Websites and Research Questions

On your notecards, please answer the questions below and make a source card for each website.

The Crucible

Literary devices: http://summarycentral.tripod.com/thecrucible.htm

• What are two of the themes of The Crucible?



• Explain Miller's writing style.

Inaccuracies of The Crucible: http://www.17thc.us/docs/fact-fiction.shtml

• List three differences between the play and what really happened in Salem.

History Behind the Play

Witchcraft:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/witchhistory.html

• How many years separated the last execution of a "witch" in Europe from the Salem Witch Trials?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8334055.stm

• Describe the type of person who was often accused of being a witch? (demographics, personality, kinds of actions that led others to accuse them of being a witch, etc.)

Trouble in Salem: http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/salemwitchcraft.html#politics

• What political and economic reasons existed for the division between Salem Village and Salem Town?


• Why was life difficult for Parris and his family?


• Why were Betty and Abigail forbidden from playing games?

Salem Witchcraft Trials:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM

• How was Cotton Mather connected to the Salem Witchcraft Trials?


• Who were the first three people to be accused of witchcraft?


• Why was John Proctor likely accused of witchcraft?

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salemcauses.html

• List five of the suspected causes for the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
  

McCarthyism:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/

• During the 1940s and 1950s, what fears in America were used by Senator Joseph McCarthy in his "paranoid hunt?"


• What events led to the end of McCarthyism?

HUAC: http://www.moderntimes.com/huac/

• What were the committee's three purposes?

Blacklists: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-blacklist.html

• Why was Hollywood targeted during the trials?

Arthur Miller

American Masters: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/none-without-sin/56/

• What event occurred three years after The Crucible was written?