Background
The author of The Crucible.
Who is Arthur Miller?
The reason people are condemned to hang in the witch trials.
What is "refusing to confess"?
The reason Judge Danforth is hesitant to accept that the girls are frauds.
- He has already arrested and condemned so many people.
- He doesn't want his authority to be undermined and look foolish
"I made a gift for you today Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing."
Mary Warren
"Why you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers?"
John Proctor
A type of story that has a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning
What is an allegory?
Judges in the trials accept this as a form of proof in court that a person is not bewitched.
What is "reciting the Ten Commandments"?
The reason Hale states that people are afraid of the courts in Salem.
- They know that the courts are irrational, and they do not want to be accused or condemned
"She'd dare not call out such a farmer's wife but there was monstrous profit in it. She thinks to take my place, John."
Elizabeth Proctor
"And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?"
Judge Danforth
A ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures.
What is a crucible?
Rebecca Nurse has been accused of doing this.
What is "killing Ann Putnam's babies through witchcraft"?
Mary Warren is unable to do this to prove that she and the other girls are lying.
What is faint?
"In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day."
Reverend Hale
"A fire! A fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours Danforth!"
John Proctor
The story of the Crucible a symbolic representation of the events during _________________.
What is The Red Scare OR McCarthyism?
Abigail does this to get Elizabeth Proctor thrown in jail.
What is "pretending to be stabbed by a needle that has been placed in a doll"?
The significant lie that Elizabeth tells before the court.
- She fired Abigail only because she was dissatisfied with her work
- Abigail and John did not have an affair
"I never said my wife were a witch, Mr. Hale; I only said that she were reading books!"
Giles Corey
"...but then the whole word cried spirits, spirits, and I - I promise you, Mr. Danforth, I only thought I saw them but I did not."
Mary Warren
Miller compares the actual witch hunts of the Salem Witch Trials to the hunt for _____________ during McCarthyism/The Red Scare.
What are communists?
The three reasons Hale believes the court could think that the Proctors are bewitched.
- They do not regularly attend church.
- One of their children has not been baptized.
-John Proctor forgets about the commandment forbidding adultery.
The way Abigail and the other girls turn on Mary Warren.
They pretend to see a yellow bird that Mary Warren has sent out to hurt them.
"Mr. Proctor, I have little time. The court bid me search your house, but I like not to search a house. So will you hand me any poppets that your wife may keep here?"
Ezekiel Cheever
"We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment."
Judge Danforth