Like I'm pretty sure the conclusion I had was "oh haha I see your point mr. Vonnegut, too much equality can indeed be a bad thing!"
And I definitely don't remember my teacher suggesting anything about it being viewable as satire of red scare paranoia either
The Crucible was written in 1953 as a criticism of McCarthyism. It is definitely not about Puritans being cool and good. My source is covering it in AP English. I played Ann Putnam. It sounds like you had a really shitty class.
I've heard from several people that US schools teach The Crucible with all references to McCarthyism removed, so that it's ONLY about the Salem trials.
Reading it without context, you may not really know that it's allegorical.
What I meant was, as the wiki article mentions, that some versions of the play remove the narrator at the beginning of acts 1 and 2 that explicitly compare the witch trials to fears of Communism.
I forgot that was even in there. It's been a decade since reading it. I mostly remember doing a wicked witch of the west voice for my character
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Yeah, it's using an analogy to criticize red scare paranoia by comparing it to witchcraft hysteria. Although our teacher told us it was an example of how efficient Puritan courts were and also how close and strong their community bonds were
What the fuck
The teacher explained it as an exploration into Puritan community standards and their legal system. She would praise how close knit the community was and would make a point every time a character knew intimate details about another, essentially saying Puritans had a superior social structure, since they were all familiar with one another. She also would praise how the court system called so many witnesses. Half of the people in my hometown become klansmen by the way
Wow, that's some serious point missing.