What happens when people criticize the court proceedings?

2. What character traits can you infer about Rev. Parris in the following passage:


“I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.”


3. Why does Tituba confess to witchcraft?


4. How does Elizabeth attempt to save her husband’s reputation? Why is her action ironic?


5. What conflict does John Proctor face at the end of the play?


6. How has the setting changed by the end of the play?


7. How is it ironic when John Proctor cannot remember one of the Ten Commandments?


8. Why does John Proctor dislikes Reverend Hale?


these questions are from the story The Crucible

What happens when people criticize the court proceedings?
5.


At this point, Proctor faces a new dilemma and wrestles with his conscience over whether to save himself from the gallows with a confession to a sin that he did not commit. The judges and Hale almost convince him to do so, but in the end, he cannot bring himself to sign his confession. Such an action would dishonor his fellow prisoners, who are steadfastly refusing to make false confessions; more important, he realizes that his own soul, his honor, and his honesty are worth more than a cowardly escape from the gallows. He dies and, in doing so, feels that he has finally purged his guilt for his failure to stop the trials when he had the chance. As his wife says, “he have his goodness now.”


7.


Proctor cannot remember the commandment he himself has broken.


Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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