[ SECRET POST #1773 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1773 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 055 secrets from Secret Submission Post #253.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

25. http://i.imgur.com/3vHwX.jpg

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Feel like elaborating? Classic theatre discussion is entertaining.

[justaminuet.livejournal.com]

Wow. A Crucible secret. But like the above poster said, I am curious as to the why. I personally found the play to be interesting, but I never could make myself feel much sympathy for John.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this way about practically every character in The Crucible. I enjoyed the story, but so many times I felt like yelling "FFS! Use some common sense, discuss things with each other, and everyone will get out of this alive!"

It depressed me to find out this was based on the rl Salem witch trials. I thought it was a loose interpretation, but discovering that this is pretty much what actually happened really depressed me. I hope the real people weren't this stupid in real life.

[justaminuet.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that a lot of them were. Also, most of the deaths stemmed from just how much jealously there was around the place, and how easy it was to scream witch at people you didn't like. It made the worst in people come out through power trips, and was just an ugly mess from beginning to end.

Though, I will say the witch hunts in Europe, particularly some parts of Germany (where whole villages were massacred) make Salem look like a good time.

[childings.livejournal.com]

LOL stay away from American History in general, then

[hopeandmemory.livejournal.com]

my major first-year seminar in college was on witchcraft in colonial america (and studying its roots in the persecution of "witches" in continental europe and england), and we had to read the crucible the summer before school started. if i recall correctly, the events mimic real life pretty closely. (and there's also the parallel to the mccarthy red scare to consider, too.) all in all, it's a pretty depressing play.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Late comment I know, but that sounds like an awesome class

[hopeandmemory.livejournal.com]

it totally could have been, but the professor was SO BORING OMFG. i went to college in hartford, CT, which has a lot of witchcraft history, but we never took any field trips (dude, we could've gone to salem, it's not that far from hartford) or did anything remotely fun. he just lectured at us. it sucked. :(

[whitepawn-alice.livejournal.com]

Ugh this fucking play. We had to do scenes from it in grade 10 drama and it was painful. I've held a grudge against it ever since

[casual-fan.livejournal.com]

So, go commiserate with all the high schoolers who hate being forced to read it?

[dark-branwen.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? It's one of my favorites. Normally the characters would drive me up the wall for how stupid their fighting/accusing is, but considering it's realistic in both historical contexts (Red Scare and Salem Witch Hunt), I can deal with the stupid and just enjoy it.

Though it is slightly influenced by the fact that I played Abigail opposite my biggest high school crush EVAR as John and I got to grope him shamelessly. Highlight of my sophomore year.

Anyway, I agree with those who would love to hear more about why you dislike it. :D

[childings.livejournal.com]

This is actually one of the FEW things I had to read my junior year of high school that I enjoyed. I've enjoyed everything I read by Arthur Miller, actually.

[kitkat1327.livejournal.com]

Same here! It was one of the rare assigned things I actually had an interest in reading back in high school.

[(Anonymous)]

I have such a love-hate relationship with this play. I never really liked it much (though I don't generally mind Miller's work), but we did it for drama my senior year for the fall play, and it grew on me. I was cast as Tituba (it was the part I wanted, but it was still somewhat amusing as I was the darkest-skinned of all the drama kids that year), and I look back on it with some fondness.

[xenoglossy]

I know what you mean -- not about the Crucible specifically, which I've never done, but I always end up thinking fondly of plays I've been in, even if I wasn't crazy about the material going in.

[(Anonymous)]

You and about 95% of people who have been through a literature class in a US high school.

[kryptoncat.livejournal.com]

I got so into the movie I yelled out "No!" in class when the wife told the lie that led to her husband's death sentence; they just dragged the whole thing out even though everyone knew the ending was inevitable!

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way about Death of a Salesman (and Waiting for Godot, for that matter) and I have a degree in theater.

I do love The Crucible, though.

[cure-light.livejournal.com]

I think Crucible and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were the only two school books I loved. Or even liked, for that matter.

[shallnotfalter.livejournal.com]

Did someone just forget to explain the context in which Arthur Miller wrote it? You know, McCarthyism and the "Red Scare" and all that from the 1950s in America?

....Anyone?

[solira21.livejournal.com]

This. Although it makes sense within its own context, the play is much more valuable and interesting when you consider why he wrote it. The insanity and awfulness of some of the characters is fascinating if you think of them as red scare communist haters, not Puritan witch hunters.