1. Warm-Up Act I Review Characterization: Proctor and Elizabeth Homework
“The Crucible” Act II
Warm-Up
Act I Review
Characterization: Proctor and Elizabeth
Homework

2. Warm – Up ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
Great literature provides rich and timeless insights into key themes, dilemmas, and challenges we still face today.
ESSENTIAL QUIESTIONS:
How does Miller use characterization in ACT I to define Abigail and John Proctor?
What is a literary foil?
How would you describe the relationship between Proctor and Abigail in Act I? What predictions can you make about what will happen next?

3. Reverend Parris
What is the relationship between Betty, Abby, and Parris? What is Tituba’s relationship to the Parris family? What is his standing in the community? (What opinions are held of him?) What are Parris’s concerns in this act? What is your impression of him so far?

4. Thomas and Ann Putman
What has happened in the past to Mrs. Putman? Why do they suggest Betty has been bedeviled? What is your impression/opinion of the Putman’s so far?

5. Antagonist/Protagonist
Who is the protagonist of the story? Who is the antagonist, so far? How would you describe her? Who is Rebecca Nurse? How would you characterize her? How does Tituba react when being questioned by Hale? What is the benefit in naming names? What does it achieve?

6. Characterization – Proctor and his women
Reread the scene in which Elizabeth and Proctor are alone for the first time.
In pairs, complete the charts provided.
After watching the scene, discuss the prompt at the bottom of the page.

7. Complete the writing prompt discussing John and Elizabeth Read Act II
Homework
Complete the writing prompt discussing John and Elizabeth
Read Act II

8. Warm-Up Act II Discussion and Questions Homework
“The Crucible” Act II
Warm-Up
Act II Discussion and Questions
Homework

9. Warm – Up ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
Great literature provides rich and timeless insights into key themes, dilemmas, and challenges we still face today.
ESSENTIAL QUIESTIONS:
How does Miller use characterization in ACT I to define Abigail and John Proctor?
What is a literary foil?
Are you surprised by the reactions in ACT II? Explain how each character has changed since ACT I.
Proctor
Mary Warren
Hale
Putnam

10. The Crucible
Act Two
"The little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom and common vengeance writes the law!”
Answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper while we move through the PowerPoint. Questions are due at the end of class.

11. The Proctor Household
Eight days have passed. Things have moved on in Salem.
The stage directions and dialogue establish this as a domestic setting.
The talk is of planting, children and dinner
In some ways they both seem happy:
Elizabeth “blushing with pleasure”.
Proctor “Lilacs is the smell of nightfall...Massachusetts is a beauty in the spring”.

12. Tension
1. What do the following quotes suggest about the Proctor’s relationship?
Proctor “Learn charity, woman...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart”- p.58
Judgement- Proctor says that he feels that his house has become a courtroom where he is judged.
Elizabeth replies that the judgement is in his heart.

13. Mary Warren
2. How has Mary Warren changed since the opening of the play?
Mary seems to have convinced herself that she is telling the truth.
“I feel a clamp around my neck...I hear a voice, a screamin' voice”
Mary has made a doll for Elizabeth
Mary stands up to Proctor
Mary says that Elizabeth was mentioned but that she saved her.

14. Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor is disturbed by Mary’s report of events
Elizabeth realises the seriousness: ‘She want’s me dead.’
3. Who wants here dead and more importantly why?

15. Hale
“there is a quality of deference, even of guilt about his manner now”
4. What does this stage direction tell us about Mr Hale?
Questions the Proctors about not visiting church and their son not having been baptised.
Hale: “No – no, I come of my own…your wife’s name is – mentioned in the court”
5. What does Miller do to show Hale’s uncertainty?
Think about sentence structure and use of punctuation

16. Hale Continued Proctor criticises Parris (tone)
“it tells me that a minister may pray to God without he have golden candlesticks upon the altar.”
Hale makes him recite the ten commandments- Proctor forgets the one about adultery
“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small” Hale pg 65

17. Rebecca's charged!
It is the charging of Rebecca Nurse that makes the Proctors realize how much things have got out of hand
And which has caused doubts in Hale's mind
But he has convinced himself the court is right: “No man may longer doubt the powers of the dark are gathered in monstrous attack upon this village”. p68

18. Accusing Abigail
Miller provides various points in the play where he suggests that things might be brought under control.
“I know the children's sickness had naught to do with witchcraft” p. 72
Hale seems shocked but Proctor convinces him by his honesty and with flattery, “such a steadyminded minister as you”

19. Homework
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