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Author:	Arthur Miller	Format:	--
Publisher:	Penguin USA	ISBN-10:	0140189645
ISBN-13:	9780140189643	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
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Condition:	Good

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Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their communities and their friends. Miller explores the handy scapegoat that an accusation of witchcraft can be: a father can dismiss his daughter's behavior, a landowner can acquire still more land, a serving girl can attract attention to herself, and emotions can be displaced onto other people. Miller fully explores the power of an accusing figure.
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Series:	Twentieth-Century Classics

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Length:	143 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	5.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence".
Industry reviews
"'The Crucible' dramatizes brilliantly the dilemma of an innocent man who must confess falsely if he wants to live and who finally gains the courage to insist on his innocence and hang." New England Quarterly - David Levin (12/19/1955) "'The Crucible' has endured beyond the immediate events of its own time. If it was originally seen as a political allegory, it is presently seen by contemporary audiences almost entirely as a distinguished American play by an equally distinguished American playwright." Robert A. Martin (09/19/1977)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0140189645
Title : The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Authors : Arthur Miller
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication Date : 1995-10-01
Pages : 176
List Price (MSRP) : 10.00
Height : 0.5500 inches
Width : 5.1400 inches
Length : 7.7200 inches
Weight : 0.3100 pounds
Keywords : United States, General, Classics, Miller, Arthur, Look Inside Art Books, Look Inside Entertainment Books, Look Inside Fiction Books
Condition : Good
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