Crucible Act I Quiz

1. The characterization of Mrs. Putnam in the first act of the play is relevant to some events that happened in the twenty-first century. In the first act Mrs. Putnam was quick to blame the chlildren's illnesses on witchcraft with no evidence that proved it. One event truely relevant to this would be the president's decision (George W. Bush) to send troops to the middle east for the search of weapons of mass destruction. The only thing was there was no evidence that proved there was weapons of mass destruction in the middle east and it seems the president is sending or own men and women over there because of what happened on 9/11. One other event that is revelant would be how citizens our making quick judgements on Obama. They are saying they would not be good leaders for this country because of non-experience. The thing with that is Obama has not had a chance to lead a country and how could people make that decision with no proof? It goes to show that many people have opinions but have nothing to support those opinions.

2. During the first act of the play Parris's daughter Betty has become ill and when someone mentions the idea that the illness is due to witchcraft it spreads throughout Salem and now people begin to have doubts for Reverend Parris because the devil has entered his home. Now Reverend Parris is struggling to keep his good name in the village. The presidential race is relevant to what Reverend Parris was doing. Now coming close to the end, Obama and McCain are now trying to explain why they voted for certain bills or why they voted to raise certain taxes and so forth. Another event would be how SNL was beginning to drop in their viewer ratings but now with the presidential race they have been using this and trying to bring up their viewer ratings. Most people want to keep their good names in the community or world and will do anything at any cost to keep it.