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Forums - General - The Crucible(Arthur Miller`s book) is hilarious!!

Though maybe is not meant to be funny but I have a strage sense of humour.

The first thing to highlight is that Hale is the best character simply because he lives in denial and actually thinks stuff like witchcraft is real.

Also there is an epic part at the end of act two when everybody starts accusing others of being with the devil.It should be something like"I SO GOODY something with the devil"



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The crucible is funny?

What kind of tormented individual are you?

I am starting to think that you are speaking with the devil.





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I've read Death of a Salesman, but I still need to read The Crucible.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

As someone who's done the Crucible to death at school and college over the years (as well as acted in it) I truly fail to see any amusing side of it. It's a disturbing allegory of McCarthy era communist 'witch hunts' and ends with a depressing act of self-sacrifice.



Remember, witches are metaphors for communists. Then it gets even funnier. Wait'll you get to the ending. It'll crack you up something fierce!



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I've never read the Crucible, in fact it's been a while since I've last read a book, I need to read one, possibly when I go back to the U.S.



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The Ghost of RubangB said:
Remember, witches are metaphors for communists. Then it gets even funnier. Wait'll you get to the ending. It'll crack you up something fierce!

 

*sigh*Mccarthyism wild times.



I hated that book... Along with most others I've been forced to read in high school. The Heart of Darkness and My Antonia are probably the worst though. I don't remember much about The Crucible anymore, except that I really hated Abigail.



I hated Abigail...



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