Notes for The Crucible Part 5

religion. I think that’s in your mind, is it not? Hale, [not altogether giving way]: I - have there is a softness in your record, sir, a softness. Hale, [nods, deliberating this. Then, with the voice of one administering a secret test]: Do you know your Commandments, Elizabeth? Elizabeth, [without hesitation, even eagerly]: I surely do. There be no mark of blame upon my life, Mr. Hale. I am a covenanted Christian woman. Proctor, [as though a secret arrow had pained his heart: Aye. Trying to grin it away - to Hale]: You see, sir, between his view on proctors undermined reputation within the town. -Stage Direction -interrogating tone -Truncated sentences -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions Hale is going around to houses of the accused testing the families’ faith. He does this by asking them to recite their commandments. Through the stage directions, we can tell that Elizabeth is a strong confident woman (and by the truncated sentences) -Allegations -Truth and deception -Faith Suspicion Reputation Resilience -Stage Direction -Irony -Nervous tone -Asyndeton -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions -Paradox When asked to state all the commandments, ironically, Proctor named all of them except the one forbidding adultery, as -Faith -Truth and Deception -Religion -Allegations Suspicion Resilience Reputation Fear the two of us we do know them all. [Hale only looks at Proctor, deep in his attempt to define this man, Proctor grows more uneasy]. I think it be a small fault. Hale: Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small. [He rises; he seems worried now. He paces a little, in deep thought.] Elizabeth, [unable -Stage Direction to restrain herself]: -Rhetorical Mr. Hale. He turns. I -Question do think you are suspecting me somewhat? Are you not? Hale, [obviously disturbed - and evasive]: Goody Proctor, I do not judge you. My duty is to add what I may to the godly wisdom of the court. I pray he has committed this already. He tries covering it up so that Hale does not convict of him being a bad Christian. -Human Behaviors and motivations Human emotions. Elizabeth senses that Hale is suspicious of her. She is evidently sensitive and leads her to openly state her objection to any claims made against her. Hale then hurriedly proceeds to contradict her thoughts and suspicions and prays for both of them, John and Elizabeth Proctor. Allegations Accountability Seriousness Reputation -Suspicion -determination. -Fear -vulnerability -Outrage -Rage -distrust Hale you both good health and good fortune. [To John]: Good night, sir. [He starts out.] Proctor, [with difficulty]: I - I have no witness and cannot prove it, except my word be taken. But I know the children’s sickness had naught to do with witchcraft. Hale: Nonsense! Mister, I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and numerous others that have confessed to dealing with the Devil. They have confessed it. Proctor: And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that? -Tone -Stage Direction -human behavior and motivations Proctor tells Hale that he knows the children’s actions are not based on witchcraft and tries to make him believe it even though there is no hardcore evidence. -tragedy -Survival -Care -Suspicion -Determination -Vulnerability -Exclamatory language -truncated sentences -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions -Hale is objecting to proctors claim that the girls are pretending to have dealt with witchcraft. -Good vs Bad -Truth vs lie -deception -Disbelief -Outrage -Rhetorical Question -Human behavior and motivations -Human emotions Proctor explains that people will lie in order to save their lives, so all those who were accused and admitted to witchcraft had actually only done so in order to avoid hanging. -Truth Vs lies -Allegations -Fear -Vulnerability Hale: I have. I - I have indeed. [It is his own suspicion, but he resists it. He glances at Elizabeth, then at John.] And you - would you testify to this in court? Proctor: I falter nothing, but I may wonder if my story will be credited in such a court. I do wonder on it, when such a steadyminded minister as you will suspicion such a woman that never lied, and cannot, and the world knows she cannot! I may falter somewhat, Mister; I am no fool. Hale, quietly - it has impressed him: Proctor, let you open with me now, for I have a rumor that troubles me.' It’s said you hold no belief that there may even be -Repetition (Stuttering) -Syntax (Hyphen) -interrogative sentence -Human motivations -Human emotions Hale questions John if -Lies and we will present his Deceit evidence against Abigail -Justice to the court. -Suspicion -hesitation -Repetition -Exclamatory language. -Syntax Interrogative language. -Human emotions -Human behaviors' and motivations. John Proctor is becoming increasingly inpatient, angry and frustrated with the court proceedings. He further questions whether his story will be credited in court or not. -Good vs Bad -Truth vs Lie -Anger -Frustration -Determination -Outrage -Deception -Stage Direction -interrogative sentence Tone (Investigative) -Biblical illusion -Human motivations -Human emotions -Individual and collective human experiences Hale proceeds to ask John if he believes in witches. This question will determine if he truly is a christain man. if he believes in witches. -Truth and deception -Good vs evil -Suspicion -Doubt -Confirmation -Interrogation witches