Author's notes (not on anyone specific)

Question 1

Author’s notes on ‘essential nature’ = Paratext

Answer 1

“I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history” (Act 1, author’s notes) = Paratext

Question 2

Nazis and Communists doing stuff = Anecdote

Answer 2

“Certain processes are universal… (When Gentiles saw jews loaded in trucks in Nazi Germany and when Kulaks started vanishing in Ukraine…) the common reaction was quite naturally to turn away in fear” (1996 Why I Wrote the Crucible, Outside of text) = Anecdote

Question 3

Fate of each character = Paratext

Answer 3

“The fate of each character is that of his historical model” (Act 1, author’s notes) = Paratext

Question 4

Fusing of characters = Paratext

Answer 4

“Dramatic purposes have sometimes required many characters to be fused into one” (Act 1, author’s notes) = Paratext