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.
| Autorius: | Arthur Miller |
| Serija: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Leidėjas: | Penguin Books Ltd (UK) |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2000 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 126 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141182555 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182551 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Classic poetry / poems |
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