Find your group

1. Samantha S, Noah, Ryan2. Mary, Ben, Samantha C3. Logan, Kate, Jabil4. Andrew, Lucas, TJ5. Brad, Adam, Carolyn6. Mark, Joshua, Quintin7. Scott, Phillip, Jack8. Daja, Regan, Jacob, Sam9. Anna, Greta, Jonathan 10.Tim, Bonnie, Dani11.Erica, Madison, Lane

What conditions enable a witch hunt?

Salem Witchcraft Trials McCarthy Hearings

What is an allegory?

• A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside of the narrative itself.

• The underlying meaning has a moral, social, religious or political significance

• In the oldest type of allegories, the characters usually personify abstract qualities such as charity, happiness, greed.

• So, an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and symbolic one.

How would you withstand the fire?

What is a Crucible?• A vessel used for melting materials and

removing impurities by heating the materials to high temperatures

• A severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial.

• A time in history when great political, social, economic and cultural changes are in force, when society is seemingly being melted down and recast into a new mold.

Journal 12With the play’s title, Miller seems to draw our attention to how people respond to being under the fire of fear, hysteria, and corruption.

When I accused you of cheating, how did you think through the costs of staying true to your morals (your sense that you were innocent and I was wrong) versus protecting your reputation and your grade?

How much more pressure could you have taken before you caved? What do you think this shows about human nature – to what extent would you protect your integrity at the cost of your reputation (isn’t that a paradox?? more on that later)