Today in class next weeks vocabulary set was handed out, we discovered that there will be a test on the entire puritan unit either Friday of next week or Monday of the next week, and we answered four questions about The Crucible. The following questions are going to be the topics of discussion on Monday:
1. Act 1: Why does Abigail and then Tituba both confess to witchcraft when they first claimed their innocence? Why do they then implicate others?
2. Act 2: John Proctor "Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest." How honest is Proctor really?
3. Act 3: During the attempt to get Mary Warren to testify, Proctor says "They're all marvelous pretenders." Why, when asked to do so, is Mary Warren incapable of pretending to faint? She says that there is something lacking. What is lacking? Where can/should we draw the line between acting and being?
4. Act 4: Why does Proctor balk at signing his name to what he knows will be seen as a public confession? How does this action of not signing the paper conclude or dissolve one of the main dramas of the play?
These questions should be answered with references from the text and your own opinions.
- Jen
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