In class today: vocabulary 13 This is due next Monday 3 May
We are reading Arthur Miller's play The Crucible
Homework: Please read the introductory material on the philosophical context of the play. This is the overture to Act I, which runs through the top of page 8.
Note the following excerpts and be prepared to discuss and or write about them.
Theocracy: a combined state and religious power
"...since the country was reasonably- although not wholly- safe, the old disciplines were beginning to rankle."
"The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians."
"Their fathers had...been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their new Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas."
"We have inherited...this discipline...Their self-denial, their purposefulness, their suspicion of allvain pursuits, their hard-handed justice, were altogether perfect instrument for the conquest of this space do antagonistic to man."
...social disorder in any age breeds such mystical suspicions; ...it is too much to expect people to hold back very long from laying on the victims with all the force of their frustrations."
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