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Title: The Crucible Annotations
Description: Vocab, Quotes and Explanations, Summary Points, Literary Elements, Connections and Comments
Description: Vocab, Quotes and Explanations, Summary Points, Literary Elements, Connections and Comments
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The Crucible Annotations:
Vocabulary:
(pg 10) Abomination: anything greatly disliked or abhorred
(pg 11) Parish: a local church with its field of activity
(pg 33) klatches: A casual social gathering, usually for conversation
(pg 37) incubi: imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons
(pg 37) succubi: demon or evil spirit
(pg 91) effrontery: shameless or impudent boldness
(pg 93) ipso facto: by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
(pg 105) slovenly: untidy or unclean in appearance or habits
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Quotes/Explanations:
1
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But you must
understand, sir, that a person is either with this court of he must be counted against it, there be
no road between
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Now, by God’s grave, the
shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it
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– pg 87
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This is significant because
of how powerful it is
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“I’ll tell you what’s walking Salemvengeance is walking Salem
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Summary Points:
Act 1:
It all begins when Parris finds his daughter Betty and niece Abigail dancing naked with his slave,
Tartuba, in the woods
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Parris sends for Reverend Hale to come and see what is wrong with her
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Putnam’s daughter Ruth is also sick
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Abigail tells Parris that all they did was dance
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Putnam admits she sent Ruth to speak with Tituba so she could speak to her lost children
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Mary wants to tell the town the whole truth:
Abigail drank blood that was said to kill Ann Proctor and they conjured spirits
We learn that Abigail and Proctor had an affair
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Tituba eventually admits that she gave Abigail chicken blood to drink and she spoke with the
devil
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Abigail says she saw Sarah Good, Goody Osburn, and Bridget Bishop with the devil, Betty rises
up and chants with them
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Act II:
Mary tells the Proctors about Goody Osburn and Sarah Good’s Trials
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Proctor’s wife is accused and taken away
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Abigail claims she was stabbed in the stomach with a needle, then a poppet with a needle in it is
found at the Proctors home
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Mary and Proctor decide what they will say at the trial
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Proctor tells the Judge that Mary will tell them the girls are lying and accusing innocent people
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Elizabeth is pregnant, so she’ll be okay for now
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Abigail says it’s not true
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Mary says she was with Abigail when she made the doll
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Mary suddenly is affected and screams with the girls
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Act IV:
Tituba and Sarah tell a man moving them that they are going to fly to Barbados with the Devil
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Proctor and Elizabeth discuss confession
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She forgives him for his affair
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He signs a paper of confession, but rips it up when he learns they were figuring on placing it on
the door of the church
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Irony: “Innocent” children were accusing actual innocent people of witchcraft
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Foreshadowing: Mary tells the Proctors that Elizabeth’s name was brought up in
court…and sure enough, she was taken there
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Stage Direction: THE CURTAIN FALLS
pg 46
Connections:
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There is an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch (haha, oh dear) where her class
tours Salem and reenacts a witch trial
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They sought out
innocent people to get back at something that really didn’t affect the innocent people at
all
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When Sweeney is sent to jail for a
crime he did not commit, he kills off various townspeople, just because they did not
defend him
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Just to get back at someone, they would arrange to
have them hanged
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They believed just because someone didn’t know their commandments and didn’t make it to
church every week, or didn’t have their children baptized, they were terrible people
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Title: The Crucible Annotations
Description: Vocab, Quotes and Explanations, Summary Points, Literary Elements, Connections and Comments
Description: Vocab, Quotes and Explanations, Summary Points, Literary Elements, Connections and Comments