{"product_id":"crucible-arthur-miller-1968","title":"The Crucible. Arthur Miller. 2015.","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters of human history’.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking as the play’s basis the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, Arthur Miller demonstrates its contemporary social relevance, drawing the parallel between this event and the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s. In this classic parable of communal hysteria Miller depicts not an indifferent society but one in which positive evil is unleashed. This takes the form of the persecution of minority groups and the interference of the state in the conscience of the individual. As a savage attack on the ills of ‘ideological intensities’ \u003cem\u003eThe Crucible \u003c\/em\u003eremains unrivalled. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the small Salem community is stirred into madness and the play reaches the violent climax, the events it describes become a timeless vision of the evils of mindless persecution. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Medium paperback\/9780141182551","offer_id":40607223152722,"sku":"68miller","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/12C13934-D1B4-4CBC-9E7A-0D4CCEE25AC6.jpg?v=1792205922","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/crucible-arthur-miller-1968","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}