$6.01
This play is an allegory for McCarthyism, providing an educational tool for understanding mass hysteria, persecution, and American history.
Based on historical people and real events, Miller’s classic play about the witch hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror which Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “witch-hunts” in the U.S. Reissue.
| Weight | 0.163 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 13.1 × 1.4 × 19.6 in |
$10.78
This classic play serves as a key text for studying American literature, history, and the themes of mass hysteria and persecution.
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 McCarthyism which gripped America 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.
| Weight | 0.11 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.9 × 0.9 in |
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