Download or read book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 McCarthyism which gripped America 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.