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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141182551Number of pages: 144Weight: 112 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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