in the world. Is that true, sir? Proctor - [he knows this is critical, and is striving against his disgust with Hale and with himself for even answering: [ I know not what I have said, I may have said it. I have wondered if there be witches in the world - although I cannot believe they come among us now. -Interrogative Language -syntax -Tone (investigative) -Stage direction. -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions Human Experiences. Proctor does not like Hale, but he explains that he doesn’t really know whether there are witches in the world or not, but what is happening to them right now is not the doing of witches. -Truth and Deception -good vs evil -Religion and Faith -Survival -Reputation -Suspicion -Doubt -Superstition -Syntax -Asyndeton -Stage directions -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions -Individual Elizabeth tells Hale that if he believes she is a witch, then she does not believe in witches, for she knows that she is a righteous Christian Allegations Resilience Accountability Confidence Seriousness Frustration Reputation -Supernatural -Good vs Evil Hale: Then you do not believe Proctor: I have no knowledge of it; the Bible speaks of witches, and I will not deny them. Elizabeth, [to Hale]: I cannot think the Devil may own a woman’s soul, Mr. Hale, when she keeps an upright way, as I have. I am a good woman, I know it; and if you believe I may do only good work in the world, and yet be secretly bound to Satan, then I must tell you, sir, I do not believe it. Hale: But, woman, you do believe there are witches in Elizabeth: If you think that I am one, then I say there are none. Human Experiences. woman and has done nothing wrong. -Religion and faith -Affirmative tone -Imperative Language -Exclamatory language -Frustrated tone -Human behaviors and motivations -Human emotions -Ignite New Ideas Elizabeth tells Hale that if he believes she is a witch, then she does not believe in witches, for she knows that she is a righteous Christian woman and has done nothing wrong. Hale starts questioning her belief in the Gospel, but Proctor quickly rises to her defence. Elizabeth tells Hale to question Abigail about the Gospel, for Elizabeth believes she is the one who has questionable faith. -Abuse of Power -Lack of Awareness -Exclamatory Language -Tone of frustration -human behaviors and motivations Elizabeth refers to the children going too far in their pretense. -Truth and -frustration Deception -Desperation -Seriousness -Confidence Accountability Hale: You surely do not fly against the Gospel, the Gospel Proctor: She believe in the Gospel, every word! Elizabeth: Question Abigail Williams about the Gospel, not myself! Elizabeth: They’ve surely gone wild now, Mr. Hale! -doubt -suspicion -frustration -Desperation -Confidence Francis: My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church, Mr. Hale [indicating Giles] and Martha Corey, there cannot be a woman closer yet to God than Martha. Hale, [pleading]: Nurse, though our hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points! Proctor, [angered]: How may such a -emotive language -Metaphor -Sad tone -Human emotions Human motivations -Human emotions -Individual and collective human experiences -Stage Direction -Emotive Language -exclamatory language -Stage Directions Giles is upset that his wife was accused and taken away. He pleads with Hale that she is a good woman. Allegations -Frustration Accountability -Irritation Truth and -Suspicion deception Reputation -Anomalies Inconsistencie s-Paradoxes -Human emotions -Human behaviours and Motivations. Hale tells Francis Nurse that while his wife may be questionably imprisoned, they cannot doubt the reasons for it, as anyone could be the Devil’s advocate in these odd times. -Truth and deception -Emotion vs intellect accountability -Good vs Evil -suspicion -doubt -determination -confidence -Anomalies Proctor tries to explain how outlandish it is to accuse someone who -Truth and deception -good vs evil -suspicion -confusion -interrogation woman murder children? -Interrogative Question -juxtaposition Hale, [in great pain]: Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. Giles: That bloody Derogatory mongrel Walcott language charge her. Y’see, he buy a pig of my Diction wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after. So, he come dancin’ in for his money back. So, my Martha, she says to him, “Walcott, if you haven’t the wit to feed a pig properly, you’ll not live to own many,” she says. Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch inconsistencie s-paradoxes Human emotions -human behaviours and motivations Human behavior and motivations has been religious their whole life, but Hale simply gives an example of how the Devil was once good as well. Within Salem the people are accustomed to accusing others of witchcraft in order to get their way. In this situation Martha is being accused by Walcott as she would not refund him his money after his pig died. Rather than admitting his mistake and purchasing a new pig he rather lies and deceive the people of Salem in order to get Martha to break and give into returning his money. -doubt Deceit Accusation Truth v lie Allegations Accountability Reputation Suspicion Determination Fear vulnerability Outrage Rage distrust them with her books! Proctor: Who charged her? Syntax short sentence Human behavior and motivation Proctor is questioning Cheever, trying to figure who charged Elizabeth. He