Bye Bye 2016!!

This is gonna be my last post for 2016, so i'm gonna keep it nice and simple. Last week in class was kinda hectic. We had a snow day Monday so our plans had to be rearranged a little bit. Through the week we finished reading The Crucible. At first I didn't quite understand the satirical aspects associated with the book, and I couldn't understand what it was trying to illuminate. But after our socratic seminar on Friday, i understood the meaning of the book. It had a great amount of exaggeration, social irony, and it basically highlighted the mistreatment of women and the accusations associated with them. My classmates explained how throughout the book Elizabeth was always the weaker submissive character, but at the end of the book, she switched roles with John Proctor and took the dominant role. That was an example of irony because it showed the drastic change between roles in their relationship. After having the socratic seminar the book is much clearer to me.