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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."… (mehr)
Gelesen als Vorbereitung auf den Film zum Stück (Yael Farber inszeniert im Old Vic mit Richard Armitage als Proctor u.a.). Hat mir gut gefallen, die Balance zwischen "Dokumentation" und fiktionalem Drama. Die politische Dimension hab ich jetzt nicht so gesehen. Allein die Entwicklung der tragischen Geschichte John und Elizabeth Proctors vor dem Hintergrund eigentlich kleiner menschlicher Verfehlungen, die sich aber unheilvoll summieren: Neid, Missgunst, enttäuschte Liebe, Auskosten erster Erfahrungen sexueller und persönlicher Macht (im Fall von Abigail). Den leisen Humor im Text habe ich übrigens erst bemerkt, als ich das Theater- (und Kino-)Publikum an besagten Stellen lachen hörte. ( )
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For Mary
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A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692.
A Note on the Historical Accuracy of This Play
This play is not history in the sense in which the word is used by the academic historian.
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PROCTOR: I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
PARRIS: There is a party in this church. I am not blind; there is a faction and a party.
PROCTOR: Against you? PUTNAM: Against him and all authority. PROCTOR: Why, then I must find it and join it.
PARRIS. Why could there not have been poppets hid where no one ever saw them? PROCTOR. There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
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ELIZABETH, supporting herself against collapse, grips the bars of the window, and with a cry: He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
The final drumroll crashes, then heightens violently. Hale weeps in frantic prayer, and the new sun is pouring in upon her face, and the drums rattle like bones in the morning air.
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."
Hat mir gut gefallen, die Balance zwischen "Dokumentation" und fiktionalem Drama.
Die politische Dimension hab ich jetzt nicht so gesehen. Allein die Entwicklung der tragischen Geschichte John und Elizabeth Proctors vor dem Hintergrund eigentlich kleiner menschlicher Verfehlungen, die sich aber unheilvoll summieren: Neid, Missgunst, enttäuschte Liebe, Auskosten erster Erfahrungen sexueller und persönlicher Macht (im Fall von Abigail).
Den leisen Humor im Text habe ich übrigens erst bemerkt, als ich das Theater- (und Kino-)Publikum an besagten Stellen lachen hörte. ( )