The Red Scare

The Red Scare

Arthur Miller and the Red Scare

Correlation?

What do you notice about Danforth’s questioning strategy? Act III (p. 77) What do you notice about Danforth’s questioning strategy?

Act III: Check for Understanding Questions How was Francis Nurse responsible for the arrest of 91 people? (p. 87) Why is Giles Corey is arrested? (89-90) How do both of these events relate to the Red Scare?

Act III (p. 79) Based on this passage, how may we characterize Giles Corey (as well as the court)?

Based on this passage, how may we characterize the court? Act III (p. 80) Based on this passage, how may we characterize the court?

Based on this passage, how may we characterize the court? Act III (p. 82) [….] Based on this passage, how may we characterize the court?

What does John say about Elizabeth? Act III (p. 85) What does John say about Elizabeth?

Act III: Hale vs Danforth

Power Struggle (p 96- 105 ) PROCTOR! THE COURT! ABBY! It wasn’t Elizabeth’s poppet. “There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it!” Abby laughed in church. She also danced in the woods. (Hale concurs.) THE COURT! Mary Warren cannot faint.  ABBY! “Child, I do not mistrust you –” // “Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Think you to be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn your wit? Beware of it! There is –” (Then, yellow bird situation) “How do you call Heaven! Whore! Whore!” “In the proper place – where my beasts are bedded.” “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave.” Elizabeth lies to save her husband.

Poor Hale! (105)

Power Struggle (p 106 –111 ) HALE! ABBY! MARY! THE COURT! (last slide) Yellow bird sitch MARY! Noooooo!!!! Marryyyy!!!! THE COURT! Proctor goes insane. // Hale is so done.

“Tragedy of the Common Man” by Arthur Miller “In the sense of having been initiated by the hero himself, the tale always reveals what has been called his "tragic flaw," a failing that is not peculiar to grand or elevated characters. Nor is it necessarily a weakness. The flaw, or crack in the characters, is really nothing-and need be nothing, but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status. Only the passive, only those who accept their lot without active retaliation, are "flawless." Most of us are in that category.” “It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.”

John Proctor = Tragic Hero? Question: (specific to a point in the text ORRR connects to today) Quotes that support