The Crucible - A Play in Four Acts
Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2000 |
Seiten | 144 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 0,7 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 118 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0141182555 |
EAN | 9780141182551 |
Bestell-Nr | 14118255EA |
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.