Go To Jail.

[elfundeb2]

Tim Regan wrote:
 
> Right. "The Crucible" is a play that Arthur Miller published in 
> 1953. It describes the witch trials of Salem Massachusetts in 1692, 
> which Miller uses as a metaphor for the McCarthy trials. What made 
> me think of the play is that it shows how innocent people can be 
> found guilty of crimes they did not commit. In the play Abigail 
> Williams (and other young women from the town) accuse Elizabeth 
> Proctor (and others) of witchcraft. 

Others including John Proctor.

Elizabeth escapes hanging 
> because she's pregnant but her husband John is hung. 

"Aye, but [they] touched" (Abigail and John, that is, making it very 
much like the Kobe Bryant example).

"Aye, but [they] did not" (or so claimed the guilt-wracked John).  
Nor did Abigail need to reveal the details, or even the fact, of the 
touching in order to convict John of witchcraft, which makes this 
very different from Cindy's example.  And also unlike the Kobe Bryant 
case, it's a study of John's guilt.

> 
> There's a film version which Miller wrote the screenplay for with 
> Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder playing the leads in (I haven't 
> seen this version though).

I've seen theatrical productions of The Crucible, as well as read it 
several times, and I always find it very powerful.  I've never seen 
the film, though, which IIRC got vey mixed reviews.

Debbie
who'll lend Cindy her copy of The Crucible in exchange for the 
DaVinci Code, now that she's been informed that she'll be shunned at 
cocktail parties unless she reads what everyone else is reading ;-)