witch hunt : questions (Friday May 7th)

 

Questions Text 1 (The Crucible)

 

A)    Make sure you remember the useful vocabulary to analyse a play.

How do you call the beginning of a play?

B)    Have a look at the setting: what do you already know about it?

C)   Use your own words to sum up the main ideas:  the problems, the explanations provided…

D)   What kinds of feelings pervade the scene? Justify

E)    Focus on the different characters: what do you learn about:

-        Parris? The real reasons why he is scared…

-        Abigael? Her various answers…

-        Mrs Putnam: the kind of woman she seems to be…

-        Tituba: her role in all this…

F)    Knowing it was written by Arthur Miller and first performed in 1953, can you explain its message.

 

 

Questions text 2 (The HUAC...)

 

A)    What sort of document is it?

 

B)    Use your own words to explain the link between the witch hunt and this document.

 

C)   Can you find PRECISE common points between the different pictures you studied and this document?

 

 

 

Going further

 

Find a personal document which is worth comparing with those you studied.

 

 

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