The Crucible

American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:Arthur Miller

页数:128

出版时间:2000-2-24

价格:£8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141182551

图书标签:戏剧Arthur.Miller人性Arthur_Miller美国美国文学英文原版英语

The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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.

If you enjoyed The Crucible, you might like Miller's Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'One of a handful of great plays that will both survive the twentieth century and bear witness to it'

John Peter, Sunday Times

读后感

A very intellectual book written in the Red Scare,an era featured by the public-perceived fear against the Russian Communist Uprising.While in fact telling the story of 1692 Salem Witch Hunt,Arthur Miller is actually projecting the similar unfairness and st...  

薩勒姆的女巫，又叫做煉獄，是阿瑟·米勒于1953年根據發生在美國馬塞諸塞州的獵巫案這一真實事件創作的一處四幕話劇。這起獵巫事件從1692年1月肇始，直到1957年州政府正式向受害者道歉，才算真正完結。米勒的這出戲細緻地表現了這起獵巫案件從開始到對指控行巫的無辜者的絞刑這...  

当一个排他的信仰成为官方主流价值时，往往会出现大规模集体迫害个人的事件。会有很多人利用这种狂热，将自己的报复性目的融入到集体迫害行为中。在一般条件下他们是不敢这么做的，因为个体的出格行为会非常引人注目而受到普遍谴责。而在疯狂年代，个体可以抹去自己的特征，躲...  

薩勒姆的女巫，又叫做煉獄，是阿瑟·米勒于1953年根據發生在美國馬塞諸塞州的獵巫案這一真實事件創作的一處四幕話劇。這起獵巫事件從1692年1月肇始，直到1957年州政府正式向受害者道歉，才算真正完結。米勒的這出戲細緻地表現了這起獵巫案件從開始到對指控行巫的無辜者的絞刑這...  

美国高二英语教材 电影有混乱的中字 但是没有中译本 难道是讽刺麦卡锡主义？不对啊 朋友的敌人是我们的敌人 所以应该很开心才对 还是一不小心它也隐射我们的历史？ 很期待有人去译 不嫌弃也可以合作

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