then finds out it was Abigail who charged her. Cheever is examining the poppet when he finds a needle under the skirt embedded in it. Deceit Accusation Good vs evil Accountability reputation Suspicion Fear Vulnerability distrust Good vs evil Perception vs Reality Truth and Deception Fear Suspicion Distrsut Cheever: Why, Abigail Williams charge her. Interrogative sentence Cheever, [turning the poppet over in his hands]: Why, they say it may signify that she [He has lifted the poppet’s skirt, and his eyes widen in astonished fear]. Why, this, this Cheever: Why - [He draws out a long needle from the poppet] - it is a needle! Herrick, Herrick, it is a needle! [Herrick comes toward him.] -Repetition Human behavior and motivation Human emotions Stage directions Exclamatory language syntax Human behavior and emotion Cheever takes out the needle and shows it to Herrick. Proctor is confused as he does not yet know the significance of the needle. Confusion Anger Astonishment Outrage suspicion -Fearful Tone -Stage Direction -Human motivations Cheever explains how Abigail was at Parris’s -Lies and Deceit -Trickery -Injustice Proctor, angrily, bewildered: And what signifies a needle! Cheever, [wideeyed, trembling]: The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she - [to Proctor now] testify it -were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in. Cheever: ’Tis hard proof! [To Hale]: I find here a poppet Goody Proctor keeps. I have found it, sir. And in the belly of the poppet a needle’s stuck. I -Suspicion -Human behaviour and emotion -Inconsistency house for dinner, then dropped down and yelled in pain. Parris went down to help her and found a needle stuck in her stomach. At the time they didn’t know how it happened but they never considered that she stuck it in herself. They suspected a kind of voodoo doll to be the cause, and so they searched houses for dolls and found one in Elizabeth’s house, and a needle just so happened to be stuck inside of it. They deduced it belonged to Elizabeth, and so she is now accused of attempted murder of Abigail. -Appearance vs Reality Stage directions biblical allusion syntax – short sentences human behavior and motivation Cheever tells Hale how -Deception the poppet is proof of -Appearance Elizabeth trying to harm vs Reality Abigail. He is convinced this is hardcore evidence. -Gullibility -Paranoia -Hysteria -Stubbornness tell you true, Proctor, I never warranted to see such proof of Hell, and I bid you obstruct me not, for IHale, [watching Mary Warren closely]: Child, you are certain this be your natural memory? May it be, perhaps, that someone conjures you even now to say this? Mary Warren: Conjures me? Why, no, sir, I am entirely my-self, I think. Let you ask Susanna Walcott - she saw me sewin’ it in court. [Or better still]: Ask Abby, Abby sat beside me when I made it. Proctor, [to Hale, of Cheever]: Bid him begone. Your mind is surely settled -Stage directions -Rhetorical Question -Hypophora -Repetition -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions Hale ensures that Mary isn’t being forced by anyone to say what she is saying. Mary continues to confess that she made it in court and that the other girls are witness to it. -Deception -Appearance vs Reality -Good vs Evil -Innocence -Fear -Hysteria -Impatience -Anger now. Bid him out, Mr. Hale. Hale: Mary - you charge a cold and cruel murder on Abigail. Mary Warren: Murder! I charge no Hale: Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found stuck into her belly Elizabeth: And she charges me? Hale: Aye. Elizabeth, [her breath knocked out]: Why - ! The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world! Cheever: [pointing at Elizabeth]: You’ve heard that, sir! Ripped out of the world! Herrick, you heard it! -Exclamatory Language -Metaphor -Syntax -Descriptive Language -Truncated sentences -Stage directions -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions After hearing that she was accused of murder, Mary was astonished, but Elizabeth was even more shocked, and said a controversial statement which provided evidence for Cheever that she indeed was the one who stabbed Abigail. -Appearance vs Reality -Justice -Good vs Evil -Injustice -Hysteria -Paranoia Misunderstandi ng Proctor: If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance! Hale: Proctor, the court is just Proctor: Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this! -Rhetorical Question -Exclamatory Language -Hypophora -Inclusive language -Metaphor -Repitition -Simile -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions Proctor outlines the key flaw in the judicial system: the accusers are never questioned because of the excuse of being bewitched. He refuses to allow his wife to be taken by Abigai’s fraudulent actions. -Justice -Appearance vs Reality -Fraud -Deception -Anger -Injustice Truncated Sentences Biblical allusion Exclamatory language -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions Proctor is outraged that his wife is being taken away from him, and he tells Cheever that he will regret doing this. -Justice -Anger -Helplessness Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court! Fear nothing, Elizabeth. Simile Exclamatory Language Human behaviours and motivations Human emotions Herrick, panting: In God’s name, John, I cannot help myself. I must chain them all. Now let you keep inside this house till I am gone! [He goes out with his deputies.] Hale: Charity, Proctor, charity. What