Another point of jealousy can be inferred in act two when Francis Nurse tells Reverend Hale that Rebecca Nurse has been arrested “for the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies,” (858). Thus, causing Ann to get into a rage and start making her jealousy over the fact that he lost almost all her kids and Mrs. Goody Putnam is very upset because she believes that her daughter Ruth is under the control of a witch and Rebecca wishes to look to God for the solution. Putnam gets into a rage of jealousy over the fact that Rebecca Nurse has not lost one child or grandchild, while Ann Putnam has lost all, but one child: “But I must! You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? ” (841). During act one this hatred like envy becomes very clear when Mrs. В A L.A.One of the most clear examples of envy in The Crucible is Goody Putnam’s towards Goody Nurse. Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem.' The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss).

The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates.

In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950вЂ™s.Īudiofile Magazine review: 'At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur MillerвЂ™s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.

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