Crucible Notes

Question 1

Foil

Answer 1

a character whose personality and attitude is the opposite of another character

since the characters contrast it makes them stand out

Question 2

Foil characters

Answer 2

Proctor and Parris
Elizabeth and Abigail
Ann (Mrs. Putnam) and Rebecca

Question 3

Flat Characters

Answer 3

only one or two sides of personality

can sum up in 1 or 2 sentences

lacks surprises or complexity

Question 4

Examples of flat characters

Answer 4

abigail, putnam, danforth

Question 5

Round characters

Answer 5

a life-like 3D character

believable enough to have actually lived

Question 6

Examples of round characters

Answer 6

Hale, proctor, Elizabeth

maybe Parris

Question 7

Dynamic character

Answer 7

fundamentally changes his or her personality or view by the end of the story

Question 8

Examples of dynamic characters

Answer 8

Hale, Elizabeth

Question 9

Static characters

Answer 9

remains the same throughout a narrative

does not develop or change beyond the way they were first presented

Putnam, Abigail, Danforth

Question 10

Theme of Crucible

Answer 10

better to die with self respect and integrity than to give into hypocritical society

Question 11

External conflict of crucible

Answer 11

Man vs. Society

Proctor vs. puritan community

Question 12

Internal Conflict

Answer 12

man vs. himself

lie and live or tell truth and die

religious problem

Question 13

Allusion

Answer 13

a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature

often indirect references to famous characters or events

Question 14

Allusions in the Crucible

Answer 14

Cain and Abel (referenced by Proctor)

Raphael the Angel

Question 15

Denontation

Answer 15

dictionary definition of a word

Question 16

Connotation

Answer 16

feelings/ideas that go along with a word

witch-hunt: mass hysteria

Question 17

Dramatic irony

Answer 17

reader has a greater knowledge than the characters themselves

Question 18

Examples of dramatic irony in the Crucible

Answer 18

Elizabeth saying John and Abigail didn’t have an affair

Watching the girls actions in court because the audience knows they are faking

Question 19

Allegory

Answer 19

any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning

extended metaphor

characters, events represent things on a literal and symbolic level

Question 20

Allegory of the crucible

Answer 20

McCarthy trials

Question 21

Who started McCarythism

Answer 21

Joe McCarthy

Question 22

Joe McCarthy

Answer 22

started McCarthyism

republican senator from Wisconsin

1950-54

Question 23

Red Scare

Answer 23

helped bring about the McCarthy hearings

people were as scared as being accused of communists as they were of being witches

Question 24

Arthur Miller

Answer 24

author of the Crucible

accused of being a communist in Red Scare

Question 25

What was going on in the 1950s?

Answer 25

Cold War Korean War USSE vs. USA Communism vs. Democracy

Question 26

When did Mcarthyism begin?

Answer 26

McCarthy announced there were communists working for the State Department and the Secretary of State knew about it at this point no communists were found

Question 27

What allowed McCarthyism to happen?

Answer 27

Country was afraid of communists Gearing up for Korean war

Question 28

House of Un-American Activities Committee 3 goals

Answer 28

To prove that communists had heavily infiltrated the Screen Writers' Guild To show that these writers were able to insert subversive Communist proganda into films To show that Hollywood had intentionally produced pro-Soviet films during WWII

Question 29

The Hollywood Ten

Answer 29

accused of having been Communists in 30s and 40s Nine screenwriters and one director

Question 30

What did the Hollywood Ten do in courth

Answer 30

Pleaded the 5th to remain silent Right against self-incrimination

Question 31

Could hollywood 10 use 5th amendment?

Answer 31

Only applies to judicial hearings This was a legislative hearing

Question 32

Hollywood 10 sentence

Answer 32

Served between 6 months and 10 years in prison

Question 33

Hollywood 10 choices of what to do

Answer 33

1) Claim they had never been members of the Communist Party (commit perjury) 2) Admit to being Communists and name names but also lose jobs 3) Remain silent and loss their jobs (they did this)

Question 34

Hollywood Blacklist

Answer 34

hollywood studio bosses said they would not hire any communists

Question 35

Blacklist

Answer 35

list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment because of untrustworthiness or for holding opinions considered undesirable

Question 36

The second phase of McCarthyism

Answer 36

HUAC composed list of 324 suspected members of the Communist Party Given no due-process rights (trial by jury, etc) Lost jobs for being Communist