the play? (b) What were she and her cousin Abigail doing the night before? 2. Summarize Abigail’s prior relationship with the Proctors. 3. Who is Reverend Hale? Why is he contacted? 4. What seems to be the main motivation for Reverend Parris’s concern about Abigail and Betty’s behavior in the forest? 5. (a) When Reverend Parris leaves the room‚ Abigail‚ Mercy‚ Mary‚ and Betty talk in private. What does their discussion revel? (b) How does this scene hint at events that will occur
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Knowledge is power‚ which can give an individual the ability to persuade others. In the Play The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the characters are accused of witchcraft. They tell the truth to who they choose‚ giving that person the ability to persuade the judge’s thoughts to their advantage‚ because‚ they know what actually happened in the woods. Power in the form of truth is passed between the characters as the witch trial progresses. Power is obtained when secrets or knowledge about others are revealed
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happens when Reverend John Hale finds himself in a community entwined with lies‚ deceit‚ and betrayal. The play starts out in Salem‚ Massachusetts when a group of girls are discovered dancing in the woods at night. The girls’ actions lead the local town’s people of Salem in a suspicion of witch-craft when Betty Parris‚ the daughter of the local minister Reverend Parris‚ lay in bed one morning not being able to wake. Caught up in the whole talk and suspicion of witch-craft‚ Reverend Parris sends for
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are considered to be round and complex which infers that their personalities advance throughout the story. Three characters that go through an influential and drastic change in the beginning half of the play are Mary Warren‚ John Proctor and Reverend Parris. Overall‚ although most of the characters in the story had a slight conversion‚ certain characters’ changes overshadowed others. To begin‚ Mary Warren is initially a poor treated servant in the Proctor household who is very timid‚ demure and easily
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works and how it corrupts the town. Hysteria begins when Reverend Parris’ daughter‚ Betty‚ becomes ill after being “...discovered dancing like heathen in the forest‚” (I‚ 10) . Crucible ‚ with his niece Abigail‚ Tituba‚ and a few other girls. Tituba was Reverend Parris’ black slave that he had brought with him from Barbados. Betty’s illness seemed to be incurable and she would not wake. A few of the townspeople visited the Reverend Parris’ home to figure out what was happening. They started to develop
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to Blumberg‚ when Reverend Samuel Parris became the first ordained minister of Salem Village. The attempt to search for a new minister had failed‚ since the town of Salem had split to form small outskirts known as Salem Farms and the original Salem Village‚ and several Reverends and ministers before Parris were opposed against‚ or strongly disliked by the people. Parris answered to the call of ministry and moved to Salem Village with his wife‚ daughter Elizabeth "Betty" Parris‚ age 9‚ niece Abigail
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Miller’s The Crucible‚ Puritan Salem‚ Massachusetts is uprooted when a panic surrounding accusations of witchcraft takes over the town. As more people begin to be accused and tried‚ the community begins to disintegrate as the local minister and a reverend from a nearby town lead a witch-hunt to purge the town of accused witches. Children become orphans‚ crops go un-harvested and cows roam the streets. The PlayMaker’s Repertory Company production of The Crucible seeks to illustrate how intolerance
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already erred in the sentencing of prior convictions. He does not brook any exceptions and will not stay the proceedings because this will cast aspersions on his honour and reputation‚ which he confuses with the court’s. When John Proctor and the Reverend Hale plead for the innocence of their loved ones and seek more time‚ Danforth dismisses their concerns by stating that “it is not just” for those already found guilty. In the crucible faith and truth are shown all around in the story starting by
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Arthur Miller Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? 2. Why is the Reverend Samuel Parris so distraught at the beginning of Act One? What unnerves him about the report Susanna Walcott brings from Doctor Griggs? Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? 3. What do we learn in the exposition of the play about the events in the forest? About Abigail Williams’s past connections with the Proctor
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Abigail is the first person you would think of when looking for someone to blame for the Salem witch trials. This is because she is seen as the ringleader of the girls who were accusing people of being witches. The first thing we learn about Abby in the stage directions is “an orphan with an endless capacity for dissembling’ this shows us straight away that she likes to cause trouble. In the first act we learn that she has had an affair with proctor. He’s says ‘ill not be comin’ for you no more’
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