The Crucible
by Arthur Miller · first published 1953
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The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
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Here's some reading for you, Mr / Ms Perfect. http://www.amazon.com/The-Crucible-Arthur-Miller/dp/01424373...
on “Sexism in Tech. Or: CloudMine pulls its sponsorship of API Jam.” ↗…some 13 year old liberals on Tumblr started this shit. Suggested Reading: Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, by Sean Hannity The Crucible, by Arthur Miller Literally any post on Breitbart, ever.
on “Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveillance technology” ↗…literature so frequently uses a setting that was already archaic to its readership, to depict that readership's contemporary politics. Literature isn't exclusively escapism. For example, Arthur Miller's The Crucible is about the 17th-century Salem witch trials, but it was written to respond to the McCarthy trials of 1950s America.
on “Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable” ↗…skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating it as a joke. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. "I am glad that I managed to write 'The Crucible,'" Arthur Miller wrote, "but looking back I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what the situation deserved."
on “Fork My Dongle” ↗…you have to just support the person making the claim or not. (Not to get on a soapbox but the theatre prof joking “I’m thinking, Oh, God! I’m cast in one of my least favorite plays of all time, ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller!” gets to another issue I have. People don’t seem understand that the tools they use to oppose others should be applied with proportionality and good judgement, if for no other reason…
on “The New Activism of Campus Life” ↗…obtuseness/offense seeking, or if people are genuinely unfamiliar with the history of the term "witch hunt", but either way this is getting rather tiring. ^ The most prominent example of this is Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
on “Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit” ↗This piece was written by Arthur Miller[1], the famous playwright who wrote "Death of a Salesman", "The Crucible", etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller
on “American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)” ↗…exists and that people consort with him, but I assume most folks on Hacker News are part of the modern world and reject supernatural explanations for events. Possibly apocryphal, but I recall in The Crucible (1952), by Arthur Miller, one accusation is that a woman peed on the edge of a farmers field, and that peeing was a signal to the Devil, and a few months later the farmer's crop was destroyed by flood.…
on “People with night-time chronotype more likely to be narcissists and psychopaths [pdf]” ↗…doubted That the executive branch in the late '40s and 1950s was "full of treasonous pro-Soviet intellectuals", in Arthur Miller's phrase, was very much doubted. He, of course, was the author of "The Crucible" which is a depiction of the Salem witch trials and was an explicit allegory of McCarthyism as a witch hunt. At least that's what I was taught growing up. The distinguishing attribute of a witch hunt…
on “Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods” ↗Remember Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" from secondary school? [0] Fundamentally these coordinated social media attacks are witch hunts. When the 'good feminists' viciously attacked Margret Atwood accusing her of being a 'bad feminist' as…
on “Don't let social media think for you” ↗Witch hunt is a great word. When I watched a CNN clip of one woman giving evidence about her "broken" Lexus I felt a very strong analogue to Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
on “The Toyota Witch Hunt” ↗…skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating it as a joke. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. "I am glad that I managed to write 'The Crucible,'" Arthur Miller wrote, "but looking back I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what the situation deserved." http://paulgraham.com/say.html
on “Angry Birds On Android Projected To Generate $1 Million Per Month In Advertising” ↗I cannot tell if you are being serious or sarcastic, but in either case, and with all due respect^, fuck off with this bullshit. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play about a literal witch hunt, as an allegory for McCarthyism. Do you think that he thought that blacklisting actors was literally as bad as crushing somebody to death with stones over several days?…
on “What I Didn't Say” ↗I wonder how exposure to Arthur Miller's The Crucible affects opinion on these types of accusations?
on “Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers” ↗“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!” ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
on “Opinion: Case for removing master-slave terminology from music production tools” ↗