CRUCIABLE

Question 1

Act 1 very brief overview

Answer 1

We see an all encompassing fear reside over Salem as an atmosphere of Witcher’s grows and many characters, including Paris, begin to despair for their reputations and sense of power / control.

Question 2

A1

Paris asking Abby about the forest

Answer 2

Parris

“What did you do with her in the forest?”

Question 3

A1
Abby claims that it has all been sport and the witchcraft is not real
In response to Paris asking about the forest

Answer 3

Abigail:

“We never conjured spirits-“

Question 4

Mary reveals her fear that the village will find out and their reputations will be damaged

Answer 4

Mary:
“What’ll we do? the village is out! They’ll be callin’ us witches Abby!”

Mary:
“She means to tell”

Mary:
“We’ve got to tell!”

Question 5

Abigail’s fear that the truth would damage her chances with Proctor and blush her name make her wild and aggressive.
She manipulated the other girls with threats of violence. This strengthens her position in the group, as reputations are vital in securing jobs and husbands. The violence is made possible when she goes on to reveal her parents death, evoking sympathy and foreshadowing the deaths to come.

Answer 5

Abigail:

“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 you breath 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.

Question 6

Abigail is likened to an animal, showing passion and a desire / heat for a relationship
(1 line from Proctor and another from Abby)

Answer 6

Proctor:
“Abby that’s a wild thing to say”

Abigail:
“A wild thing may say wild things”

Question 7

The town itself is hypocritical, judgemental and false

Abigail

Answer 7

Abigail:

“I never knew these lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!”

Question 8

Abigail telling Proctor about looking at him through window

The windows show Abigail and Proctor without frames, enclosed by the society around them. but as they look at each other through the same window - the boundaries of the town and society dissolve, leaving just their desire. Proctors guilt doesn’t let the frames disappear

Answer 8

Abigail:
“I have a sense for heat, John, and yours has drawn me to my window, and I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness. Do you tell me you never looked up at my window?”

Proctor:
“I may have looked up”

Question 9

Proctor claiming he will never sin / stray again

Answer 9

Proctor:

“I’ll cut off my hand before I reach for you again”

Question 10

Act 2 very brief overview

Answer 10

This takes place in Proctor’s house and the feeling of being trapped continues. There is great tension.

Question 11

Proctor reveals character and relationship

Answer 11

Proctor:

“You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’ “

Question 12

Proctor talking to E
Ironic as Elizabeth is the most moral and true character within the play. This reveals that John is projecting his own guilt to Elizabeth

Answer 12

Proctor:

“Learn charity woman”

Question 13

Proctor

Symbolic / metaphoric for the darkness within the play and the damage within their relationship

Answer 13

Proctor:

“.. an everlasting funeral marches round your heart”

Question 14

Proctor

The confession is expected but Proctor sees it as a weakness, admitting that he has lost face

Answer 14

Proctor:

“.. but I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed!”

Question 15

Proctor is fearful of God’s judgement, and the fear that moral Elizabeth will see through him

Answer 15

Proctor:

“ and judge me not”

Question 16

Elizabeth reveals her own nature and that there is still a sense of caring between them. She reveals the truth - that John judges himself and merely projects himself on E

Answer 16

Elizabeth:
“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John - (with a smile) - only somewhat bewildered”

Question 17

Johns guilt drives him to become a religious crusader, and to stop Abby and her accusations

Answer 17

Proctor:
(Hesitating and with deep hatred for himself)
“Her saintliness is done with” …
“My wife will never die for me”.

Question 18

Act 3 very brief overview

Answer 18

A viral moment; we meet judge Danforth for the first time, and in a “solemn” setting. There is a wealth of emotion within this act and great oppression.

Question 19

Giles

Dramatic device to reveal the theme of greed and corruption. Hypocrisy is evident

Answer 19

Giles:

“Thomas Putnam is reaching for land!” … “why, I - I cannot give you his name”

Question 20

Proctors confession in a bid to stop the hysteria rising out of false accusations. It costs him a great deal and symbolises his loyalty to Elizabeth

Answer 20

Proctor:

“I have known her, Sir. I have known her.”

Question 21

Danforth’s shock and fear at Abigail’s sin is clear. He cannot afford for Abby to be proven as a whore, when he has executed so many based on her word

Answer 21

“You deny every scrap and Tuttle of this?”

Question 22

Proctor
Dramatic device to reveal character and motivations. Proctor has deep respect and faith in his wife to be true. He underestimates he love for him; enough to lie.

Answer 22

“.. my wife cannot lie. I have paid much to learn it, sir”

Question 23

Danforth seeks clarification from Elizabeth with this interrogative utterance. He intends to push Elizabeth to declare the truth, Outland, where no mistake can be made.

Answer 23

“Did he indeed turn from you?”

Question 24

Great loyalty and love is demonstrated here as E crosses her own sense of morality to protect her husband. It costs her her life, and soon P’s too.

Answer 24

Elizabeth: (faintly)

“No, sir”

Question 25

Hale’s mistrust and disillusionment with the court becomes evident. He is disgusted by the lack of logical thinking and the belief of one girl

Answer 25

“Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell”

Question 26

Abigails flouting o the max quality here provokes a new hysteria within the first and fear is presented in a new dramatic way. Mary is forced to back down and A reputation is saved again.

Answer 26

“Why do you come, yellow bird?”

Question 27

With no choice but to shift the blame Mary turns her attention to Proctor and uses him as a scapegoat accusing him of being devils man and instigating the witchcraft. This is not what A planned for originally and her own meddling hysteria has gone awry

Answer 27

“You’re the devils man!”

Mary

Question 28

Proctors faith is tested. His disbelief in the lack of logical thinking
The disgust at the lies told and blindness of the courts and his own guilt crush on him

Answer 28

“I say - I say - God is dead!”

Question 29

Act 4 brief overview

Answer 29

The climax of the play, set in a dark place and the jails of Salem
The tone is solemn, grave and for a brief instance passionate

Question 30

Photo of other quotes

Running out of time!

Answer 30

Question 31

Remaining quote that couldn’t fit on other photo

Answer 31

Question 32

Focus on Giles Corey and Danforth photo

Answer 32