Plot
Why does Mary Warren initially go to court?
To confess the girls were pretending to be bewitched
Who said: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang. How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name!"
Proctor
What is a metaphor
What theme does this represent?
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang. How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name!"
Reputation
What does Proctor refuse to do?
Sign the confession
What evidence does Proctor give to the court that the Abigail was lying?
That Proctor and Abigail had an affair.
Who said this and who are they addressing: "Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts go 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. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; not principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
Hale to Elizabeth
What is an allegory?
Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. A large symbol representing a moral lesson.
What theme does this represent?
"Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Twelve are already executed; the names of these seven are given out, and the village expects to see them die this morning."
Intolerance
Describe Salem at the beginning of Act 4.
It is in ruins because everyone is in jail or wanting to rebel.
Who vanishes during Act 4?
Abigail and the girls run away.
Rev. Hale
Who began McCarthyism?
Joseph McCarthy
What theme does this represent?
"She and all the girls run to one wall, shielding their eyes. And now, as though cornered, they let out a gigantic scream, and Mary, as though infected, opens her mouth and screams with them."
Hysteria
Why does Danforth refuse to put off the executions?
He does not want to undermine the court and does not want to look weak.
What makes Mary Warren switch sides? Be specific.
The girls begin to act as if she is bewitching them. The start to mimic everything she says.
Who said: "In the proper place - where my beasts are bedded. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me in my house, sir. A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you- see her what she is. My wife, my dear good wife, took this girl soon after, sir, and put her out on the highroad."
Name the other two people referred to in the quote.
1. Proctor
2. Abigail and Elizabeth
What is the setting of The Crucible? Name the town, state, and year.
Salem Massachusetts, 1692
What theme does this represent?
"Mr.Hale, believe me; for a man of such terrible learning you are most bewildered - I hope you will forgive me. I have been 32 year at the bar, sir, and I should be confounded were I called upon to defend these people. Let you consider, now - And I bid you all do likewise. In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it?
Judgement.
hy is Elizabeth reluctant to try and persuade John?
She wants him to make his own moral choice
Why does Reverend Hale return to Salem at the beginning of Act 4?
To help/persuade those accused to lie.
Who said: "No, old man, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience. But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road in between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world."
Danforth
What is the name of the Article, written by Arthur Miller, that discusses tragedy in a modern sense?
Tragedy and the Common Man
Aside from the four main themes discussed in class, name two other themes that can be applied to The Crucible.
Religion
Forgiveness
Manipulation
Power
What is Proctor contemplating before Elizabeth speaks with him? (There are two answers)
If he should lie to save his life and if he is a good person.