Themes
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 evidence does Proctor give to the court to prove Abigail was lying?
Their affair.
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 the Crucible an allegory for?
McCarthyism
What does Proctor refuse to do?
Sign the confession
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
Who is arrested at the end of Act 2?
Elizabeth
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."
Rev Hale to Elizabeth
What type of government do the people of Salem have?
Theocracy
Describe Salem at the beginning of Act 4
It is in ruins because everyone is in jail or wanting to rebel.
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
Who is the first person Abigail accuses of witchcraft?
Tituba
Who said: "Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more- private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning this man has struck me true. By my oath to Heaven, I believe him now, and I pray you call back his wife before we-"
Rev. Hale
Who began McCarthyism? State first and last name.
Joseph McCarthy
Why does Danforth refuse to put off the executions?
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
What happens to Proctor at the end of Act 4?
He is hung.
Who said and who are they talking about: "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."
Proctor
Elizabeth and Abigail
What is the setting of the Crucible? Name the state, town, and year.
Salem, MA 1692
Why is Elizabeth reluctant to persuade John to lie and "confess?"
She wants him to make his own moral choice
Aside from the four main themes discussed in class, name two other themes that can be applied to The Crucible.
Manipulation, religion, lies, power
What specifically causes Mary Warren to switch sides in Act 3?
The girls mimicking her.
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
Describe Abigail in 3 words.
Liar, orphan, manipulative, lustful, etc
What is Proctor contemplating before Elizabeth speaks with him? (There are two answers)
If he should lie and save his life and if he was ever a good person.