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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: My high school performed this play two years ago. I also read the play for English class last year. I can never get tired of it. Arthur Miller brings history alive, in lines you can't forget. Stick with it, you'll understand everything at the end, I promise!
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Summary: Frightening Tale; It's validity makes it even more so!
Review: Anytime one reads a story that is inspired by an event that really transpired, it adds to the power of the message. The close-mindedness and foolishness of the Puritan leaders is shown effectively by Miller. While I disagree with some of the themes that suggest that it is worth it to die for one's religious beliefs, I was moved by the storyline.
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Summary: This is one of the most moving and educational plays
Review: This ranks right up there with Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." It is a play that has the same tragic ending as Romeo and Juliet, but has more of a historical significance to it. It tells about one of the most tragic events in our colonial period. Miller brings up the Salem Witchcraft Trials so vividly, and talks about a subject that other writers refuse to talk about- a devastatingly terrible time in our colnial period. He was the first writer I ever knew to actually be brave enough to talk about a dark time in our supposedly glorious colonial time. I definitely give this 5+ stars.
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Summary: Looks Good
Review: Haven't read it yet, but it looks good. 5 stars all the way
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Summary: Stick w/ it
Review: At first when i began reading this book it was SO boring. For the entire first act i had no idea what was going on. But then in the second act all of a sudden i understood everything and realized how good a book this is. this was a good book but you have to stick with it, this is the kind of books that grows on you.
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Summary: best damn play i've ever read
Review: red it for yourself and you'll find out janice kosak
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Summary: 98º rules
Review: 4 words...Nick, Jeff, Drew, Justin. Go 98º! You rock. so what if this isn't about the book...they still rule....way more than the crucible did!
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Summary: boring!
Review: this book is really boring! yeah it has a good point to it but i t was way to long!
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Summary: Excelent!
Review: I bought this book on the basis that the introduction was good. Upon discovering that it was a play, I almost put it down. (I've read some pretty boring plays.) Dialouge just didn't do it for me. This book had changed that bias forever. "The Crucible" is wonderful. It's high intensity scenes are captivating. Definately a book for a quiet evening and a cup of tea.
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Summary: A Miller's Social Drama of Moderation
Review: Certainly Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a social play. Miller dramatically represents "the way men ought to live," a life of moderation. Social plays, according to Miller, must not destroy he who becomes cognizant as the curtain falls. The Crucible destroys neither Rebecca Nurse, nor John Proctor; this piece destroys those who seek to destroy. The drama is social because man must choose the middle ground; if not he destroys his fellow man. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Miller's play is not merely a parallel to the McCarthy era, but an additional reminder that moderation is the true path in life. Social dramas, as Miller defines, show man the way to live; The Crucible tells man that in order to prosper he must eschew dichotomy. Only he who obstinately clings to the dichotomy of right and wrong and good and evil will truly suffer, while inhibiting man's progress...Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a brilliant social drama. Miller brilliantly accounts that in 1692 and 1953 "the world is gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes"(Miller 33). These absolutes are the Devils who haunt Salem, depriving the town of its life. Miller's social drama opens up to man the haunting historical fact that if man should stray from the center, he will destroy his polis, and his fellow man. "The concept of unity, in which positive and negatives are attributes of the same force," Miller elucidates, "in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the few who have grasped the history of ideas"(Miller 33). Moderation is the key to man's happiness; with dichotomy present, so too is the evil of man.
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