1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller written in 1953 about the Salem Witches trials of 1692
Vessel used for melting materials
A severe trial
Time when many forces in society come together
political
social
economical
intellectual

2. Summary- The theocracy of the Puritan town of Salem felt threatened by unusual happenings which they blamed on witchcraft. Witches were being identified and were being punished.
What was Massachusetts like in the colonial period?
How did people communicate then?
What was happening in the 1950s that concerned Miller?

3. McCarthyism What do you know about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy?
What do you know about the political feelings of the s?
What happens when people/communities use –
Guilt by association?
Unexamined testimony?
Judges blinded by their own biases?
The system of justice to carry out personal greed or revenge?

4. Read pp. 166-169 in the Literature Book
What things were Puritans forbidden to do?
What did they think of the wilderness?
What is the paradox that Miller wrote about on p. 168?
Exclusion and prohibition vs. individual freedoms

5. Why is it easier to carry out actions- good or bad- when part of a group?
Who takes responsibility?
American Psychological Association July 8, A bully has poor social problem-solving skills, has negative attitudes about others, negative feelings toward himself/herself, comes from a family environment of conflict.
Why do people bully?

6. The beginning
Elizabeth Parris is not responding to people. Her father is Reverend Parris who seems to be more concern about how others will see him than about his daughter’s condition.

7. Tragedy Western literary form
Evokes strong audience emotion
Presents superior noble being who demonstrates great courage and perseverance while facing & struggling against certain defeat
Grew from Greek god Dionysus’s celebrations
Dramatic presentation that arouses pity and fear in the audience

8. Tragic Hero
Person of stature/significance who is undone either by some personal flaw ( Greek = hamartia) or by the will of the gods
Often a king, prince or nobleman

9. Modern Tragedy
Conflict with social, hereditary, psychological, or environmental forces
human of nobility or high idealism in conflict
with his/her own frailty or hostile/indifferent universe

10. Real modern tragedies
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a teenage girl jumped into a river to try and save her brother from drowning. Her brother was saved but she died A dad in Connecticut shot a burglar and it was actually his son 

11. Literature Tragedies Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Of Mice and Men  and The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey

12. Tragedies in Movies Titanic Brokeback Mountain The Notebook
The English Patient
West Side Story
American Beauty 
The Perfect Storm
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Braveheart
Dead Poet’s Society

13. Defect /error of tragic hero which brings his/her downfall
Tragic Flaw
Defect /error of tragic hero which brings his/her downfall

14. Most common tragic flaw
PRIDE – excessively high opinion of one’s own worth or dignity