The Crucible Guided Viewing Questions KEY Who are Reverend Parris‚ Betty‚ and Abigail? What is their relationship? Rev. Parris is the minister of Salem‚ Betty is his daughter‚ and Abigail is his niece. Who is Tituba? What is her relationship to the family? Tituba is the Parris’s slave from Barbados. What is wrong with Betty? Betty is unconscious after being caught by her father dancing in the woods with other girls from Salem. Why does Parris suggest calling in Reverend
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The Crucible Discussion Questions ACT ONE 1.) The irony in this statement is purely the fact that the very corruption that the church was trying to avoid is exactly what is became overcome with. The wrong and deceitful lies that the church wanted to evade became the basis for many accusations and convictions of innocent peoples. 2.) Mrs. Putnam’s 7 babies died very soon after birth except for one‚ Ruth Putnam. According to her‚ the devil (and those working with the devil) are the reasons
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The Crucible showed the injustices faced by the Salem society‚ while also showing the injustices faced by the society of the one he lived in. The Crucible has character John Proctor who is a aware of the unlawful accusations of witchcraft. John Proctor has a very close friend‚ Giles Corey who is very against the accusations as his wife has been accused and he knows the only reason for the witch trials is vengeance from the town girls. Giles Corey represents Arthur Miller’s role in McCarthyism‚ the
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on October 17‚ 1915. Miller composed The Crucible in the early 1950’s and it used the Salem Witchcraft trials of 1692 as a response to the anti-communist "witch hunts" to which miller was accused of. Miller believed that the madness surrounding the witchcraft trials was similar to McCarthy’s mission to terminate communism. The Crucible is set in a government ruled by a religious authority‚ in which the church and state are one. The major theme of The Crucible is reputation because various characters
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“The Crucible‚” a play by Arthur Miller later turned into a major Hollywood movie‚ explores the politics of fear‚ social norms‚ and the fight to recapture a man’s moral compass. Miller paints his story using the small tight knit community of Salem circa 1692 as his canvass‚ brilliantly weaving historical fact and fiction to portray a scenario not unlike events seen since. The infamous witch hunts of 1692 and wild accusations of a subversive culture that threatened to tear away at the fabric of
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people of Salem‚ Massachusetts to go into mass hysteria over accusations of witchcraft‚ resulting in the accusation of over 200 and execution of 20 innocents. Through examples of biblical allusions and character development‚ Arthur Miller shows in The Crucible how fear‚ suspicion‚ and greed are infectious and have the ability to destroy society because of the hysteria and destruction that it creates. Many examples of greed are presented in the play. Many of the characters‚ mostly the young girls and
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financially. There were many difficulties with communism that affected the Red-Scare‚ and the anti-communist dealing with McCarthyism. “During the McCarthy era‚ thousands of Americans were accused of being communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels‚ committees and agencies”(McCarthyism).
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place during the 1950s in the United States was a time people was afraid of communism. Americans believed the Soviet Union going to take over the government of the United States and Americans can lose their freedom. As a result of McCarthyism Arther Miller‚ wrote The Crucible because people was falsely accused of communism like how in Salam that was accused of witchcraft. During this period‚ a climate of fear of communism existed in the United States due to certain significant events. One of these
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The motivations of The Crucible : reputation‚ jealousy‚ and guilt take part in the story as well as in McCarthyism. In McCarthyism many people were targeted and jailed for being a communist. These accusations led to people losing their jobs and to move from the United States. In The Crucible people were hung for accusations of witchcraft. Reputation is the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. In The Crucible Parris is worried about his reputation. Parris’s daughter
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