Word | Meaning | Sentence using one example word | The Crucible: Intro + Act I Vocabulary Savor | appetizing | The food critics keeps the food in their mouth for a period amount of time to savor all the flavor from it. | Dogmatically | Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner | He dogmatically responded to his classmate‚ which caused him to be sent to the principal’s office. | Indigenous | Native to a certain area | Lewis and Clark needed Sacagawea’s help because she was indigenous
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English 3/Boynton Crucible Act 3 WORKSHEET 1. ! Consider the setting as the act opens. How is the different from the setting of Act 2. What is Miller doing? The setting is in the vestry room of the Salem meeting house‚ serving as the anteroom of the General Court. The setting is different from Act 2 because the setting is finally out of the house‚ its not inside a room or Rev. Paris house at all. It has become not private at all. 2. As this act opens‚ what accusation does Giles Corey make? What
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Uploaders Name Per 2 October 7th‚ 2013 The Deconstruction of Act 1’s “Demonic” Themes The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare and Salem Witch Trials. Its based in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. In Act 1 the play introduce many of the essential characters of the play. It introduces the fact that everyone in the town is carrying their own demons inside and their willing to bail them on anyone to escape judgment. In the play there are two types of demonic
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10/1/12 The Crucible: Act 2 Journal Entry 1 Everyone at some point has been judged unfairly. In my case‚ being judged unfairly can happen because of a lack of trust or lack of understanding. A good example of this was during freshman year in geometry. After spending many hours at a friend’s house working on an extensive homework assignment‚ we learned the material and completed the assignment by working together. After we turned the homework in‚ the teacher immediately wrote us off claiming that
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In Salem‚ the government is a Theocracy. What this portrays right away is that Salem is a town of very religious and pure peoples. It was noticed that some people were not as pure as they were supposed to be. The play starts off with Betty lying down‚ unconscious. Betty is accused to be a victim of witchcraft‚ which in those days meant death. John Hale is very well known for his expertise on witchcraft‚ so he is called down to view this situation. Parris also is losing control against his niece because
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller Konstantinidis Act I Questions: 1. What was the prevalent philosophy of Salem at the time of the incidents described in the play? 2. What were the purposes of the Salem theocracy? 3. According to Miller‚ what were the psychological reasons for the “witch-hunt”? 4. A dramatist has 3 major tools for presenting the facts of a play: antecedent action‚ exposition‚ and present action. Antecedent action is that which occurs before the play opens. Exposition is
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Act four takes place in a jail cell in salem. Herrick enters and wakes up Sarah Good‚ Tituba then wakes up. Herricks tell them to get out of there and then asks them where they are going‚ Tituba responds that they are going to Barbadoes. Then Tituba hears a cow bellowing and thinks that it is her Majesty calling out to take her home. The deputy governor‚ Hathorne and Danforth arrive followed by Cheever‚ they asks when did Hale arrive and what was he doing. Herrick responds that he was sitting and
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Brendon Guerrero Mar18 P2 Act 1 Scene 1 1. In which town is the play set? In what country do you suppose this town exists? It was set in Verona‚ Italy. 2. In the prologue‚ Shakespeare tells us that our two title characters are going to kill themselves. His 1600’s audience would’ve already known the story of Romeo and Juliet from a famous poem of the time‚ so this information would not have ruined the experience. In fact‚ many scholars say that knowing the deaths are coming actually improves the
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"...Thou shalt not bear false witness. [He is stuck. He counts back on his fingers‚ knowing one is missing.] Thous shalt not make unto thee any graven image" "You have said that twice‚ sir." (page 67) Speakers: John Proctor and Reverend Hale Irony: Situational Explanation: When Hale asked Proctor to recite the 10 commandments‚ he literally forgot that adultery is a commandment‚ considering his affair with Abigail being a prime example of adultery and the fact that he forgot to recite it. "We
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Act 1 Macbeth In Act 1 of Macbeth by Shakespeare I found the mood to be shifty. The way the weather and surrounding elements suddenly change‚ how the witches speak‚ and the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are really shady and mysterious. As the reader I never really know what to expect next from the setting or the characters. The weather in Act 1 was a dark factor‚ meaning by the way the thunder suddenly began appear when the reader knows something isn’t align
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