There is a great deal of irony in this act. Discuss two
ironic situations or remarks that occur. Provide details about the character(s)
and situation to support your examples.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
The Crucible Act Two
Respond to the following prompt in a minimum of 200 words. You must also reply to at least two classmates' posts. All posts and replies should be thoughtful, well-supported, and clearly written in complete sentences. Proofread before submitting. Posts and replies due by November 15.
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There is loads of irony in Act Two, and a lot of it, if not all, involves Proctor. He indeed had an affair with Abigail when she worked for Elizabeth and himself. Proctor says to Elizabeth “I’ll not have your suspicion anymore!” To which Elizabeth replies “I have no-“ Proctor: “I’ll not have it!” Elizabeth: “Then let you not earn it.” Proctor: “You doubt me yet?” Proctor puts so much emphasize on the trust he wants Elizabeth to believe that you’d almost be under the illusion that Proctor is a loyal, faithful man. He admits to Elizabeth that the accusations of witchcraft were “black mischief.” Elizabeth attempts to get John to tell the courts it’s fraud; he says he will “think on it,” and Elizabeth says, “John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.” Later in the story, you will see how this is ironic… Abigail is the bane of John’s existence.
ReplyDeleteIn the second act of the Crucible Abigail attempts to have Elizabeth executed for witchcraft and voodoo, she had Mary Warren leave a doll with a needle pricked in it for the law force to find when they searched the Proctor's house. Which ironically only brings Proctor and Elizabeth closer. When Elizabeth was taken away he yelled out to her, "I will fall like an ocean on that court. Fear nothing, Elizabeth.".
ReplyDeleteAnother scene that had irony was when Reverend Hale comes into the Proctor's house and asks Proctor to say his ten commandments, and he can only come up with nine. Elizabeth reminded him of the one he forgot. The one he missed? Adultery. How is that ironic? Both Proctor and Elizabeth know that Proctor had sex with Abigail, he committed adultery.
I had a theory about your second example actually, but i'll get to that in a moment.
DeleteFirstly, a good reply. As you say, Abigail's attempts to have Elizabeth killed and to drive them apart only ends up making Proctor hate Abby even worse. Then again, Abby SHOULD be hated, because she's seriously quite a jerk.
Now on to my theory. I have this theory that he didn't FORGET the last one, he just didn't want to say it out loud because of shame. Could be a mistake though. I dunno.
I don't think that it was because of shame, that would be too obvious. I honestly think he didn't really know the ten commandments that well and it just so happened that adultery was the one that totally slipped his mind because he was more than likely attempting to push it deep into his subconscious in order to forget about the things he did to and with Abigail. He was a pimp.
DeleteJessica is right! It wasn't shame, he just forgot it because it was the one he had committed.
DeleteOne of the major examples of irony in this chapter is the discussion of when Elizabeth says, "Do as you wish then". This is ironic to me because at this point dear Mr. Proctor has realized that he no longer enjoys cheating on her, if ever he did. I find it ironic that when she finally loses faith in him, he's trying to fix these mistakes he once made. Another good example is when Proctor is, "Holding back condemnation of her".She's not really doing anything wrong, and he shouldn't be so angry at her over nothing.
ReplyDeleteI think he wanted to uphold his power over her by making it seem as though he has been nothing but faithful and she's being crazy for even thinking such a thing. When people do things that they know to be wrong they do pretty much whatever they can to act as though they haven't done anything wrong and they turn into brutes. They don't know how to act normal without making it obvious they're trying to act "normal," so it just makes it so much more apparent that something's up.
DeleteThe entirety of the play is a sick irony, really. But within Act Two specifically we get to the really juicy stuff. Accusations of witch craft, people skimming over the book, late work, falling grades. Scandalous. But yeah, irony. Issa pretty cool thing I guess. It can be, like, super trippy and deep like "Woah man I've never thought about it like that before." because something happens that you don't expect or anticipate and its like wow man thats off the wall.
ReplyDeleteikr. once i dropped a ball on the ground and it bunced back up it was so iroinic. ; )
DeleteI am not opposed to your using humor in your entries however you must provide examples/quotes from the text to support your claims on this blog.
DeleteAll of you need to post two replies. Also, if you all could band together and get Timira in on this blog, that would be great. She is reading The Crucible too!
ReplyDeleteOne more thing. All of you need to submit your vocabulary worksheet. That was due on Friday.
ReplyDeleteTimira is now apart of the blog! In Act two Abby wants to bring Elizabeth and Proctor apart because she is like a school girl who just wants everything to go her way and it just isn't. She frames Elizabeth for witchcraft and voodoo but ironically, it just brings Elizabeth and the Proctor more closer to each other. Abby is nothing but a finger pointer! She likes putting blame on other.
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