Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

How does Miller present ideas about witch-hunts in The Crucible? Plan Intro In the Crucible, Arthur Miller writes using the allegory to the events and actions of ex-American senator Joseph Mcarthy. The ‘house of un-american activities committee’ was established in late 1938, and with the leadership of Mcarthy, persecuted and discriminated all any communist in…

The first thing we did, before knowing what the stimulus was was talk about the various ways we can begin any improvisation. Ideas such as finding symbolic meaning, crafting a story, characterization and researching the context came up. I decided to record my and my group’s initial reactions to the stimulus. This would allow us…

Rebecca Nurse – ‘Let us rather blame ourselves and-‘ with the entrance of Hale, she tells is ‘I fear it.’  These quotations make the readers feel like Hale is a corrupt man that brings corruption wherever he goes. It would be better to deal with the problem without external help because no good will come…

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to defer the external performance of your “Oh What a Lovely War!” piece until Tuesday 19th of June (a one week deferral). You will now be timetabled in lessons as normal tomorrow. Our apologies for the lateness of this notice.

My initial response to the script stimulus is that there is a lot of political satire. Satire is a tool that can be used to criticise people through the use of irony, comedy or exaggeration.  While reading the script I became more uncomfortable as the characters, some of whom were symbols of countries, talked about…

The themes of love and hate are presented in act 3 scene 1. Ceasar is assassinated in the Capitol. Love is presented when when the last word that comes out of Caesar’s mouth is “Ceasar!”. The love that Caesar has for himself is clear as the cliché for dying words is along the lines of…