I have heard in her favor, I will not fear to testify in court. God help me, I cannot judge her guilty or innocent - I know not. Only this consider: the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl. Bibles Personal language Exclamatory Language Stage directions Human behaviours and motivations Human emotions Repetition Truncated sentences -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions Proctor is explaining to Elizabeth that he will overthrow her court case and set her free. The use of exclamatory language shows the audience how much he really cares for his wife and how he wants to set her free Herrick explains that he must chain the accused, despite John’s plea, and tells him to calm down and back off until he leaves. Justice -Determination -Will -Confidence -Strength -Love -Justice -Despair -Vulnerability -Anger Hale further -Appearance demonstrates his vs Reality confusion by stating -Good vs Evil that he doesn’t know whether Elizabeth is innocent or not, but he refuses to believe that Abigail is more evil than she seems. -Confusion -Disbelief -Stubbornness Proctor: You are a coward! Though you be ordained in God’s own tears, you are a coward now! Exclamatory -Human language behaviour and Biblical allusions motivations -Human emotions Hale: Proctor, I cannot think God be provoked so grandly by such a petty cause. The jails are packed - our greatest judges sit in Salem now - and hangin’s promised. Man, we must look to cause proportionate. Were there murder done, perhaps, and never brought to light? Abomination? Some secret blasphemy that stinks to Heaven? Think on cause, man, and let you help me to discover it. For there’s your way, believe it, there is your only way, when such confusion strikes Biblical allusion Syntax Rhetorical questions Stage directions Metaphor -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions Proctor calls Hale a coward, as Hale refuses to take a side, despite his knowledge in the Devil’s ways, he has no idea what to do, and this angers Proctor. Hale tries to convince Proctor to go to court and prove everyone’s innocence and save his wife, for he is the only one with any power to do so. -Good vs Evil -Justice -Anger -Arrogance -Disapproval -Justice -Lies and Deceit -Understanding -Will -Hope upon the world. [He goes to Giles and Francis.] Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all. I shall pray God open up our eyes. Proctor: You’re coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court, Mary Warren: I cannot charge murder on Abigail. Proctor, [moving menacingly toward her:] You will tell the court how that poppet come here and who stuck the needle in. Mary Warren: She’ll kill me for sayin’ that! [Proctor continues toward Stage directions Exclamatory language Imperative language -Human behaviour and motivations -Human emotions The following quote depicts a dialogue between marry warren and John proctor, in which John proctor is trying to convince and force marry warren to go to court and charge Abigail for murder .marry warren then tells John proctor that Abigail will charge him with lechery, and although he originally is shocked , he -Justice -Reputation -Good vs Evil -Determination -Fear -Abuse of Power -Despair -Threat her.] Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor! Proctor, [halting]: She’s told you! Proctor, [hesitating, and with deep hatred of himself]: Good. Then her saintliness is done with. [Mary backs from him.] We will slide together into our pit; you will tell the court what you know. Mary Warren, [in terror]: I cannot, they’ll turn on me - Stage Directions Tone sentence -Human motivation -Human behaviour and emotion Proctor intends to take Mary with her to court to prove that the children are not afflicted by witchcraft. -Good vs Evil -Justice -Determination -Confidence -Demanding -Stage direction -Truncated sentence -Foreshadowing -Individual human experience -anomalies -Assumption Mary Warren is afraid that if she testifies against Abigail then all the girls will turn on her for betraying them -Fear -Foreshadowing -Despair Proctor: My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me! Exclamatory language Metaphor Hyperbole -Human behaviours and motivations -Human emotions - While proctor is on a rampage because his wife has been taken away, he rants about the goodness of goody proctor won't die. Hysteria Guilt Reputation Good vs evil Lies and deceit Hysteria Guilt Proctor, [grasping her by the throat as though he would -Stage directions -Human behaviors and motivations In the quote, Proctor appears to angry with Mary Warren as he -Hysteria -Good vs Evil -Anger -Fear -Stubborn -Determination -Threat -Anger strangle her]: Make your peace with it! Now Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretense is ripped away - make your peace! [He throws her to the floor, where she sobs, "I cannot, I cannot...” And now, half to himself, staring, and turning to the open door]: Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. [He walks as though toward a great horror, facing the open sky]. e, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow! -Exclamatory Language -Religious allusions -Metaphor -Repetition -Syntax -imagery -Tone -Human emotions Inconsistencie s physically assaults her. The utlisation of imagery conveys Proctors aggressive behavior towards Mary Warren along with his references back to god as if he feels some sought of guilt for his actions. -Threat -Disapproval