The Crucible

[Valkyrie]

Has anyone else ever seen this play? My high school put in on last night, and it gave me the creeps. It's about the Salem Witch Trials, for those of you who don't know. It actually made me really angry, because the stupid Puritans didn't have the FAINTEST idea what a witch was!!! They kept talking about conjuring the devil and dancing with the devil and throwing live frogs into bubbling cauldrons and cursing people. Grrrr...
Okay, calm again. Has anyone ever seen this besides me?

[Rævyn Cigány]

I saw the Crucible as a play in 1989 and then the movie starring Winona Ryder and was it Jeremy Irons? No no no no no....ack! My brains not working today! Um...train of thought.....Qui Gon Jin...*sigh* okay, brain, take a rest...I'll think of it....aha! Liam Neeson! That's the one! Okayyyyyy....now that I'm on the right track again...back to the topic at hand.

I agree that the whole idea about the Salem Witch trials was not only scary, but utter stupidity. Any Puritan man (or woman, for that matter) who gave into his innate carnal lust tried to cover it up by saying he was "bewitched". You'll have to forgive me if this sounds bad, but there were quite a few people that were burned that WERE witches! But in "OUR" sense of the word witch, NOT theirs! They were simply Goddess-loving, tree hugging, once-in-a-blue-moon-spell-casting types and because the Puritans took the bible for the "be-all and end-all" of everything, women and men were burned alive, stoned to death, homes destroyed....grrr~ I could go on and on but I just might get beligerent and you don't want to see me like that! :D

Thanking the Goddess every day for the freedom to BE!

Rae )0(

[Amethyst Rose]

I didn't see the play... I read it instead. That was a few years ago though and unfortunately I don't remember too well what my reaction was. Way back when though, real witches weren't like they are today....and it CERTIANLY wasn't known by the general public what a real witch was and did :).

[loopy]

I read the play a few years back (it was a school project) and saw the Wynona Rider movie adaptation soon after. Well done movie, I might add. I really liked how they depicted the hysteria and the utter nonsense of those evil Puritans and their ignorant old ways. :mad: I'll stop here or I'll start to rant. :)


Thanking the Goddess every day for the freedom to BE!

Rae )0(

Hear hear sister!