1. Please view the following clips from the 1996 film version of The Crucible and select one that you would like to write about. Underneath each is the page number that it can be found in the play, along with a brief description.
2. Respond to the clip by answering the following question:
What does the passage mean? Focus on individual words and/or phrases. How does it serve to develop or enlarge the character or characters speaking it? Please focus on the text and not so much on the film-related aspects of the scene.
Your response should be no more than three sentences. Please indicate which clip you've chosen (#1, 2, etc). Keep in mind that some clips skip or omit a few words or phrases, but overall the scenes retain most if not all of the text.
The deadline for this assignment is Friday, 11/18 at 11:59 PM.
1.) This is the scene in which Abigail talks to the other girls about what happened in the woods. (Top of pg. 20)
3.) This is Proctor's speech after ripping up the arrest warrant. (pg. 77)
4.) Danforth offers Proctor a chance to drop his charges. (pg. 92)
5.) "I Have Known Her" speech. (pg. 110)
6.) Proctor's "It Is My Name" speech. (pg. 143.)
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ReplyDeleteWhat is said in the passage means that Reverend Hale knows much more than most about witchcraft, and to prove it he has a book on, "all of the invisible world" (39). He even says that they, "cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise," showing that Hale knows the marks of the Devil, and one cannot simply guess that something is witchcraft. All of this serves to enlarge Reverend Hale's character because it shows that he knows more about witchcraft than others, and that is why he was called upon.
4) The passage means that Procter is a good, and selfless person. Procter would not drop his charges because they were "his friends and their wives were imprisoned too". This Developed the Audience's view of Procter and how selfless and caring he is.
ReplyDeleteThis passage reveals information about Abigail's character. One can infer from watching this clip that Abigail is an angry, aggressive girl who has lots of power over the other girls. This anger could have stemmed from her witnessing the violent and gruesome deaths of her parents.
ReplyDelete#1) This passage shows the affect the subject of witchcraft has on people; it can create complicated scenes and relationships. Abigail has seen "reddish work done" and is therefore very willing to kill everyone because of the serious effect witchcraft has on her. This shows Abigail is a diabolical person with the willingness to go to an extreme for the sake of her reputation and witchcraft.
ReplyDelete6.) In the passage, Proctor addresses a serious problem within the Puritan society which is the power and hypocrisy of the court. He states that a confession doesn’t need to be displayed for the community to see because God's eyes should be enough. Danforth is hypocritical by saying that it isn’t enough for only God to know that he is confessing, which it really should be in a ideal Puritan society.
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ReplyDeleteThis passage shows the authority that Abigail has over the others girls. She tells them not to speak about what happened that night. This shows that she is a vindictive person who wants and gets what she wants. This passage also shows that she doesn't think twice about killing for she talks about coming in the middle of the night with a "pointy reckoning that will shudder you". Since she has seen death before, it will be easier for her to kill whoever doesn't keep quiet.
3)In the third passage, Proctor voices his opinion of how the town is fueled on vengeance and that the accusers are holy and untouchable compared to the accused. This scene shows Proctor as the voice of reason and one of the only sane people in Salem. This scene shows the faults with the justice system in Salem.
ReplyDelete6) The passage shows that Proctor truly realizes who he is and that he has finally found out that he is not willing to taint his reputation further. He was compelled into confessing his sins of adultery as well as his non-Christian actions such as plowing the fields on Sunday. He realizes that there is truly nothing left within himself to live for except the fact that he is John Proctor and no one else should ever be able to take that from him which is exactly what would happen if he was forced to sign his name to a false confession to the entire town of Salem.
ReplyDelete3.)Within this passage, Proctor emphasizes the corruption of the accusers stating that they are all for vengeance and none for real accusations. He emphasizes that with these corruptions, the accusers are believed to be as holy as the God himself. This entails that Proctor is unlike the other characters in the play for he has rational ideas with rational solutions, and is able to see through the illusion.
ReplyDelete#6, Clip Six's, passage focusses on the high value put upon a good name in puritan society. In the passage Proctor states that he believes it should be enough for god to know his sins, as he believes personally that he is innocent and that god will know this. However, Danforth disagrees with this and would like to place his name along with his crime on the church door for all to see which would forever damage his reputation, and thus Proctor had decided that he will not accept that as his fate and chooses for only god to judge him.
ReplyDelete1.)In this clip Abigail is threatening the other girls to keep them quiet about what happened in the woods. She threatens them with a "pointy reckoning",which could refer to stabbing them, if they say anything besides that they were just dancing. She is afraid that she will be blamed for witchcraft if all the things they did in the woods are found out so she makes the girls tell the cover up lie that they were only dancing.
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ReplyDeleteDuring the passage, Proctor exclaims about how he feels that since there is no need for the whole town to know his name and think that he actually committed witchcraft. He explains that if he signs his name on the paper stating his confession, he will be a liar and will be less respected by God than he already is and that his name is not just something he calls himself, but it is a form of identity, something that if taken away from him, he will not be the same person. The emotion shows how greatly accusations of witchcraft affected the town.
1) This scene really gives more information about Abigial. She describes all the things that she has been through, and how she has no problem to brutally kill these girls if the word about her gets around. It also shows how far she will go to protect her self from getting in trouble.
ReplyDelete1.)This is the first and only time we see Abigail's nature undisguised. It has already been made clear that she is fierce and Machiavellian in getting what she wants but here we see that she is pretty much a sociopath, which is why the language is so dark and sharp. Also, the phrase, "my dear parents" acts as a reminder of her superficial emotion, as Parris has mentioned that he raised her from a very young age, so it is unlikely that she actually felt attached to them when they were killed, though their deaths are a likely explanation for her cruel cunning.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Proctor is protecting his and his wife reputation. Although verbally confessed before hand, he does not want his name to be forever tarnished as one who worked for the devil. This passage shows Proctors perseverance to fight for what he thinks sees as just.