Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.
A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.
Product details
- Paperback | 144 pages
- 129 x 198 x 8mm | 112g
- 24 Feb 2000
- Penguin Books Ltd
- PENGUIN CLASSICS
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Repr.
- 0141182555
- 9780141182551
- 558
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