Opportunity #4: Attend a performance of “The Crucible” on one of the following performance dates: Oct 10, 15, 16, or 17 at 7:30pm or the matinee performance on Sunday, Oct 18 at 2pm at the SMSU Fine Arts Theatre Note: The performance on Thurs, Oct 15, is free to all SMSU students with a valid student ID. Admission at all other performances is $10. “The Crucible” is a fictionalized account of events that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials. Salem is a small Puritan town in Massachusetts
of Michigan, was able to transform one of the most notable accounts of mass hysteria and loss of rational thought, and mold it into an elaborate and complex drama. Miller’s, The Crucible tells the story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century. Literary lenses are used to assist readers in admiring and evaluating literary works, in an overabundance of ways. When analyzing The Crucible through the historical, psychological, and archetypal lenses
Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, details a fictional account of the historic Salem witch trials of the late 1600s. In the play, a group of teenage girls are caught dancing in the forest at night, which is greatly frowned upon by the Puritan theocracy that runs Salem. After the girls return to the village two of them appear to be in witchcraft induced comas. The girls realize the power that they now hold with the whole town believing their every word. This begins the wild fury of accusations
in Salem Village, and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic, yet these trials and executions actually still took place, how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover, as they did in The Crucible, but as series of seemingly unlinked, complex events, which a paranoid and scared group of people incorrectly linked. And while there were countless other witchcraft trials, Salem trials remain
Title: Re(dis)covering the Witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Feminist Reading Author(s): Wendy Schissel Publication Details: Modern Drama 37.3 (Fall 1994): p461-473. Source: Drama Criticism. Vol. 31. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Bookmark: Bookmark this Document Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning Title Re(dis)covering the Witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Feminist Reading [(essay date fall 1994) In the following
A student’s journey through high school shapes the way that he/she views the world. In high school, students begin to learn about proper social behavior. High school students often form groups of similar interests. These factions all interact differently, some share similar ideas and some are drastically different. Nevertheless, it is important for educators to ensure that all of these groups respect each other’s opinion. Many people falsely believe that schools only serve to increase a student’s
Some pieces of literature even began to reflect in the modern day, with Miller’s The Crucible making a statement about the MccArthy Movement by using the historic witch trials of Salem. ‘It is clear indeed that historical fiction has attained a new sense of urgency.It is far from being seen as mere entertainment, it is something more: a statement about our past and the way it influences