Conformity and resistance

Question 1

what does Miller reveal about this big idea?

Answer 1

• Within a puritan society conformity and obedience is expected of the community
• link to McCarthyism when poeple had to name others in order to save themselves otherwise they would be blacklisted.

Question 2

‘We may open up the boil of all our troubles’

Answer 2

Parris

Act 1

Question 3

You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!’

Answer 3

Proctor

Act 3

Question 4

The balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom’

Answer 4

Interpolations

Act 1

Question 5

‘I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness”

Answer 5

Abigail

Act 1

Question 6

‘I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.’

Answer 6

Proctor
Act 1
- Proctor resistance of his relationship with Abigail

Question 7

‘My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church’

Answer 7

• Frances Nurse
• Act 2
• Metaphor
• Frances emphasises Rebecca’s importance and loyalty to the Church (and God).

Question 8

‘There is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning’

Answer 8

• Parris
• Act 1
• Simile

Question 9

‘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!’

Answer 9

• Proctor
• Act 4
• Hyperbole and Imagery

Question 10

‘All innocent and Christian people are happy for the courts in Salem! These people are gloomy for it’

Answer 10

Parris

Act 3

Question 11

‘You know in all of your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together’

Answer 11

• Proctor
• Act 3
• Imagery
• Imagery of ‘black hearts’ portrays evil and sin, Proctor is calling the court evil and saying that the girls are lying, which he suspects that the judges know already.
• The imagery of burning is also used to depict hell. Proctor is saying that for all the evil the court has done and for lying, everyone will burn in hell. ‘God damns our kind especially’ - God will punish liars, he will send them to hell.

Question 12

‘You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!’

Answer 12

• Proctor
• Act 4
• Highlights Proctor’s resistance against the court as he refuses to obey Danforth and name other people in Salem

Question 13

‘I nailed the roof upon the church, I hung the door’

Answer 13

• Proctor

- Act 2

Question 14

‘I cannot judge you, John.’

Answer 14

• Elizabeth

- Act 4

Question 15

‘Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it.’

Answer 15

Elizabeth

Act 4