Vocabulary
Calamity
Disaster, deep distress/damage
Where is Act 4 set?
In a jail
"I fear she'll wake a vengeance on you"
"He have his goodness now."
Integrity
"If retaliation is your fear, know this - I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes."
Hyperbole, metaphor and allusion
Swine
Pig
How many months have passed since the end of Act 3?
Three months
"Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love."
Elizabeth Proctor
"While I speak God's law, I will not crack it's voice with whimpering"
Judgement
"Mr Hale, as God has not empowered me like Joshua to stop the sun rising, so I cannot withhold from them the perfection of their punishment."
Allusion, simile, motif (sun, God) and alliteration
Belie
To give a false impression of something
How much money does Abigail steal from Parris?
31 pounds
"You have made your magic now, for I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs."
"There be a faction here, feeding on that news, and I tell you true, sir, I fear there will be riot here."
Hysteria/mob mentality
"I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up."
Simile, allusion, personification, imagery
Harlot
A woman who engages in sexual immorality according to Puritan laws
What document does Danforth want to display to the town of Salem?
Proctor's confession
"Hang them high above the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!"
Deputy Governor Danforth
"Is there no good penitence but it be public?"
Justice
"I am not your judge, I cannot be."
Metaphor
Excommunication
A formal expulsion from the Church (and a damnation of the soul)
What sound can be heard at the end of the act?
Drumbeats
"What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth?"
"How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
Reputation
"Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
Repetition, allusion, motif (God)