The Crucible Analysis Worksheet

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📖 Extract Analysis

Read the following extract from Act II of The Crucible, where John and Elizabeth Proctor discuss Abigail Williams:

ELIZABETH: John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd, you said. Now you—

PROCTOR: I'll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH: John, I am only—

PROCTOR: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you're not, you're not, and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

ELIZABETH: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John, only somewhat bewildered.

🔍 Inference and Analysis Questions

1. What can you infer about John Proctor's feelings towards his wife's suspicions? (2 marks)

2. What does Elizabeth mean when she says "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you"? (2 marks)

3. Based on this extract, what do you think John Proctor has confessed to Elizabeth? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. (3 marks)

4. How does Miller use dialogue to reveal the tension in the Proctors' marriage? Give two examples from the extract. (3 marks)

🔮 Prediction and Character Analysis

5. Predict what might happen to the Proctors' relationship as the play progresses. Consider the unresolved tension shown in this extract. (5 marks)

6. Analyse how John Proctor's character is presented in this extract. Consider his emotions, motivations, and internal conflict. (5 marks)

7. Based on Elizabeth's final speech, what can you infer about her understanding of her husband's guilt? How might this affect their future interactions? (5 marks)