Act 3 - PowerPoint Presentation

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Act 3

The CrucibleSlide3

Intro

Direct

Characterization

Author simply tells the reader what a character is like

Indirect Characterization

Characters traits are released through their words/actions/appearance, their comments, or other characters reactions

Irony

Contrast between expectation and reality

Dramatic Irony

There is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows

Verbal Irony

Contrast between what a character says and what is really meantSlide4

Vocab

Contentious: arguments

Deposition: a testimony of a witness made under the oath but not in open court

Imperceptible: barely noticeable

Anonymity: the condition of being unknown

Effrontery: shameless boldness

Incredulously: skepticallySlide5

Scene 1

Opens at the Meeting House that is set up as a court room Judge Hawthorne and Martha Corey

Judge Hawthorne is the head judge

In his sixties, bitter, remorseless judge

Martha claims she is innocent

Giles says he has evidence of Putman is trying to get land

Hawthorne is accusing Martha Corey of telling fortunes and harming children

Giles is removed from the court

Giles is removed from the court by Herrick

Hale tells him to remain quiet

Will not because his wife could be hangedSlide6

Scene 2

Danforth enters the court (grave man, in 60s)

Wants to know who Giles is

Parris answers for him

Giles becomes angry at this saying he is old enough to answer for himself

When he introduces himself he mentions he owns six hundred acres and a timber

Danforth claims Giles is disrespecting the court system

Giles is dismissed and not jailed because of his age

He says that Martha is his 3

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wife and meant no harm by saying she was reading books

Hale says they should allow Giles to speak, says it is hard evidence

Francis comes in after they clear the room

Says they have been trying to be heard for 3 days

Hawthorne wants to have Francis Nurse and Giles Corey arrested for contempt

Francis mentions the girls are lying and that they have

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Scene 3

Mary Warren, Giles, Proctor, and Parris enter

Mary warren tried to avoid court by playing sick

John Proctor brought her to court

Parris tells Danforth to be warned of John because he is “mischief”

Hale defends Warren and says she needs to speak

Mary Warren will not speak

John begins to speak for her

If court begins to believe Mary Warren, Parris would be accused as part of the fraud from the beginning

Says that Mary Warren has signed a deposition

Danforth will not accept the deposition

Parris says he is there to overthrow the court

Parris still worried about his

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Scene 3

Cont

Parris says that Mary and John are lying and it shouldn’t spread through the court

Danforth questions Parris because most people would not come to the court with such a lie

Danforth talks to John about being truthful before he is willing to let him speak

Asks him if he has intentions to undermine the court

John just wants his wife freed

Parris tells of John ripping the warrant

Danforth asks John if he has seen the devil

Says no he is a gospel Christian

Tells him he doesn’t go to church

Does not respect Parris

Cheever tells how John has plowed on Sunday

Giles backs him up and tells that other Christians do so

Hale says this is not relevant

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Scene 3 Cont.

Danforth has seen so much in court that he is having trouble believing the girls are lying

John defends saying they are Christian women

Parris says look at the story of Cain and Able

How could someone with such an upright Christian life be accused of murder and witchery like Rebecca Nurse

John has been informed that Elizabeth is pregnant

Court says there is no evidence

John reassures them that she has never lied

Says that if she remains in jail another month and begins to show she will be released until the child is born

Roughly a year to live

Danforth says now he has his wish-his wife is saved

John is not satisfied

Parris says he is there to overthrow the

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Scene 3 Cont.

Danforth dismisses court so he can speak freely

Herrick speaks up saying John is a good man

John gives Danforth a petition saying that their wives are good women

91 people have signed it

Danforth says they should be summoned

Francis Nurse says he promised them no harm

Danforth says if they are Christians they should have nothing to fear

Francis nurse feels he has brought trouble to these

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Scene 4

John reminds Mary Warren that those that do good shall not have harm on them

Ironic because harm has come to the innocent so far

Giles gives his deposition- Danforth wants to know what lawyer wrote it

Giles informs him he has no legal experience but he has been in court 33 times

Always a plaintiff

Danforth’s father actually tried Giles

Corey is going against PutmanSlide12

Scene 4 Cont.

Says that Putman told his daughter to call witchery on George Jacobs

Says he did it because if he dies Jacobs land goes to the court to sell

Putman wants the land

Proof is the letter he has

But he cannot give the name because he knows the man will go to jail

They arrest him for contempt of court

It’s a hearing-not supposed to arrest

Puts court in session so they can arrest him

Danforth says those uncorrupt should not worry of the

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Scene 5

Mary Warren speaks of it being pretense again

Hale wants Danforth to listen to the court because he does not feel good about the signatures he has given

Danforth acknowledges that in regular court you bring up witnesses to help testify

But in witchery is an invisible crime

Who can be a witness?

Have to rely on those who testify (victims)

the children

Danforth is tired of hearing Parris speak

Orders Cheever to bring the girls in

Wants to know why Mary Warren changed

Did Proctor force you

She

denies

Danforth tells Mary that it is unlawful to lie in court

Either lied before or lying now which she will go to jail for

Abigail and Mary are the only ones in the courtSlide14

Scene 5 Cont.

