The Crucible A Play In Four Acts
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Shows how the small city 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 terrify...
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Shows how the small city 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. This is a depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, and more. 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.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141182551
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
144
Udgivelsesdato
24-02-2000
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1546301
EAN nr.
9780141182551
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
10
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
129
Vægt (g)
114