The Crucible: Book Review
I just finished reading The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. This is a play that I have read before, but I wanted to revisit it because I remember enjoying it quite a bit. Plays are not my favorite format—especially, but not exclusively—because I am just reading it. That said, for obvious reasons, I am not looking to short the story because of this fact. The Crucible is a story about the Salem Witch Trials, where a small town was caught in a craze of people hunting down witches supposedly hidden among its people. Miller write this in the time of the Red scare, led by Joseph McCarthy, as he hunted down communists that were hidden amongst America's celebrities. While Communists did and do exist, and while no one was being killed (thankfully), Miller thought there were parallels in the fanaticism and how the tribunals were executed. Basically, people were prompted to give up names in order to exonerate themselves, and since people were looking to protect their careers, they would follow th