C. Elizabeth lies to save her husband’s reputation D. John Denounces the trial.
22. What does Judge Hathorne ask Mary Warren to do in court that she cannot do?
A. pray B. make a doll C. send out her spirit D. recite the Ten Commandments E. faint
23. Danforth does not want to find out that the girls’ accusations are false because he
A. will not be able to acquire the victims’ land B. will be blamed for the deaths of innocent people
C. is afraid people will think him ignorant of the law D. does not want involvement with Abigail revealed
24. Why does Elizabeth refuse to influence John’s decision whether to confess?
A. She feels he must face his own conscience and make his own decision.
B. She cannot feel guilty if he refuses to confess.
C. She cannot feel guilty if he does confess.
D. She feels that he cannot blame anyone but himself if he does not confess.
25. The term “Goody” is
A. the first name of characters in the play B. a title meaning Good wife
C. An exclamation used to get the audience’s attention D. A typo not meant to be in the play
E. A term Miller made up
1. 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 me my name!
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
2. I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seem them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it. A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and for love, it will soon itself come back.
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
3. You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road 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. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
4. I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
5. He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man. Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him, “No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want kill that man.” But he say, “You work for me…”
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
6. I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
7. I am a stranger here, as you know. And in my ignorance find I hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court. And so, this afternoon, and now tonight, I go from house to house—I come now from Rebecca Nurse’s house…
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
8. I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name—you will believe me, Mr. Danforth! My wife is innocent, except she knew a whore when she was one!
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
9. There be so many cows wanderin’ the highroads, now their masters are in jails, and much disagreement who they will belong to now. I know Mr. Parris be arguin’ with farmers all yesterday—there is great contention, sir, about the cows. Contention make him weep, sir; it were always a man that weep for contention.
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
10. And there’s your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now 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. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
11. He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
A. Character
B. Context
C. Significance
12. 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! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your back hearts that this be fraud—God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
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E. Context
F. Significance
13. I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.
D. Character
E. Context
F. Significance
14. Judge Hathorne—it were another sort that hanged ‘til now. Rebecca Nurse is no Bridget that lived three year with Bishop before she married him. John Proctor is not Isaac Ward that drank his family to ruin. I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet in the town. Let Rebecca stand upon the gibbet and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she’ll wake a vengeance on you.
D. Character
E. Context
F. Significance
15. Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died.
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I. Significance
16. John, it come to naught that I should forgive you, if you’ll not forgive yourself. It is not my soul, John, it is yours. Only be sure of this, for I know it now: Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it. I have read my heart this three month, John. I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt leachery.
D. Character
E. Context
F. Significance
17. I saw it! Now tell me true, Abigail. And I pray you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry’s at stake and perhaps your cousins’s life. Whatever abomination you have done, give me all now, for I dare not be taken unaware when I go before them down there.
G. Character
H. Context
I. Significance
18. We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright is all.
D. Character
E. Context
F. Significance
19. Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
G. Character
H. Context
I. Significance
20. The Psalm! The psalm! She cannot bear to hear the Lord’s name!
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The Need For Social Responsibility, A 'Human Bond', Integrity.
We all have an obligation to combat perceived evil in society yet characters like Parris, the Putnams, the judges and Abigail shirk this responsibility in favour of promoting personal ends. Show how they do this and contrast their behaviour with that of John Proctor who, in placing the well-being of his fellows above his own interests show Miller's belief in a need for personal integrity.
Refer back to the grid you completed at the beginning of this unit in which you listed contemporary examples of the issues raised in The Crucible. Are you able to make a link between any of these issues and the need for social responsibility as expressed by Miller.
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Societal Problems Can Often Be Traced To Individual Human Failings.
Though the trial has religious and super-natural implications Miller tends to show the troubles as stemming from recognisable human failings. Discuss how the following failings are manifested in the play - greed, vengeance, jealousy, ambition, fear, hysteria.
Refer back to the grid you completed at the beginning of this unit in which you listed contemporary examples of the issues raised in The Crucible. Are you able to make a link between any of these issues and Miller's contention that social problems can often be traced back to individual failings?
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Societies Often Try To Suppress Individual Freedom, In Order To Maintain Social Order.
Discuss how this idea is brought out in the play especially through Proctor's struggle in the final act - the judges' insistence on pinning his written confession on the church door and his resistance to this. Also through Giles Corey who tries to maintain his individual rights (but note the contrast with Proctor's motives).
Refer back to the grid you completed at the beginning of this unit in which you listed contemporary examples of the issues raised in The Crucible. Are you able to make a link between any of these issues and the ideas about individual freedom contained in The Crucible?
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Often People Tend to Think in 'Black and White'.
(eg. good or evil, god-like or devilish, capitalist or communist). The upholders of the social order like Danforth are forced into this sort of thinking. How? Even Elizabeth Proctor associates John's sexual transgression with evil but what does she come to see.
Refer back to the grid you completed at the beginning of this unit in which you listed contemporary examples of the issues raised in The Crucible. Are you able to make a link between any of these issues and Miller's contention that people tend to think in "black and white"?
