Context and Authorial Purpose (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
Year Miller wrote The Crucible
Year Miller wrote The Crucible
1953
Literary device: historical events represent contemporary issues
Literary device: historical events represent contemporary issues
Allegory
Date range of Salem witch trials
Date range of Salem witch trials
1692-1693
Period of anti-communist witch-hunts in America
Period of anti-communist witch-hunts in America
1950-1954 (McCarthyism/Red Scare)
Courtroom testimony about visions/dreams in Salem
Courtroom testimony about visions/dreams in Salem
Spectral evidence
Number of people hanged in Salem by August 1692
Number of people hanged in Salem by August 1692
19
HUAC full name
HUAC full name
House Un-American Activities Committee
Being made unemployable for communist sympathies
Being made unemployable for communist sympathies
Blacklisting
Year Miller was subpoenaed to testify before HUAC
Year Miller was subpoenaed to testify before HUAC
1956
Percentage of Salem accused who were women
Percentage of Salem accused who were women
75%