It reflects on the Salem which trials and how women were looked down upon during that era. Very much like in the 1950’s. They reflect the same from the 1950s and 1600s in which countless women were getting killed because they were thought to have been witches. 

Setting, Plot & Characters Plot  

• What parts of the play did you find most interesting?
  • I liked the scene about people blaming others for being a witch for their own personal gain while on trial
• What parts bored you?
  • I was bored when play was just beginning, as the characters had not been established yet
• How did you feel during different parts of the play?
  • I felt entertained because the actors did just enough of interacting with the audience
• What caused these feelings?
  • The cast walked through the seats and interacted with you before the show, and sometimes during the show
• Who do you like? Who do you dislike? Who does not interest you?
  • I liked john proctor because he had a lot of character development throughout the play. I disliked the judge because I felt his decisions were unjust.

2) Themes – What are the prominent ideas or concepts explored in the play?

I think the idea of people using their situation for their own personal gain was explored in-depth throughout the play.

3) Production/Design Elements - Set, Props, Costumes, Lighting, Sound

• How does each element help tell the story?
  • The props show what people are doing. The lights show us the tone, and the sound gives us context for the other elements. The costumes and set show the setting.
• How does each element tell us about the characters?
  • It helps show personality and feelings
• How does each element create a feeling, atmosphere, or emotion?
  • Each element changes the way you perceive the play and changes your viewpoint.

4) Theater and Its Double: Art Reflects Life, Life Reflected Through Art

• Are any characters like actual people today or in history? Who?
  • John proctor is similar to anyone who did something wrong but in the sacrificed themselves for the greater good
• How is this story similar to actual events that have occurred in the past or are happening in the world today? Which events?
  • It is similar to any time people were punished because of their difference from the rest of the group.

1)  Setting, Plot & Characters Plot  

• What parts of the play did you find most interesting?
• I found it interesting when in the last scene John argues that the word is enough and that they didn't need to be made fun of and all he wanted was his name
• What parts bored you?
• I didn't understand the beginning so I was board 
• How did you feel during different parts of the play?
• I felt angry when the judges took Elizabeth away 
• What caused these feelings?
• she had not done anything
• Who do you like? Giles Corey  Who do you dislike? the judge
• 2) Themes – What are the prominent ideas or concepts explored in the play? don't lie

3) Production/Design Elements - Set, Props, Costumes, Lighting, Sound

• How does each element help tell the story? lighting helps make senses more dramatic set sets the scene props can help tell the time period sound intensifies the play
• How does each element tell us about the characters?
• each climate tells a huge part about the characters 
• How does each element create a feeling, atmosphere, or emotion?
• it creates a feeling of emotion by darkness or having lots of light

4) Theater and Its Double: Art Reflects Life, Life Reflected Through Art

• How is this story similar to actual events that have occurred in the past or are happening the world today? Which events? holocaust because they are both because of religions
• Are any characters like actual people today or in history? Who?

Racial segregation/Civil Rights Movement. Within the Crucible there are characters that are being accused of things that they are not and have no control over. This is very similar to what was happening during this era (civil rights movement)

Tragic Hero:

1. The hero is in a position of power: this position is deserving- deserves the honor and respect that he gets
2. The hero has a tragic flaw- a flaw that is so big that causes mistakes, judgment, and a downfall
   1. Flaw= Hubris(excessive pride)
   2. Mistake= thinks he can change his fate
3. Hero suffers downfall but recognizes, learns and owns his mistakes

The tragic hero in "The Crucible" Is John Proctor as he is the story's protagonist but he suffers from many mistakes throughout the stories. 

One of the events in the crucible relates to the slam witch trials. One of the social issues affecting the Salem witch trials is gender inequality which is something that is still prevalent in the current day.

Stonewall riots

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Stonewall riots began in 1969 in New York City where the police raided Stonewall Inn, a gay bar/club. The raid caused a rising of riots among the people of Greenwich village. The riots lasted about 6 days and outside the bar and thought the neighborhood, the riots served as one of the catalysts for the gay rights movement. 

