Arthur Miller :The Crucible: Threats

Playwright Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 -- February 10, 2005) was born in Harlem, New York City. He earned a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1938. His pays included All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, After the Fall, and The Price. He wrote the screenplays for several of those plays plus the script for the movie, The Misfits, starring his one-time wife, Marilyn Monroe. He won Tony and Emmy awards and the Pulitzer Prize. Arthur Miller was interviewed by Mike Wood on February 6, 1995 in New York. The interview segments are courtesy of the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas.

[@SamtheSadman]

Wise guy. Really interesting to learn about these parallels in history.

[@user-gk1xm4nj4r]

Great consideration. Thank you.

[@Orf]

3:40 There was no way to gather opposition to this lunacy, without being incriminated

[@sairakiran2685]

great author, great work, crucible,,,

[@timwhite794]

Great resource. Thanks

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

3:44 “The point was there was no way to gather a position to this lunacy without being incriminated. So it’s a circular logic, you see.” This is the dna of the whole thing.

[@XGenerationsGMs]

thanks

[@rishabhrockstar5739]

All my Sons is one of the Finest Plays which i have read of him , it was not just a Social Play that gives a great message but also it was Well written with Suspense..

[@timothyroscoe4920]

I agree 100%--and that this is super important because audiences just plain do not want or deserve to be lectured to. Audiencdes want a gripping story--and that's what they're paying for--to be transported and transfixed. I think you put it well that the brilliance of All my Sons is in how deftly Miller weaves relevant message into the story--almost invisibly. I know the Crucible is a bit more heavy handed in this regard with the message more obvious, but to me, it's still a compelling story.

[@alyzu4755]

My favorite play of his, and one of my favorites of all time.

[@wanderingpots]

I read this play at school and went to see the play. It always interested me how systemically a persecution could take place. Since then I have read some Silvia Federico, explaining that the witch trials are the first training of the female body for Capitalist consumption, ie : the female body is to be used as a producer of Labour, people for Capitalism, if they don’t comply they will be burnt etc as a witch.

[@beelzebubcrumpethorn]

I feel like my username would be highly frowned upon in the 1600's

[@timothyroscoe4920]

You just made me laugh out loud hah. Good one :)

[@maryellengriffith2486]

😂

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

6:43 He mentions the witchhunters trying to start up a new batch of trials DESPITE, in Miller's view, not believing in it themselves. Is this not the most evil part of the whole thing - knowing that it's not true, that it brings great harm, but it's in their interest to continue it?

[@fellowcitizen]

Indeed. Like the Clintonites trying to frame Russia for their own crimes and corporate greed #TULSI2020 #RestoreRuleOfLaw #FreeAssange

[@williampitt1537]

This is where the witchhunters are revealed as defeated in the play, where they realise they have gone too far and have reeled into utter madness with the proceedings. To save themselves, they try to either prove themselve they were right, by going to Andover, or save a life, John Proctor's.

[@kenjifuse2234]

The current attack on gender critical feminists by the Left, by the progressive Left, has echoes of the old witch-hunts, and their political allies in government, academia and high tech big biz share the same charge of being complicit - and perhaps even more culpable, as they may realize gender ideology is not in fact science but mostly quasi-mystical thinking.

[@elizabethbrown8833]

I agree. Witch Hunters were mostly into gratuitous violence for sure. Awful.🌎💔

[@Orf]

3:50 "It destroyed Salem"

[@GiovannyRios]

Book of SAÚL?

[@scudder91]

Robin diangelo strikes me as a 21st century abigail williams, the same painful question begging and tautology to her logic, the same shifting of the burden of proof, the same unctuous , self righteousness in accusing others.

[@denisemorton56]

And so it goes. Stay safe, wear a mask, get your vaccine.

[@montanagal6958]

no questions allowed

[@filmlover123]

You're being ironic OF COURSE

[@jmwSeattle]

There isn’t that much to be gained by trying to understand unGodly behavior. Bumped out at 4:46

[@rustydog1236]

You'd have been a judge and condemned the witches to h*ng?