Arthur Miller’s witch-hunt classic The Crucible has too much talk and not enough passion

Arthur Miller’s witch-hunt classic The Crucible has too much talk and not enough passion

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is based on the Salem Witch Trials in late 17th-century colonial America. The community of the town in Massachusetts became engulfed in a major persecution frenzy, where young girls made wild accusations of witchcraft. People, mostly women, were asked to name names. Miller’s play was an allegory for the McCarthy crusade of the 1950s, when the US government persecuted people suspected of being communists, a witch hunt to…