• In the 1960s and decades before people of the LGBT community ere not welcomed nor treated as equals, In fact, during that time soliciting same-sex relations was illegal in New York 
• Because of theses horrid restricts the LGBT community went to bars or clubs because it was a p[alce where they could openly be themselves without fear. 
• As suspected those clubs that served alcohol were penalized and shut down by the New York liquor authority
• Soon after (1966) those regulations were put to an end but it was still illegal to engage in “gay behavior” - police harassment continued especially around bars/clubs 
• The Stonewall Inn club became very popular as years past and they were considered one of the more progressive of the gay clubs because they allowed drag queens and was one of the few gay bars left that allowed dancing
• Was considered to be a home for many gay runaways and gay youth
• June 28 the police raided the bar and arrested 13 people (even some cross-dressing customers were taken into the bathroom with a female officer to check their sex(which was obviously harassment and traumatic) 
• The community was more than fed up with the discrimination and harassment they faced on a day to day basis they discoed to stay outside the bar together instead of dispersing
• They were aggressively manhandled and the topping point for the riot was when a lesbian woman was hit over the head by an officer and soon after the activists barricaded themselves in the bar
• After many times of others trying to break the barricade, the mod attempted to light it on fire
• Due to that dangerous fire, the barricade was forced to disperse but after that day protests continued around the neighborhood

-correlation to current events: marriage laws, LBGTQIA+ rights movement 

- LGBTQ rights are still being fought for to this day, it was only 2015 that gay marriage became legal in all 50 states. 

The Crucible Reflections

1)  Setting, Plot & Characters Plot  

• What parts of the play did you find most interesting? 
• What parts bored you?
• How did you feel during different parts of the play? 
• What caused these feelings?
• Who do you like? Who do you dislike? Who does not interest you?

2) Themes – What are the prominent ideas or concepts explored in the play?

3) Production/Design Elements - Set, Props, Costumes, Lighting, Sound

• How does each element help tell the story?
• How does each element tell us about the characters?
• How does each element create a feeling, atmosphere, or emotion?

4) Theater and Its Double: Art Reflects Life, Life Reflected Through Art

• How is this story similar to actual events that have occurred in the past or are happening the world today? Which events?
• Are any characters like actual people today or in history? Who?

I wanted to focus on Bloody Sunday in Russia, and how Russian political history is so messed up.

• What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 
  • It was the start of the 1905 Russian revolution, there were a lot of riots and petitions. This made people want to get rid of the Tsar, because of how poorly the situation was handled.
• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 
  • Hong Kong 2019 protests. In hong kong, people are trying to change the laws or propose new ones.
• Why is it relevant to revisit this now? 
  • To show how if a government doesn't support its country. That way of the ruling will eventually fall. 
• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?
  • How Russian history has always been really screwed up. Whether it be the Tsars that ruled way back when to Lenin and the Soviet Union and how everybody is the same but not really. (In the Leningrad Blockade how most people were really hungry but some had the money and influence to get food from the outside. ) Overall how Stalin started ruling with fear, by putting people who opposed him into prisons. Short Democratic period that was introduced to abruptly and everyone rejected it. To now where Putin is ruling and destroying the country. 

Kyle Carpenter was a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps who threw himself on top of a live grenade in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,  in November of 2010.  Cpl. Carpenter absorbed the brunt of the blast from the grenade, saving the life of his fellow marine and going above and beyond the call of duty and performed heroic actions without regard for his own life. He suffered 2 ruptured eardrums, 1 collapsed lung, his right arm was shattered and broken in more than 30 different places. Shrapnel was blasted into both of his legs and also caused him to lose vision in his right eye. The blast destroyed much of the lower part of his face and all of his jaw which is now constructed artificially out of plates and skin grafts. He flatlined 3 times during the 5 weeks he was unconscious and had to have brain surgery to remove shrapnel lodged in his brain from the blast. 

Chaotic

The hong kong protests

Because it was a revolution, like the current hong kong protests and riots

The escape from the alamo

What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

In the french revolution, 1789

What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

riots in hong kong

Why is it relevant to revisit this now?
Because its close to whats happening in hong kong.

What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

Show Marie's struggles.