Intolerance and Fear

Question 1

‘All our old pretense is ripped away - make your peace!’

Answer 1

Proctor

Act 3

Question 2

Salem is a society ‘grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition’

Answer 2

Interpolations

Act 1

Question 3

‘I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!

Answer 3

Hale

Act 2

Question 4

‘If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then there is nothing left to stop the whole green world from burning!’

Answer 4

Hale

Act 2

Question 5

‘(quietly) Oh, the noose, the noose is up!’

Answer 5

• Elizabeth
• Act 2
• Foreshadowing
• Elizabeth’s comment about the noose foreshadows the events that occur in Act 4. Ultimately, it is not Elizabeth who will be hanged, but her husband.

Question 6

‘I cannot think the Devil may own a woman’s soul, Mr Hale, when she keeps an upright way, as I have. I am a good woman, I know it; and if you believe I may do only good work in the world, and yet be secretly bound to Satan, then I must tell you, sir, I do not believe it.’

Answer 6

• Elizabeth
• Act 2
• Elizabeth tells Hale that she refuses to believe in witchcraft when someone as good of a woman as her is being accused of it, which also causes Hale to suspect her initially

Question 7

‘We are only what we always were, but naked now.’

Answer 7

• Proctor
• Act 2
• there is no longer any way for people to hide their vengeance and their sins, for everything is now coming to the surface

Question 8

‘Postponement speaks a floundering on my part…I speak God’s law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering’

Answer 8

Danforth

Act 4