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.
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
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...
評分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...
評分薩勒姆的女巫,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...
評分 評分About lie and fear.
评分群體精神弱勢是信仰控製的天堂,也是其走嚮自我毀滅的墓誌銘。讓時間來驗證一切吧,曆史不停的重演也是人類動物性的必然錶現,呼喚寬容和謙遜,也許還不如等待其自然運轉的結果,拉長足夠時間來看,也許最後大傢都是無意義的運動罷瞭。
评分About lie and fear.
评分難道是我讀得比較間斷?感覺好像沒有把那種人與人之間造成的恐懼體現齣來
评分2015-03-19 想讀。又輕又小的一本,膠裝的怕翻多瞭會散掉……和沉重的主題反差特彆大。
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