The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Summary: If I could, I would give this more than five stars!
Review: This is the most amazing play I have ever read and I cried and almost collapsed with joy when I found out that my school was going to be performing this play this fall. As an aspiring actor, I strongly urge anyone who's interested in great dramatic literature to read Arthur Miller's "The Crucible." It deserves a lot more recognition and appraisal than his "other famous play" "Death of a Salesman" (personally, the most boring play I've ever read)

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Summary: It was an okay book
Review: This was a required reading book for me in the 8th grade. I really like the different issues this book had to offer, right vs wrong, moral vs legality, it really incorporated these ideas well. I would have not read it if it wasn't a required reading, it didn't have something to grasp on to.

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Summary: This is a profound example of excellent literature
Review: This was an excellent play! The characters' lives were intricately woven with each other without a huge mess. A pleasure to read, but slightly disturbing, too. This is a masterpiece of it's genre, and anyone who says it is boring or hard to follow shouldn't be reading it in the first place. If you want an involving, deep, intellectual book, this is one you should definitely consider!

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Summary: Ok Book
Review: It was an ok book. Some parts were interesting, but some parts were left to be desired. It was a bit complicated too, too many characters, kind of hard to follow along. But other than that, it was pretty good.

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Summary: Engrossing...
Review: Being very intrested in the Salem witch trials, I investigated "The Cruciable" and found it to be a work which I could not stop reading! It is highly user friendly for those of us who might not be history buffs, yet want to understand events which took place. Also, I found it to be a quick, engrossing, and an easy read. However, I on the other hand, decided to take it a step further, and buy another book called, "Salem Possessed," which really goes to the very heart of the matter which spawned such hysteria in Salem Village.

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Summary: this was a bad bad book
Review: This was a very very bad bad boo

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Summary: the movie was grest and i enjoed it.
Review: the crucible was very intersting. abigail is quite an interesting charaacter.

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Summary: Beware the witch, she may not be so far from you.
Review: Miller wrote an excellent play. Plain and simple: every man and woman on the planet should read this fictional rendition of the Salem witch trials. The play explorers transgression and the resurgence of renewal and redeption. Proving all the while that the hysteria is driven solely by human nature. A nature which exists today, and is still very capable of causing death due to misinformation. Buy a copy and read it. Very short but packed with moving testimony of the hell in the Colony of Massachusetts

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Summary: Loved It, but also hated it
Review: I loved this book but it also upset me to see how one little lie can cause so much pain. I wanted to kill Wynona in the movie but I also liked it.

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Summary: A good book that shows how stupid McCarthyism actually was.
Review: The Crucible is an interesting book about the Salem Witch Trials. It is very obvious from the readers point of view, what is happening and how everything could be stopped.Unfortunately, because the characters only want to save themselves, the truth becomes lies and lies become truth. Everyone has a choice of saving themselves and condemning others or standing up for the truth, condemning themselves, and stopping the cycle. Strangely, the "perfect" people of the town all lie. Arthur Miller wrote the play during The McCarthy Trials. In his book it is quite obvious how stupid the whole thing really is and the book has almost a direct parallel to the Mc Carthy trials, yet no one thought their was any problem with the trials. The book was a very interesting way to show the people what was really happening.