![]() ![]() ![]() He wants to hunt down the witch, but he needs some aid. His action isn’t surprising because he has lost seven newborns and his Ruth is sick. ‘There is a murderous witch among us,’ he vehemently cries out (16). He is the first character who blames unnatural causes for the illness among the children.įurthermore, he firmly believes in the existence of ‘vengeful spirits layin’ hands on these children’ (15). Thomas Putnam has a very large part in initiating the Salem witch hunt. Finally his prodigious involvement in the relentless accusations places him in the center of the spot light, making him a salient character in both the play and the indignant period of the American history. After the town terribly rejected Putnam’s brother-in-law, Bayley, Putnam’s bitterness has increased. Inheriting a handsome amount of property makes Putnam a wealthy person however, it doesn’t seem to satisfy his ambition. В A L.A.Thomas Putnam plays a major role in the Salem witch hunt in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. 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 1950’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 Miller’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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