How has Reverend Hale changed in Act 2?
Hale realizes the evil nature the court has taken. Once he realizes that the girls are lying and that there never was any real evidence of witch craft, he removes himself from the court. He tests Proctor and Elizabeth because at that time he was still an agent of the court.
What is Reverend Hale’s purpose?
Reverend Hale’s purpose in returning to Salem is to speak with the condemned prisoners and convince them that they should give false confessions rather than martyr themselves. He chooses to do this because he is tormented by guilt.
How would you account for the way Reverend Hale has changed since the beginning of the play?
4)How would you account the way Reverend Hale has changed since the beginning of the play? He changes because by seeing that he has killed innocent people he losses his fate in the law and starts to believe in god.
What changes do we see in Reverend Parris?
Parris becomes more insecure and paranoid as the play wares on. He has been instrumental in these witch trials by spreading gossip and accusing innocent people for his own benefit. Parris had many detractors from the beginning. His selfishness and favoritism rubbed men like Proctor the wrong way.
What does Reverend Parris do in Act 4?
In act 4, Reverend Parris immediately reveals that he is upset at discovering that Abigail and Mercy Lewis have stolen thirty-one pounds from his lock box and fled Salem. He comes to the court visibly shaken and upset and reports to Danforth that his niece Abigail and Mercy Lewis have run away.
What happened in the crucible Act 4?
This act takes place in a jail cell in Salem. Marshal Herrick wakes up the occupants, Sarah Good and Tituba, to move them to a different cell. The two women speak of their plans to fly away to Barbados after the Devil comes for them and transforms them into bluebirds.
What does Elizabeth do to protect John?
Proctor tells of his affair with Abigail and that is why she was fired. What does Elizabeth do to protect John Proctor’s name? She takes the side of the girls, accusing John of forcing her to sign the devil’s book.
How does Elizabeth feel about Abigail?
Elizabeth Proctor feels antagonistic toward her former servant Abigail, who had an affair with her husband, calling her “something soiled.” Elizabeth, who is morally upright and a bit cold, won’t sit near Abigail at church.
How does Elizabeth feel about Proctor wishing to confess to save his life?
She is shocked/disappointed. She’s a good Christian women because she will not confess to it. John doesn’t want his confession posted on the church door. Why?
Why does John tell Elizabeth that the food is well seasoned?
The vulnerability and self-sacrifice of the rabbit prefigures Elizabeth’s willingness to go against her own nature and lie in court (Act Three) when Danforth questions her regarding John’s “lechery.” And although John secretly adds salt to Elizabeth’s stew, implying its blandness, he compliments her at the table.
What happened at the end of Act 2 in the crucible?
They find a needle in the doll Mary gave Elizabeth that corresponds to the needle that Elizabeth’s familiar spirit supposedly used to stab Abigail. Elizabeth goes with them peacefully after realizing she can’t prove her innocence. John angrily insists that Mary must tell the court Abigail is lying.
How is Reverend Hale characterized?
John Hale, the intellectual, naïve witch-hunter, enters the play in Act I when Parris summons him to examine his daughter, Betty. In an extended commentary on Hale in Act I, Miller describes him as “a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. As his belief in witchcraft falters, so does his faith in the law.
Why did Reverend Hale quit the court?
At the end of Act 3, Reverend Hale quits the court in Salem out of frustration because he sees that irrationality and hysteria have taken over the proceedings. However, in Act 4, we learn that he has returned to Salem to speak with the prisoners and convince them to confess.
Who does Reverend Hale visit in Act 2?
John Proctor’s
What does Elizabeth think of Abigail?
Readers first encounter Elizabeth through the words of Abigail, who describes Elizabeth as a “bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman.” When Elizabeth enters the action of the play in the second act, we immediately see that Abigail is the liar: Elizabeth is anything but bitter and sniveling.
Did Abigail kill Elizabeth?
Abigail was drinking blood in attempts to kill John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth. This action was an absolutely blatant example of Abigail’s participation in “witchcraft.” She was drinking a charm made by Tituba to try and kill Goody Proctor in hopes to continue on with the affair and get John Proctor all to herself.
Why can’t Mary faint when asked by the court?
She says that in the courtroom, all of the girls were screaming, going into hysterics, and that the judges believed them, and she just got caught up in the drama, and that is what heightened her emotions and enabled her to faint there.