The Crucible
Topics of discussion
1. As a minister, Reverend Parris is supposed to devote to welfare of Salem. Do you think he was able to succeed in doing so? Was he an effective minister? What's his motivations and concern?
2. Do you think how Abigail and Elizabeth feel toward John Proctor is different? If so, how are they different?What are the similarities?
3. When John Proctor decides to confess falsely to avoid death, he later changes his mind by saying the "I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. ". What is the shred of goodness that John discovers?
4. Why do you think Danforth, Hathorne and other authorities resisted to believing that Abigail and other girls are lying? Do you think they simply pretended to not know?
5. When Elizabeth Proctor was taken to Jail at the end of Act 2, John Proctor says that "We are only what we always were, but naked now". How do you interpret his saying?