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2021 The Crucible Act IV, part 2 Today you will read the second half of Act IV, pages 533-539

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2021 The Crucible Act IV, part 2

Today you will read the second half of Act IV, pages 533-539.  This last part of the play brings the resolution of the story. There are 9 different roles in today's reading.  Answer the questions below as you read.

Roles: narrator, Hale, Elizabeth, Hawthorne, Danforth, Parris, Proctor, Rebecca, Herrick

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1) List the students reading in your group today with their roles in parentheses. For example: Bob Smith (Parris & Susanna), Jane Doe (Tituba & Ms. Putnam), Sally Sue (Narrator), and Michael Scott (Abigail & Putnam).  If you are making up this assignment by yourself due to being absent, please indicate that instead.

2) Hale says he has no connection with the court.  What is Hale's personal reason for pleading with Elizabeth to speak with John?  (page 533)

3) What argument does Hale use to justify John giving a false confession, and why do you think Elizabeth refers to this as "the Devil's argument"?  (page 533)

4) How is Proctor "another man" now, and how does the emotion of his seeing Elizabeth affect the other men who are present?  (page 533)

5) Based on Proctor's first questions to Elizabeth, what seems to be his first concern?  (page 534)

6) What happened to Giles Corey and why was this done?  (page 534)

7) Describe the tone and emotions expressed toward one another in Proctor and Elizabeth's conversation.  How are the tone and emotion of this conversation different from that of their conversation at the beginning of Act II?  Explain.  (pages 535-536)

8) Explain John's reasons for deciding to confess.  (page 535)

9) Why does Danforth insist that Proctor's confession be in writing?  (pages 536)

10) Why do the judges have Rebecca brought out to witness John's confession?  How does this move actually seem to backfire on them instead?  (page 537)

11) Reread Proctor's speeches in lines 878-916.  What, ultimately, does John do with his confession, and for what reasons does he do this?  Explain.  (pages 538-539).

12) Why doesn't Elizabeth try to change John's mind despite Hale's pressuring her to do so?  (page 539)