However, Proctor’s character comes into question when his faith and disposition are tested as he is accused of being involved in witchcraft. Proctor is a local farmer and a respectable member of the Puritan community in Salem due to his authority and individuality. Miller utilizes the protagonist, John Proctor, to explore the impacts of false accusations and blind faith and how to overcome such trials by being composed.
Similarly, Miller also illustrates the McCarthyism hunt that saw many communist influences and sympathizers being blacklisted and hunted. Miller effectively depicts the effects of false accusations founded on blindly following religious faiths and cultural norms. During the time, social norms were founded on strict values that had grave consequences for those who dared to challenge them. The play was influenced by the Salem Witch hunts in 1962, which targeted individuals suspected of practicing witchcraft. В A L.A.The Crucible is a play by American author and playwright Arthur Miller in 1953. Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem." The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.
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