The Crucible

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theater, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was married to Marilyn Monroe.

出版者:Penguin

作者:Arthur Miller

页数:152

出版时间:2002-11-7

价格:GBP 3.03

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140481389

图书标签:戏剧美国美国文学Arthur外国文学Miller清教徒小说

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a play based on the actual events in 1692 that led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

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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...  

阿瑟·米勒 根据真实的萨勒姆女巫案改编而成，阿瑟米勒笔下的萨勒姆小镇，人人为了自保而虚构罪名，诬陷旁人，显然也是对当时美国盛行的麦卡 锡主义的暗讽。由几个女孩子引起的女巫案为什么最后演化为全镇的悲剧，涉及越来越多的无辜者，人性的意义和价值在当时的萨勒姆...  

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...  

“那不过是闹着玩罢了，叔叔！” 是的，这一切不过闹着玩罢了，萨勒姆小镇的这出“事故”本就是一群孩子有趣的玩意，可一旦有人当真，魔鬼就降临到人间。先是大人们的当真，确定了上帝敌人的痕迹，敌人“理应”成为大家的“公敌”；随后，被逼无奈的女孩们努力（其...  

刚开始看的时候感觉很匪夷所思,看不太进去... 因为学业要求一定要看 坚持读完 看到第三幕和第四幕的时候觉得心里还是挺悸动的 关于宗教类的书籍作为not religions,但还是可以引发思考人性的 是悲剧,但是很值得看的一本.  

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必读

疯狂的时期，人们都失去了理智。 仇恨，欲望，嫉妒，所有的罪恶脱离了束缚。正义被邪恶所驱使，理智被盲目所驾驭。此时此刻，仍能保持自我的人们需要多少勇气和决意。无辜的人为此付出生命的代价，而这样的疯狂，却一次又一次地在历史上出现。

炼狱

有的人選擇忠於自己的靈魂，寧願被絞死，不願向魔鬼的代言人低頭。有的人眼含著淚看著真相，為蒙冤的人扼腕歎息，卻無力挽狂瀾。那些最醜陋的人，出賣自己的靈魂的人，還苟活著。推翻邪惡的統治總要有人流血，可歌可泣。審判日終究會到來。人在做，天在看。