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Title: Crucible,
the
Author: Arthur Miller
Genre: play
Rating: 
A play about the Salem witch-hunt of 1692. We get to see what happens in
communal hysteria when the daughter of reverend Parris comes back from dancing in
the woods very ill. It is said that she and the other girls were met by the
devil. After that everybody is accusing everybody for having something to do
with the devil and witchcraft, all for different reasons. One for example is
Rebecca Nurse who is a midwife and has delivered only dead babies at a family.
Reason: she must be in contact with the devil.
All the accused have two options: confess, be released and return to God or not
confess, keep your dignity and own truth and be hanged.
Miller makes it very clear what happens when people make each other crazy and
the (too big a) role the church and religion play in it. His writing leaves no
mistake, the play is well written, but sometimes I was lost. I think that was,
because of the subject that doesn't really appeal to me, the number of
characters, too much at some points and the fact that it is the story of a
little American town in the 17th century. What I did like is the fact that the
situation described can be paralleled with all the other incidents when communal
hysteria hits the history of human kind. Everyone can think of numerous times,
although we try to forget them.
Read this play to remind you!
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