Asks

them if there is any truth in Mary’s confession

He asks if either will change their position

They refuse

Danforth questions Abigail about her knowledge of the puppet

She denies seeing it

Says that when she worked for the Proctor’s, Elizabeth always had puppets

Cheever jumps in and says that there were no puppets in the house and Elizabeth had stated she hadn’t had any since she was a girl

That was 15 years ago

Parris suggest there may have been other puppets that we could not see

Danforth makes sure Proctor understands he is charging Abigail with murderSlide15

Scene 5 Cont.

Danforth is very harsh in his tone towards Mary

Believes she is lying

Proctors is trying to get Danforth to see that Abigail is a manipulative and immoral person, not an innocent young girl.

Proctor and Giles accuse Abigail of bearing false witness as part of a murder plot

Proctor instructs Mary to tell of the dancing in the woods

Parris claims that Proctor is trying to blacken his name

Danforth is curious about this dancing

Tells of them dancing naked

Proctor reveals that Parris is the one who found them

Parris denies they were naked

Hale backs Proctor up saying Parris told him this when he

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Scene 5 Cont.

Hawthorne begins to question Mary Warren

Mary Confesses to pretense

They ask her to pretend to faint now

She cannot do it

Prove she was pretending

She cannot do it

John asks if she can fake it

Confirms she never saw spirits

Since she cannot faint they demand she confess

Mary says she could faint because she was following the other girls and only THOUGHT she saw the spiritsSlide17

Scene 5

Cont

Danforth questions Abigail if she really does see these spirits

Claims she is mistrusted for helping point out the devil in Salem’s people

Claims that even Mr. Danforth is not safe from the devil

Abby claims she feels a wind, brought on by Mary

All the girls follow her lead

They begin to do this because they sense that Danforth is beginning to question themSlide18

Scene 6

When Abigail is crying out against Mary, John threatens her and calls her a whore

Proctor confesses to being with Abigail

Francis begs him not to confess this

Tells the court that a man will not cast away his good name in order to lie to the court

Says that when his wife realized, Elizabeth put Abigail out

Says Abigail wants to dance on Elizabeth’s grave

Says that he must see Abigail’s motives now

Abigail refuses to answer Danforth when he asks her to deny it

Abigail tries to walk out

Danforth stops her

Danforth instructs Parris to go get Elizabeth

Proctor swears her to be innocent

Elizabeth never lies

Danforth instructs both Abigail and John to turn their backs to Elizabeth

Promises God’s mercy will be needed on Abigail if Elizabeth confessesSlide19

Scene 6

Cont

Danforth questions Elizabeth about why she dismissed Abigail

Elizabeth hesitates to answers because she wants to protect John but she does not lie

Elizabeth says that Abigail’s work dissatisfied him

She says that she felt john was turning from her

Danforth pushes harder

Elizabeth says he never actually turned from her

Proctor reveals to Elizabeth that he has confessed

Proctor says she was trying to save his name

Hale jumps in: hale believes him and thinks that private vengeance is going through the court

Says that Abigail has always struck him as falseSlide20

Scene 6

Cont

Girls swear they see a yellow bird in the rafters

Claims it is Mary

Girls begin to mimic everything Abigail says

Mary says they are sporting, john threatens to whip them

John reminds Mary that God has vengeance for liars

Everyone is on Abigail/Parris side

Telling Mary to speak or she will hang

Girls are repeating Mary to make it seem like they are bewitched

Abigail claims that Mary is coming down off the beams

Proctor tries to comfort Mary and she runs from him saying he is the Devils man

Says that john is trying to get her to sign the devils book

Says he is trying to overthrow the

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Scene 6 Cont.

Hale stands up for proctor

Mary promises to hurt Abigail no more

Danforth will not hear out Rev. Hale

Danforth calls John an anti Christ and that he is using his power

John confesses that God is dead

Proctor says they are all going to burn together

Danforth orders the marshal to take John and Giles to the jail

John says that Danforth is pulling down heaven and raising up a whore

Hale quits the court

Danforth is furious with HaleSlide22

Act 3 Take

Away’s

The desperate attempt by Giles, Proctor, and Francis to save their wives exposes the extent to which the trials have become about specific individuals and institutions struggling to maintain power and authority.

Deputy Governor Danforth and Judge

Hathorne

do not want to admit publicly that they were deceived by a bunch of young women and girls

Parris does not want the trials to end as a fraud because the scandal of having a lying daughter and niece would end his career in Salem

In the witch trials, guilt need not be proven by hard evidence, and signing a deposition attesting to the good character of the accused is enough to put oneself under the same suspicion of guilt

Danforth and

Hathorne

have the authority to cast any questions put to them as an attack on the court.

Much of Act III has to do with determining who will define innocence and guilt

Too many reputations are at stake, and Proctor’s revelation comes too late to stop the avalanche.