1. Each group will post, in the comments
below, an analysis about your character(s)
2. You should describe the physical characteristics, temperament, social standing, important relationships, and, moral character from Act II.
3. Include at least three direct quotes and explain each quote's significance in understanding the character.. Note that the quotes may or may not be from the character but from another character who is either speaking to her/him or about her/him.
4. All members of your group are responsible for the accuracy and thoroughness of the character analysis, so I encourage all students to add, amend, and engage in the conversations we continue on this blog for Act II.
5. Since we have studied the Puritan beliefs and culture, you should include comments about your character within that cultural context, for example, how the Puritan tenets have worked for the later generations of Puritans and, is the theocratic government working to improve the social fabric of their lives, or not..
2. You should describe the physical characteristics, temperament, social standing, important relationships, and, moral character from Act II.
3. Include at least three direct quotes and explain each quote's significance in understanding the character.. Note that the quotes may or may not be from the character but from another character who is either speaking to her/him or about her/him.
4. All members of your group are responsible for the accuracy and thoroughness of the character analysis, so I encourage all students to add, amend, and engage in the conversations we continue on this blog for Act II.
5. Since we have studied the Puritan beliefs and culture, you should include comments about your character within that cultural context, for example, how the Puritan tenets have worked for the later generations of Puritans and, is the theocratic government working to improve the social fabric of their lives, or not..
Note: At this point all of you should contribute and post toward your group's analysis
Abigail: In her nightgown with a wrap over her head. She seems glad that Proctor asked to see her but she is also troubled. People come from all over to see her, but she does not like it any more. She still has hope that she and John will get back together and is still manipulative.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Aye, they do. But i have only lewd looks from the boys." (pg.149)
This is important because Abby is saying yes boys do come to see me, but all i get are profane looks for them and i cant take it any more.
Proctor: out working the farm. He apears kinda glum and scences some disapointment from his wife. Though he gets angry with his wife he still wants to please her and defends her.
Quote: "'You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore. I have forgot Abigail, and -'" Act 2, Scene 1, pg. 52
Nia. It seems at this point that while Abigail becomes more manipulative and vengeful, Proctor grows more conflicted about his ability to please Elizabeth, and do the right thing in regard to Abigail. Tough place for the protagonist in this Act.
DeleteKarissa Leonor, Tristan Gilmore, Ian Plocky, Elijah Popish, Johnathan Fannaro, Hien Luong,
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Along with all the other comments and posts from Act 1:
Abigail:
-Becoming more like a villain
-has achieved more power
-needle was found in her abdomen
-Very mischievous
-accused by Elizabeth of witchcraft
-Abigail later accused Elizabeth of witchcraft
- John Proctor says "We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!" showing how Abigail, being one of those "crazy children" are increasing in power.
Reverend Parris:
-Held the dinner where Cheever said Abigail had her little fit at
- Does not appear in Act 2, however still holds characteristics discovered in Act 1.
- Being someone that seeks power and reputation, his reputation and power could now be in the hands of Abigail, as she has appeared to be evil and deceiving.
-Cheever says "The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris's house tonight, and without a word nor warnin' she falls to the floor." (74). This is where Cheever describes the incident that took place at the Parris's house.
Yes. However, you've probably mistyped that Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft----not that she is accused by her
Deleteabigail is also very jealous of other around proctor as well
DeleteDevi Kohli
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Rev. Hale:
"He is different now-drawn a little, and there is a quality of deference, even of guilt, about his manner now." (pg. 59)
In Act 2, Rev. Hale seems to be close to most of his people. That night he went to many houses to tell each family whether they were charged. He seems very comfortable and calm when telling the Proctors that Elizabeth is charged. However, when Elizabeth was taken by Cheever, he remains silent and does not help John in defending Elizabeth. I feel that the reason he did not say anything was to not look bad and be charged for helping the guilty.
Hale: "Good, then. 'He makes himself more comfortable.' In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day... twenty-six times in seventeen months, sir." (pg. 61)
Here Rev. Hale seems to drift from the charges of Elizabeth and question John about him not coming to church. (Many Puritans, at that time, would worry about other people's problem and be noisy about their situations). Here Rev. Hale does the same by questioning John. The reason he may be asking John, is because of future charges against this family.
