(Rebecca Nurse’s husband wealthy, influential man).(the only surviving Putnam child has strange illness).has given birth to eight children and only one has survived).(wealthy, influential man has a grudge against Francis Nurse).Parris’s niece Proctors’ former servant) (John Proctor’s wife fired Abigail Williams).

(farmer who lives outside of Salem hates hypocrisy).

Line 2: “No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.”.

Line 1: “Mister Reverend, I do believe somebody else be witchin’ these children.”.

Line 2: “How can it be the Devil? Why would he choose my house to strike? We have all manner of licentious people in the village!”.

Line 1: “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!”.

In other words: When you tell one story to help represent what is going on with something else.

Allegory: The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

Written about US events in the 1600’s as an allegory to the US events of the 1950’s.

This was an anti-Communist crusade in the early 1950’s.

Also conducted internal screening programs on federal government employees conducted by the FBI.

McCarthy felt that the people they summoned were anti-American and that this justified the extreme, even extra-legal measures.

McCarthyism – termed after Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The biggest threat was Communist Russia.

Fear of Communism spreading in the United States.

The Crucible’s Relationship to the 1950’s

Salem witch trials were taking place because of fear and accusations.

University of Michigan (began writing plays).

Adultery is acceptable in today’s society.

Withholding the truth is the same thing as telling a lie.

People are willing to accept the consequences of their actions.

Most people have certain fundamental beliefs that they are not willing to compromise.

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