The Crucible外国文学导读指南系列丛书.pdf

E D A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE PENGUIN CLASSICS EDITION OF I THE CRUCIBLE U BY ARTHUR MILLER G S ’ R E H C A E T BY LAURA REIS MAYER 2 A Teacher’s Guide to The Crucible by Arthur Miller TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 LIST OF CHARACTERS3 BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE4 WHOLE-PLAY ACTIVITIES 6 ACT ONE 7 ACT TWO 10 ACT THREE 12 ACT FOUR 15 AFTER-READING ACTIVITIES 17 WHOLE-PLAY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND WRITING TOPICS 19 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 19 ABOUT THE EDITORS 19 For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please email academic@ or write to: PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP In Canada, write to: Academic Marketing Department PENGUIN BOOKS CANADA LTD. 375 Hudson Street Academic Sales New York, NY 10014-3657 90 Eglinton Ave. East, Ste. 700 Toronto, Ontario /academic Canada M4P 2Y3 Printed in the United States of America A Teacher’s Guide to The Crucible by Arthur Miller 3 INTRODUCTION When Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953, his intent was to hold a mirror to his own society, deeply embroiled in the hysteria of the McCarthy era. The play’s setting, the 1692 Salem witch trials, echoes the same accusations, fear, and ruination characteristic of mid-cen- tury America’s Red Scare. And yet, while over sixty years have passed since the play’s opening night, its plot i