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

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

      • garbology [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        without context

        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.

        • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          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

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        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