Good Morning, Juniors December 18, 2012 Do Now: Please open your computers and go to my website. www.msleblanc English.weebly.com Find our final reading notes (end of act 3 and all of act 4. Save them into your Crucible folder. Reacquaint yourself with how to insert a comment in MSWord. Ms. White and I can help.

Directions Finish the film: 2 quotes Act four starts differently in the book, than the movie. Look over the reading passage (homework from last night). When we come to the various, selected passages, please reread and insert your own comments to respond to the corresponding questions. Discuss our analysis of the passages

Act 3: Film passage Act 3: Reverend Hale says, “Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more-private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning, this man has struck me true. By my oath to Heaven, I believe him now, I pray you call back his wife before we-“ (Miller 115). What is the lie? What is the private vengeance? Who is responsible? “Before we” what?

Act 3-Film Passage 2 Act 3, Mary Warren says, to the community (about Proctor), “My name, he wants my name. ‘I’ll murder you,’ he says, ‘if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,’ he says” (Miller 120). What in Mary Warren’s statement is true? What is a lie? Why is she choosing to lie now?

Act 4-Reading passage 1-homework from Monday Act 4 starts with Sarah Good and Tituba in the dungeon. Think about Tituba’s vision. “Oh, it be no Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasureman in Barbados, him be singin’ and dancin’ in Barbados. It’s you folks—you riled him up round here; it be too cold ‘round here for that old boy. He freeze his soul in Massachusetts, but in Barbados he just as sweet and—(sound of a cow) Aye Sir! That’s him, Sarah” (Miller 123)! How does Tituba know “it be no hell in Barbados”? Who is the pleasureman? Is he good or bad? How is this dreamlike? Why might Tituba be dreaming?

Act 4-Listening Passage 1 Reverend Parris says, “Tonight when I open my door to leave my house—a dagger clattered to the ground. You cannot hang this sort. There is danger for me. I dare not step aside outside at night” (Miller 129)! Why a dagger? Why is Reverend Parris afraid for his life? What does this have to do with John Proctor’s excommunication? What might it have to do with Abigail and Mercy Lewis?

Act 4-Listening Passage 2 Judge Hathorne says, “Mr. Hale, as God has not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot hold from them the perfection of their punishment” (Miller 130). What does Mr. Hale want that Hathorne denies? What is the “perfection of their punishment”?

Act 4-Listening Passage 3 Reverend Hale explains (the conditions of Salem), “Exellency, there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlot’s cry will end his life—and you wonder yet if rebellion’s spoke? Better you should marvel how they do not burn your province” (Miller 131)! Why is Salem in such awful condition? Where do you see “hysteria”? (uncontrollable emotion or excitement, esp. among a group of people) What is the harlot’s cry?

Act 4-Listening Passage 4 Reverend Hale to Elizabeth says, “Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came to this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye on my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware, Good Proctor—cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, how ever glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God’s judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he who throws his life away for pride. Will you plead with him, I do not think he will listen to another” (Miller 132). How is this a confession? How is this a plea for truth? Do you agree with Reverend Hale’s statement, “… life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, how ever glorious, may justify the taking of it. “ What is the “pride”?

Act 4-Listening Passage 5 Elizabeth explaining the death of Giles Corey, “He were not hanged, He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge, they’d hang him surely, and auction off his property. So, he stand mute, and died Christian under law. And so his sons, will have his farm. It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment yay or nay” (Miller 133). Who most wanted to auction off Giles property? How does Giles win the land war?

Act 4-Listening Passage 6 Elizabeth, explaining Giles’ death, “Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. ‘More weight,’ he says. And died” (Miller 135). From what you know about Giles, how does this make sense?

Act 4-Listening Passage 7 Elizabeth says to John, “Do what you will. But let none be your judge. There be no higher judge under Heaven than Proctor is! Forgive me, forgive me, John—I never know such goodness in the world” (Miller 137). How is John Proctor is own judge? Why does Elizabeth ask John for forgiveness? What goodness does Elizabeth see in John?

Act 4-Listening Passage 8 Danforth to Proctor, “Why “must” you say it? Why you should rejoice to say it if your soul is truly purged of any love for Hell (Miller 140). What does Danforth want Proctor to say? How is this statement a paradox?

Act 4-Listening Passage 9 John Proctor proclaims, “You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you will use me” (Miller 142)! Why does John feel used? What is the distinction between Sarah Good and Tituba v. John Proctor? What role does salvation play in John’s signing?

Act 4-Listening Passage 10 John Proctor screams “with a cry of his whole soul”: “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name (Miller 143)! How does Proctor’s name differ from his soul? What do the lies have to do with his name?

Homework Please continue to work on these for homework. You may handwrite your responses if you don’t have access to technology at home, just make sure you’ve printed what you need. Tomorrow we’ll review the quotations and key vocabulary Paradox, Hysteria, Motive, Theocracy, Faction Thursday, final quest!