English final exam: Satire in The Crucible

The Crucible is by Arthur Miller

Who is the Arthur of the Crucible?

John Proctor is a honest farmer, struggles with guilt and integrity

Who is John Proctor?

Elizabeth Proctor is john’s wife, honest and moral, suffers from Abigail’s jealously

Who is Elizabeth Proctor?

Reverend Parris is the minister, self-centered and fearful of losing his position

Who is Reverend Parris?

Abigail Williams is the villainous niece of Reverend Paris, leads the witch trials with lies

Who is Abigail Williams?

Reverend Hale is a witchcraft expert who begins confident but doubts the trials later

Who is Reverend Hale?

Mary Warren is a servant to the Proctors, she is torn between the truth and peer pressure

Who is Mary Warren?

Giles Corey is an old farmer who challenges the court and dies refusing to confess

Who is Giles Corey?

Wealthy, uses trials to gain land

Who is Thomas Putnam?

Strict and stubborn judge overseeing the trials

Who is Judge Danforth?

Reverend Parris discover his daughter Betty and other girls dancing in the forest, which sparks rumors of witchcraft

What does Reverend Parris discover about his daughter Betty?

Betty falls into a coma-like state, increasing fear in the village

What happens to Betty?

Abigail Williams, Parris’s niece accuses innocent people of witchcraft to avoid punishment and gain power

Why does Abigail accuse innocent people of witchraft?

Salem becomes engulfed in witchcraft hysteria, with neighbors turning on each other

What happens to Salem in the beginning?

Reverend Hale arrives, believing he can identify witches and end the crisis

What happens when Reverend Hale arrives?

John Proctor is pressured to confess to witchcraft, but refuses to lie, wanting to preserve his name and accepts execution

What happens to John Proctor during the trial?

Giles Corey is pressed to death for refusing to plead guilty or innocent

Why is Giles Corey executed?

Salem is left in guilt and ruin, realizing the damage caused by hysteria of witchcraft and false accusations

What happens to Salem (the town) after the trial?

Abigail was John Proctor’s former servant and lover. She still wants John and tries to ruin his marriage to Elizabeth by accusing her of witchcraft

Who is Abigail to John?

John, however, regrets the affair with Abby and wants to protect his wife

How does John react to Abby?

Abigail frames Elizabeth by putting a needle in a poppet and having Mary Warren give it to her, then claims Elizabeth used it to hurt her witchcraft

How does Abigail frame Elizabeth with witchraft?

Mary Warren tries to tell the truth during the trial but withdraws her confession after peer pressure from Abigail. She ends up siding with Abigail, pretending to see spirits

How does Mary Warren act during the trial?

The girls pretend to see spirits to avoid punishment

Why do the girls pretend to see spirits?

Abigail and the girls started the witchcraft panic by lying about their forest dancing and blaming others for witchcraft

Who started the witchcraft?

Third person dramatic: the audience sees everything through characters’ actions and speech, with no narrator

What is the point of view?

Hysteria and accusations: Fear spreads quickly and causes chaos

What is the main motif?

Who said it, what’s happening (context), and what it means (theme or satire)

What is passage identification?

Mass hysteria causes false accusations and destroys lives, while personal integrity conflicts with protecting reputation

What is the main theme?

Tragedy or play

What is the genre?

Mass hysteria makes people act irrationally: The whole town quickly believes in witchcraft after Betty’s illness and Abigail’s accusations, causing chaos

Miler exposes how mass hysteria makes people irrational. What example shows this? (Satire)

Abuse of power by authority: Miller shows Judge Danfoth as a symbol of authority that values power and reputation over justice

Miller exposes the abuse of power by authority. What example shows this? (Satire)

Pride and reputation: John Proctor chooses death over confessing a lie to protect his name

Miller exposes how pride and reputation drive tragic choices. What example shows this? (Satire)

Tituba is Reverend Pariss slave who’s accused of witthcraft first and forced to confess, starting the hysteria in Salem

Who is Tituba?

Shows Proctor’s struggle between saving his life and keeping his honor in Act 4

“Because it is my name” John Proctor, Act 4

Abigal’s accusation spark the witch trials and shows off her manipulative power in Act 1

“I saw Goody Osborn with the Devil!” Abigail Williams, Act 1

Mary tries to tell the truth but Is overwhelmed by fear and pressure from the other girls in Act 3

“I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus!” Marry Warren, Act 3

Judge Danforth says people either support the court or they are enemies. There’s no middle ground in Act 3

“You must understand sir, that a person, is either with this court or against it.” Judge Danforth, Act 3