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4 stars.
That was a roller-coaster ride of a story, I must say.
Re-read 2018:
Still awesome.
That was a roller-coaster ride of a story, I must say.
Re-read 2018:
Still awesome.
I think The Crucible was terrifyingly prescient for our world today. It also was a brilliant work exposing the hysteria and hypocrisy and lying that seems to have been more important for shaping and establishing truth than truth itself when it was written as an allegory for McCarthyism.
When the Twilight Zone premiered in 1959, just 6 years after The Crucible went into production and 3 years after Arthur Miller himself was called before HUAC, Rod Serling wrote:
“The writer's role is to menace th ...more
When the Twilight Zone premiered in 1959, just 6 years after The Crucible went into production and 3 years after Arthur Miller himself was called before HUAC, Rod Serling wrote:
“The writer's role is to menace th ...more
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