Reverend Paris is the current reverend of the Salem congregation. He has joined the community in the recent years and has made changes within the church to the dismay of many people. Paris is not liked by some because they see him straying away from the traditional ideals of the Puritan church/lifestyle examples: his placing of gold within the Puritan church which broke away from Catholicism due to their extravagance, his wanting to own the house the congregation has provided he and his family with, this is something no reverend before him has done; and also requesting for higher pay which already included all of his yearly expenses. Paris appears to be an egotistical man who is more concern with his reputation rather than the "illness" of his child. Paris' personality causes many to turn away from him and his church which will ultimately affect their fate.
John Proctor is the protagonist in this play. He is a man in his thirties who seems not to be like the other men in his town. He has a had a brief secret history with Abigail and has made it his duty to stop this ludicrous witch hunt which has his wife also mixed up within it. Proctor serves as a guiding light of hope for good amongst these evils. His strong demeanor and popularity amongst many makes him a target of reverend Paris who he openly shows his discontent for.
Thomas Putnam is one of the wealthiest men in Salem. His greed which stems from his wealth has made him one of the main driving forces behind this witch hunt. His ulterior motives leads to the condemning of many innocent people. He has let his own person problems supersede not only his own but the moral beliefs of the susceptible people who are backing him. He seems to always find himself in the middle of a discussion injecting his opinions and ideas for his benefit.
Mrs. Putnam the wife of Thomas Putnam, is depicted as a bitter woman due to the loss of her seven children. With this current witch hunt taking place Mrs. Putnam ceases the opportunity to make accusations against her family rivals the Nurses. Mrs. Nurse served as the midwife of all of Putnam's deceased children, because her children died shortly after birth Mrs. Putnam believed that Mrs. Nurse had something to do with it. This accusation aids as evidence to her husbands already existing claims which stems from land disputes.
Francis Nurse is the head of one of Salem's most affluent families. His family and the Putnam's family has had an on going rivalry for many years. This rivalry has put his wife amongst the dozens of accused during this witch hunt.
Rebecca Nurse is the wife of Francis Nurse. Mrs. Nurse is kind elderly woman whom is widely cared for and respected by the townspeople. Mrs. Nurse has acted as the midwife of Mrs. Putnam's seven children who all have perished shortly after. This continuous pain has created a hatred in Mrs. Putnam towards Mrs. Nurse. This hatred has driven Mrs. Putnam to the extreme measures of identifying Mrs. Nurse as one of the many witches that reside in Salem.
Giles Corey serves as the comical relief character within this play he seems to always find himself in trouble or amidst a conversation where he interjects smart-alecky comments. Corey has a habit of speaking without fully thinking the content through, this habit ads his wife to the list of the accused
Abigail Williams is the leading force behind the witch hunt. She is the niece of Paris who seems to be singled out by many of the other towns women due to he behavior. Abigail a teenage girl who had a brief affair with John Proctor cannot seem to fathom the fact that John is not willing to leave his wife for her and she becomes spiteful. When seeing she has an opportunity to seek revenge on those who she believes have done her wrong she uses the then obscure suggestions of their being witches involved in the mysterious illness of her cousin Betty to strike. Abigail serves as the leader of these victims who claim to be possessed as they pick through the towns people in search of "witches".
Betty Paris is the ten year old daughter of Reverend Paris. Betty has mysteriously fallen ill after she and other girls were caught dancing naked in the the woods around a fire by her father Paris. Dancing was strictly forbidden in the Puritan society seen as unholy. Betty's illness brings Reverend Hale to Salem to check for signs of witchcraft Hale is a man revered for his work with the banishing of witches.
Marry Warren is the current maid of the Proctors. She and Abigail was amongst the girls caught in the woods. Mary in the beginnings is one of the many who are making accusations but once she sees what harm is being done to kind people she knows like Elizabeth Proctor she has a change of heart and tries to right not only her wrongs but the wrongs of the other girls
Tituba is the slave of Mr. Paris. Tituba has been accused of conjuring up spirits with the girls in the woods. Tituba is accused of being a witch and in order to save herself she has to admit to their actually being witches in the community. This act begins the witch hunt.
Elizabeth Proctor is the wife of John Proctor. Elizabeth's non-affectionate demeanor towards her very affectionate husband, forces him to look for it else where in the arms of Abigail. When realizing the error of his ways John discontinues the relationship and tries to rebuild his relationship with his wife. This act sparks tension between Abigail and Elizabeth, marking Elizabeth as Abigail's main target in her witch hunt. Elizabeth's love, loyalty and devotion to her husband
Judge Hathorne is the Judge who has come to Salem to preside over the cases. Judge Hathone is depicted as a man who is not easily persuade. He needs absolute proof and if it is not granted then you are therefore guilty. Hathorne claims to be fulfilling God's duty by banishing the tainted spirits but he himself seems to be acting as God.
Reverend Hale is the revered Reverend who has come to Salem to conduct the witch hunt. Reverend Hale's presence in the community sparks a massive outbreak of people being accused. Once Reverend Hale realizes the corruption which is taking place he tries desperately to spare the lives of these innocent people and expose the liars.
