Warm-up 8/12

A. Identify the rhetorical device. (write out sentence & term)

• "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish

together as fools."(Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St.

Louis, 1964)

B. Analyze the main idea of the sentence and HOW the device helps convey that idea.

Today’s agenda

• Introduction to The Crucible and Act 1

• Homework: finish Act 1, pictures on Wed/Thurs

What do you know about…

• Puritans?

• The Salem Witch Trials?

• McCarthyism?

• Arthur Miller?

• Create a four column chart on a piece of paper- one column for each topic.

• Brainstorm for 4 minutes. Then gather info from your classmates.

Here’s what I want you to know:

• Puritans: God has absolute power, negative circumstances were attributed to Satan, religion was the absolute center of life. Music, dancing, holidays, and even toys were forbidden. Belief in witchcraft was widespread; England’s King James I, who reigned from 1603-1625,published a book witchcraft, Demononlogy. Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606) was written to please the king and included three witches: “Double, double, toil and trouble…”

Basics you should know…

• Salem witch trials: 1692, 19 people were hanged (not hung) and one was pressed to death. Four more (?) of the accused died in prison.

• The McCarthy trials have many parallels to the Salem Witch Trials.

• Arthur Miller was himself questioned by McCarthy.

• The play is considered an allegory for McCarthyism and the actions of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, LEADER OF THEACCUSERS. In the film, she is portrayed as a lustful, jealous young woman. In reality, she was 11 during the time of the actual trials.

JOHN PROCTOR-One of the few males accused. In the film, he had an extra-marital affairWith Abigail Williams. In reality, he was about 60 during the trials and there is no evidence of an affair between the two.

ELIZABETH PROCTOR-John Proctor’s wife. She is a good, pious, Puritan.

TITUBA, PARRIS’ SLAVE FROM BARBADOS. One of the first to confess.

REVEREND PARRIS,SALEM’S SPIRITUALLEADER. His daughter, Betty Parris, is the first to come down with the mysterious illness.

REVEREND HALE,EXPERT IN ALL MATTERS TOUCHINGON WITCHCRAFT.

JUDGE DANFORTH, WHO DECIDES THE FATE OF THE ACCUSED

THE YOUNG GIRLS WHO TESTIFY AGAINST THEIR NEIGHBORS