Devi, Hale could also have been told by Rev Parris that Proctor did not attend church regularly. Hale questions both Elizabeth and John before she is taken under arrest by Cheever.
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she is now looked as the "savior" of Salem
She will do anything to get vengeance upon Elizabeth in order to get Proctor back.
Parris:
not much was said about him and Ian stated all that was known about him in Act 2.
Quote: "If she is innocent! Why... always holy now?"
This is a complaint to the fact that Abigail is the hero of Salem and everyone believes her even though she is lying, just because she is the accuser.
Proctor makes that complaint and it's here that he begins to speak out against Abigail and the girls, as well as the judges who believe them.
DeleteJenny Vo. part of group 4
ReplyDeleteAbigial Williams
-has become more like a villian
-acusses Goody Proctor of trying to kill her with a needle
-admitts that boys come to see her.
-wants to be John Proctors wife
-is happy that Goody Proctor is in trial
-still does not confess about why she drank the blood charm.
quote: While Proctor is asking Abigail if boys come to see her, she replies, "Aye, they do. But i have only lewd looks from the boys." (149). Ths quotes is important because it hsows that Abigail is lseeing other boys and it may foreshadow that she will become a stripper of a prostitute.
quote: "I ought to be given Godly loooks when i suffer for them as I do." (149). This quote is important because it shows the reader that she knows that she has beauty.
-quote: when she finds out that Mary Warren told on her, "a wildness stirs in her, a child is standing here who is unutterably frustrated, denied her wish, but she is still grasping for her wits" (151). This is imporant for the characterization of Abigail because it shows that she gets angry really quick and that she is evil. this stage diretion obviously shows what kind of person she is by holding in her envy that she really wants to lets out.
John Proctor
-goes and visits Abigail
-would do anything to get his wife out of jail
-his wife accuses him for still having feeling for Abigail
-gets angry at his wife for asking him a question about Salem
-still a sinner
-commanding
-will not admitt that he loves Abigail more than his own wife
-quote: "angering. I know I cannot keep it. I say I will think on it!" This quote is important because it shows the kind of person that John Proctor really is. He gets mad really easily and has no patience.
quotes" stage directing, "with a violent undertone. You doubt me right?" This quote shows how violent he can get and that he always thinks he is right and whats things his way.
quote: Abigail said, "i know you, John- you are this momentsigning secret hallelujahs that your wife will hang!" (152). This line is very important because Abby knows that John loves her and that if Elizabeth was gone they would be together. But John will not admitt that he wants his wife dead so he can be with Abby.
Jenny, while the Proctor quotes do show a quick, violent temper, it also reveals a deep passion, a quality which works for him and against him---especially according to his own moral standards
DeleteSal Perez, Kylie Yanno, Lexie Cruz, Jenny Le, Group #3
ReplyDeleteRebecca Nurse:
-remains the same into Act II (retains her previously described traits from Act I)
-"Proctor, to Francis: Rebecca's in the jail!"
-"Francis, with a mocking, half-hearted laugh: For murder, she's charged! Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies." What am I to do, Mr. Hale?"
-"Hale, turns from Francis, deeply troubled, then: Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning. Let you rest upon the justice of the court: the court will send her home, I know it."
*The significance of this quote shows that Rebecca Nurse
believes she does not deserve to be accused of
witchcraft. But although she denies her accusation, she
is still prosecuted and taken to jail.
Giles Corey:
-possesses many of the same traits as before in Act I
-"And yet silent, minister? It is fraud, you know it is fraud! What keeps you, man?"
-"Giles: That blood mongrel Walcott charge her. Y'see, he buy a pig of my wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after. So he come dancin' in for his money back. So my Martha, she says to him, 'Walcott, if you haven't the wit to feed a pig properly, you'll not live to own many,' she says. Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch them with her books!"
-"Giles: It's a pity, Ezekiel, that an honest tailor might have gone to Heaven must burn in Hell. You'll burn for this do you know it?"
*These passages show a different personality of Giles
Corey; one that is more confident and not afraid to do
what he feels is right.
Sal, yes, Giles is growing more confident about what is right, however, Hale reveals his naïveté in believing in the court's juris prudence to see the truth when Rebecca is arrested.
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