EAN: 9780141182551

ARTHUR MILLER - GEBRAUCHT THE CRUCIBLE A PLAY I...

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.

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