Ms. Pennell’s Big-Bad Study Guide to help you pass The Crucible or the severe test or trial that will be the examinations for this literary work of genius by Arthur Miller. By the way‚ that was your first vocabulary word (crucible – heat-resistant container in which metals are melted or fused at very high temperatures; thus a severe trial or test). Get ready to have your brain melted!! List of Characters Reverend Parris -- vicious‚ shallow‚ cowardly‚ villainous‚ peacock of a man (former merchant
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Act Three Questions Directions On a separate sheet of paper‚ please answer each part of each question asked below. Please use complete sentences and please answer the question as asked. 1. As the act opens‚ who is being interrogated and on what charge Martha Corey is being interrogated by Judge Hathorne on the charge of telling fortunes (witchery). 2. What is interesting about the dialogue at the beginning of this act What was Miller trying to suggest about the tone of the legal proceedings to
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|Madeleine Sherwood | |Susanna Walcott |Barbara Stanton | |Mrs. Ann Putnam |Jane Hoffman | |Thomas Putnam |Raymond Bramley | |Mercy Lewis |Dorothy Joliffe
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Abigail’s lies would be when she influenced the other girls that were in the forest at the beginning of the play to lie and say that certain things didn’t happen. Abigail said to the girls‚ "Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sister. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word‚ or the edge of a word‚ about the other things‚ and I will
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PURITAN LITERATURE three main points "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford Summary: Bradford describes life in the new Puritan (1)’city upon a hill’. The Puritans thanked God for bringing them to the new land and built their lives around him. Although‚ in the beginning‚ (2) they had to push through disease and harsh weather. Bradford also describes how lonely the Pilgrims felt‚ because no one could ’greet them’ and they were in a place in which they knew nothing about. He knew that
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and Elizabeth Proctor‚ but they asked her to leave for some mysterious reason. When another couple‚ Thomas and Ann Putnam‚ arrives at the Parris household‚ they admit that they actually consulted Tituba‚ hoping she could conjure up the spirits of their seven dead children. They wanted to find out why all seven died so soon after childbirth. To Reverend Parris’s horror‚ the Putnams emphatically state that his slave Tituba consorts with the dead. The Putnams’s only
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? "Shh! What was that?!" "I didn’t hear anything...wait...what is that!?" You’re camping out with your friends in your backyard‚ one muggy summer night. You were confident and excited as your evening began. Suddenly‚ when your friend begins to hear noises‚ you think you hear them too. It’s dark outside your tent‚ and you cannot see anything around you. You are ignorant to your surroundings. Since you are unsure what could be lurking in the dark‚ you begin to believe
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Reverend Parris as they were dancing in woods while Tituba stirred a stew in a crucible‚ and chanted words in her Barbados tongue. Supposedly‚ Ann Putnam sent her daughter to Tituba to try and conjure the spirits of her dead babies. She wanted to find out who had killed them at birth‚ and she suspected Rebecca Nurse‚ as Rebecca had been a midwife for Ruth in more than one case where the baby "shriveled in her hands". Of course‚ nobody had anticipated the girls being caught... At first‚ the girls
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escalation of the witch hunts in Salem. Partisans truly believed in the existence of witches‚ as it was recognize as a sin against God in the bible. This caused their society to accredit any unnatural happenings to the Devil. When Ruth and Betty cannot wake‚ Ann Putnam blames her daughters unconscious state and the deaths of her unbaptized babies on witchery. Witchcraft in Salem is only a rumor until Reverend Hale comes to cleanse the town of evil. Soon after Paris tells Hale of his discovery of
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Why does Mrs. Putnam believe there are witches in Salem? 5. Why is Thomas Putnam bitter? 6. Parris says‚ "Oh‚ Abigail‚ what proper payment for my charity! Now I am undone!" What does that mean? 7. What is Mary ’s argument to Abby? 8. Describe Proctor. 9. What happened between Abigail and John Proctor prior to the opening of the play? 10. What was the "sign" that Betty was bewitched? 11. Identify Francis and Rebecca Nurse. 12. Explain the political relationship between the Putnam and Nurse families
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