannot help myself. I must chain them all."
Hale, the investigator, Act III: "I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it."
Danforth, the judge, Act IV: "I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just."
They're flies in the amber, you see? They've been swallowed up by their own reason, trapped in this dark uncomfortable abstraction denying the reality of what lay before their eyes. The play is a vivisection of how this is possible, of the limits of reason, the little exploitable cracks, and the means by which passions and biases can creep in.