Question

Prompt: Choose one of the following two readings for your focus. The Crucible, Act 1, Part 1 “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” Part 1 To connect the text to a personal experience, you can ask yourself questions like Does the text remind me of something that has happened in my life? Do I relate to the characters in the story? To connect the text to another text, you can ask yourself questions like Does the text remind me of something else I have read? Do I see similarities between the text and something else I have read? To connect the text to the world around you, you can ask yourself questions like Does the text remind me of something that has happened in the world around me? Do the events in the story remind me of something that has happened in the world? In a short paragraph, explain the connection you made. Be sure to provide specific examples from your chosen reading and your experiences.

Answer 1

Prompt: The Crucible, Act 1, Part 1

The Crucible starts in the place of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose little girl, betty, lies oblivious in bed higher up. Before the kickoff of the play, Parris found Betty, his niece Abigail, and Tituba, his dark slave from Barbados, moving in the woodland outside of Salem at midnight. After Parris emerged from the shrubberies, Betty blacked out and has stayed in a trance from that point forward. The town doctor, Doctor Griggs, who has not had the option to decide why Betty is sick, recommends black magic as a potential reason.

I cannot relate with the reading (and hope that I never have to relate with) but even though the story takes place in the seventeenth century, it portrays an example of conduct we find in hysterias today—to be specific, the potential for dread to become craziness and end in misfortune.