The Crucible

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As we’ve read

The Crucible,

you have traced the crucibles of John

Proctor, John Hale, and Mary

Warren. Now, you’re going to create a multi-genre masterpiece incorporating that evidence, as well as evidence of your general understanding of the play. (Note:

A genre is a type, so your project will include different types of writing.)

What might the graffiti on the walls of the girls’ bathroom in

Salem say? Think of the conflict among the girls, the girls’ love interests (well, at least one of the girls), and anything else involving the girls and the events in Salem. Include at least 10 pieces of graffiti that accurately and imaginatively reflect the events of The Crucible. Make this LOOK like graffiti painted or scribbled on a bathroom wall. Don’t just type your messages the traditional way. Be appropriate!

Reverend Hale, John Proctor, and Mary Warren all endure crucibles, or harsh tests of character. Their internal conflict torment them, consume them, change them.

Write at least five diary entries from the point of view of each of these people. Be sure that the entries reflect their inner thoughts as well as the evolution of their characters (an evolution is a change from beginning to end) as they endure their harsh trials. Each diary entry must include the actual words that they spoke in the play (see the notes you took on their crucibles). Since you are writing from the point of view of Hale, Proctor, and Mary, you will be showing me an inner life that may not have been obvious in the play, so you will have to imagine what they must have been thinking and feeling. Use your imaginations, but be sure you’re staying true to the play. Use vivid language and details!!!!

Partial Example of Diary Entry for Elizabeth:

July 14, 1692

Dear Diary,

Horror! Calamity! Catastrophe! I have rung John’s doom today! I might as well have woven the noose and slipped it around his neck! Cheever brought me from the jail into the courtroom, and I thought the time had come for me to mount the gibbet, even though the tiny life still grows inside of me.

Those so-called Christian judges cannot be trusted! As I approached

Danforth’s bench, which seemed to take a thousand years, I saw my dear John’s back on my right—and that harlot Abigail’s on my left. And that’s when I began to backslide right…into…Hell!

Danforth asked my why I had dismissed Abigail from our services. I didn’t know what he knew, and I didn’t know why he was asking. Had Abigail told the court that she and John had an affair? Were they trying to get me to verify the adultery so they could throw him in the jail for that crime? What devilishness was Abigail up to now? I had never, ever lied in my entire life! Why, oh why, when it counted more than all the stars in the midnight sky, did I do it then?! “To your knowledge, is your husband a lecher?” Danforth demanded in that stern, menacing voice of his. I looked to John for some sort of sign, but

Danforth would have none of that. “No,” I whispered, lying for the first time—

EVER!! Oh, I was only trying to save my husband in a world gone completely mad, completely insane, completely wickedly wicked! John spun around and told me that he had confessed, and it was then that I realized that my lie had just condemned him! Oh, God! Please deliver me from this fallen, evil world!

Think of a word that summarizes a dominant theme in

The

Crucible

(hysteria, vengeance, lies, character, etc.) Personify that theme and write a poem about it as it is portrayed in the play. Include a large image that somehow illustrates the theme (from the Internet or your own photos) and set it as the poem’s background. The image should be large, since it works in conjunction with the poem. Be sure that your use of language is vivid!!!

Select two of the characters in

The Crucible

and write a two-voice poem for them. Be sure your poem contains vivid language and accurately reflects the personalities of the characters and events of the play.

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