Liberal professors? That crap oozed down into the high schools. My American Lit class was nothing but propaganda.
Not exactly a surprise.
The Crucible, of course, is NOT his best play. It is a good play - especially taken at face value - but it is not his best. That is reserved for Death of a Salesman. My father, a rock-ribbed Republican who grew up under terrible circumstances during the Depression, cried when he saw the original B’way production. It is odd that so many of our most talented people are drawn to the evils of communism. I’ll never understand it.
Of course, I’ve known Miller was a commie for 40 years. That said, I would often see him on 2nd Avenue trying to get a cab. He always wore his trademark safari jacket, lol.
Didn’t he write “Death of a Salesman?” I had to read that in HS English. What a waste of ink. By the second chapter I wanted the main character to die just so he would shut up.
When the Soviet Union reached a state of collapse and their archives were opened for perusal, one pertinent fact emerged: JOE MC CARTHY was RIGHT!
Hey, it was settled science, like AGW!
Alger Hiss comes very quickly to mind...as does one of FDR's VPs (can't recall which one...not Truman).
I read “The Crucible” in my college freshman English class in the 1960’s, but I can't recall if the McCarthy and Rosenberg connections were heavily emphasized or not.
I do recall that my well known freshman chemistry professor wore an anti-Vietnam War “Peace Symbol” pinned to his suit coat each day, which was a fairly scandalous and brave act at my fairly Conservative southern university.
In the 1970’s, I saw “All My Sons” performed in Fort Lauderdale with Jack Klugman in the lead role. Since I come from five generations of American small business owners, I found a play about the habitual corruption of business owners to be, well, tendentious and irritating.
The greatest impact that Arthur Miller had on my then adolescent generation was his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Complete shock is the only way I can describe the reaction of my male friends when America's greatest female sex symbol married an ugly old man. That shock was soon eclipsed when Jackie Kennedy married the grotesque Aristotle Onassis.
Did Miller ever write a play about beautiful women who marry gross old men?
At this stage in my life, I could use some good literary advice on that subject!
Destruction of the family. That is the image of Arthur Miller’s agenda in the minds of most Americans...both those who like and those who don’t like him.
“The Crucible”. Used by the left to indoctrinate school children for the past 40 plus years.
Interesting.
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I had to read The Crucible in high school. I remember being bored by it and skimming through it at just enough depth to write a passable book report. Probably got a B- or something.
Upshot of the article is that Miller was a communist and a liar, as expected.
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