I'm dissapointed I didn't leave more time for us to discuss The Crucible's ending. I love it and am always sad it's over. I thought we brought up some great points today about the appendix, today's judicial system, Proctor's confession, Miller's use of the word "cannot", the motif of names, Giles's death, and many others. Here are some questions I was thinking about as I listened and pondered today...
Why did the play end by focusing on Proctor and Elizabeth and completely leave out, for example, any mention of Abigail and the girls, our other prominent characters in the text?
I love Melaine's question about departures from reality, and am particularly wondering about that in relation to that "echoes down the corridor" snippet following Act IV. I'm excited to do some more researching about this idea. One particular facet that stuck out to me is the detail Miller references as to Elizabeth's future marriage. I can't decide if/ how this changes my thinking about her.
I was also thinking about the idea of heroism and who the hero of The Crucible is, if it has a hero at all. I've been talking about this a lot with one of my other classes so it's been on my mind...
Thoughts about these questions? What thinking did our discussion and the end of the play inspire for you?
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