Why Arthur Miller Wrote "The Crucible"
The play "The Crucible" was an urgent response to McCarthyism.
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The play "The Crucible," written by Arthur Miller, one of America's most influential playwrights, was an urgent response to McCarthyism and director Elia Kazan's controversial testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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the title is misleading, the question of why Miller wrote the play is not answered
@oohnana24
7 жыл бұрын
It says that Miller believed he had the perfect metaphor for the witchunts of the McCarthey era...
@brothernet
Жыл бұрын
last sentence answered it though Miller is wrong from today's point of view
@GorgieClarissa
5 ай бұрын
it's a segment of a full episode
They sure saw a lot of people with the devil. Must be a cool dude
@stephenwright8824
2 жыл бұрын
The late Christopher Hitchens said that if Hell existed, he'd rather go there since "that's where all the more interesting people were headed." I've no doubt the landlord is likewise "interesting."
Ms Fordice's class where ya at?
@platinumflameplays9101
3 жыл бұрын
@Brisilda G. yo
@matthiasduguey2131
2 жыл бұрын
Miss Nehme's class where ya at ?
Great video! Learn much so please! Good proper display of video.
@joshuadavis6126
3 жыл бұрын
not good proper display of grammar.
@matthiasduguey2131
2 жыл бұрын
fin fréro
Wow, just wow. See new work, Witches, 1692, by Stacy Schiff
i SaW ____ wItH tHe DeViL
today I watched in İstanbul this theatre play in Turkish
this video helped me with an english research, thank you! so good!
@fur4x
2 жыл бұрын
De rien ça me fait plaisir signé: jésus
And she wrote in the devil's book... Probably in a red pen and in the light of a black candle, lol. A book that lives outside it's own time.
Flanders! You're the Devil?
She got bit by a damn tick!
"Say it loud, say it proud. The lie is dead, Hollywood was always red" - Razörfist, Hollywood was always red: a rant
struves class??
@loreleis.8075
3 жыл бұрын
Yup
God is love, God is good and He will protect his children Dont let DEMOCRATS sons of SATAN corrupt our childs on the INTERNET
@stephenwright8824
2 жыл бұрын
Don't let REPUBLICANS counterfeit sons of GOD corrupt our alleged adults (really tweeners masquerading in adult bodies) from knowing the correct plural form of _child_ is _children,_
@loveSIX5
Жыл бұрын
Is this satire?
@harlequinsforlife
9 ай бұрын
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