Miller's chilling classic of collective paranoia and retribution,
widely interpreted as a critique of Hoover's hysterical hunt for
Communists in post-war America. In 1692, the forces of revenge and
superstition envelop the town of Salem, Massachusetts, and
eventually even the most upstanding and innocent of townspeople are
forced to confess to witchcraft and denounce one another to save
their own lives, as the hysterical fantasies of a group of young
girls run wildly out of control. (Kirkus UK)
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.
A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.
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