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The Crucible

The Crucible . Starter – What might be some of the issues with writing a play script? Think about: How do you make the speech accurate whilst still being entertaining for an audience?. Learning Objective – to explore the opening of ‘The Crucible’ .

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The Crucible

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  1. The Crucible Starter – What might be some of the issues with writing a play script? Think about: How do you make the speech accurate whilst still being entertaining for an audience? Learning Objective – to explore the opening of ‘The Crucible’

  2. Miller wanted his audience to be drawn into the world he created, but felt that archaic speech of the period might not be suitable. Why might he think that? Miller developed his own poetic language for the play, based on the language he had read in Salem documents. He wanted to make his audience feel that they were witnessing events from an earlier time, yet not wanting to make the dialogue incomprehensible he devised a form of speech for his characters that blended into present-day speech and earlier vocabulary and syntax. Let’s watch out for this …

  3. The Crucible What does this mean? A Crucible – subjects items to great heat in order to purify their nature.

  4. Let’s read the opening together … What do we learn about him through his speech? Reverend Parris On the surface, Parris appears to be an anxious, worried father. However, if you look closely at his language, Miller is showing him as a character who is mostly concerned his reputation rather than the welfare of his daughter and her friends. Parris’ anxiety about the insecurity of his office begins to reveal what theme of the play? The extent to which conflict divides the Salem community – the idea of guilt by association. An individual must fear that the sins of his/her friends will taint his/her name.

  5. Abigail Williams He is bending to kneel again when his niece, Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters – a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety. What do we learn about her? Who does Abigail dislike?

  6. Homework (due on Wednesday) Write two paragraphs in response to the following question: Explore the ways in which Arthur Miller uses literary, linguistic and rhetorical devices and conventions to create specific dramatic effects to present the relationship between Reverend Parris and Abigail in the opening of the play. Look back at your notes from last lesson to help …

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