Dee reviewed The crucible by Arthur Miller
Jarring
5 stars
Miller is somehow always able to capture the worst of humanity in the simplest form.
Library Binding, 152 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 1982 by Turtleback (Penguin Books).
4 stars
(2 reviews)
A classic of the American theater —Arthur Miller's tense, ingeniously multilayered drama of principle and paranoia
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Authur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. --back cover
