Act 1 Blog Questions
1. Which character or characters arouse your sympathy the most? Give reasons for your answer.
2. What is the overall atmosphere or mood of Act 1? What techniques does Miller use to create this atmosphere?
3. Is Miller’s portrayal of teenage girls and their behavior believable? Why or why not?
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1.Titbua is a character that I feel the most sympathy for because she was beat just becuase she was blamed for witchcraft when it wasnt really all her.
ReplyDelete2.I think the over all mood is worried becuase of all the people that are worried and scared of all the witchcraft going on. I also think becuase of the fact that the girls wont wake up so it has everyone worried.
3.I think it is believeable because you dont know who is putting no sense in their heads and then they go out and have no idea what they are doing if it is witchcraft or anything
1. Titjuba, because she wasnt doing anything wrong. they were just messing around in the woods. she didnt mean anything by it, and she only confessed to have writing in the devils book and for practicing witch craft so revrund parris would stop beating her and so that she wouldnt have further punishment.
ReplyDelete2. act one is full of drama. he uses the girls crying and the revrund screaming and the town holding the meeting on the account of the girls that can not wake and to tell everyone the devil is in salem.
3. yes i think the behavior of the tennage girls is beleivable, because teenage girls are always wanting people to love them and causing drama about everything.
1. Sarah Goody because she is going to be hanged for no reason.
ReplyDelete2. The Mood of Act 1 is more like a drama. He uses dramatic details and different kinds of sentences.
3. Yes because girls will do anything to get out of trouble and even blame others.
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1. Elizabeth, because she has not done anything wrong she was just accused because Abagail wants to be with John Proctor. I also feel sympathy for her because of John and Abagail's affair. This puts more pressure on her.
ReplyDelete1. Elizabeth and John Proctor arouse my sympathy the most because they have no involvment in the witchcraft, but yet they are being accused because abigial wants John all to herself, and now shes trying to kill the woman that John loves.
ReplyDelete2. The overall atmosphere is kind of the begining of all the mess. Where all the girls start to come out, and accuse everyone, where stuff if about to start.
3. The portrayal of the teenage girls and their behavior is not believeable, becuase i dont understand how girls could be that mean to accuse others of witchcraft and try and ruin a marriage just because abigial wants to have John again.
2. I think tha Act 1 is full of drama. Miller uses the girls not being able to wake, Abagail threatning all of the girls not to tell on her, and there is so drama between Abagail and John.
ReplyDelete1. In general the innocents who are accused and prosecuted for witchcraft garner the most sympathy from me.
ReplyDelete2. I think the atmosphere was that of growing tension and foreboding at the coming hysteria.
3.I think it is believable, teenaged girls do some craaaaaaaaazy things.
1. Tituba. Tituba is just a humble servent and just did the girls a faor by going out into the woods to dance and help make harmless love spells. She didnt put names in the Devil's book. Shge only confessed so she would stop getting beaten.
ReplyDeletelies was how Miller made it so dramatic.2. Act1's mood is full of drama. The girls not waking and accussing with screams and devil
3. Yes, teenage girls are always full of drama. They use whateever and go to all cost to get attention and to get themselves out of trouble
1.) The character that I have the most sympathy for would have to be elizabeth. she's a good person but she is being accused of witchcraft just beacuse she's with john and abigail is jealous. she has done absolutly nothing wrong.
ReplyDelete2.) I think the mood of act one is dramatic, because we have dramtic little girls runing all over the woods dancing and casting spells. just full of drama.
3.)I think that millers portrayal of teenage girls can be believable and can't be believable. yes many girls do act like that but many girls also do not act like that. I think the girls in this book were begging for attention and thats why they were acting like that.
1. I feel the most sympathy towards Tituba. She was beaten because the girls accused her and she had to confess to witchcraft to save her life.
ReplyDelete2. The mood in act 1 is dark. Alot of really creepy stuff happens, like Abigail drinking the blood and the two little girls that won't wake up.
3. I think Miller did a good job portraying how teenage girls act. Their behaviors are realistic, because most teenage girls are dramatic and crazy.
1.I have more sympathy towards Elizabeth Proctor because she didnt do anything to be accusedd fo witchery she seemed like she is a nice good christian woman. 2.The mood in act one is judgemental because every one is judgeing everyone else of being a witch. 3. I think Miller did a great job at portraying the girls in act one because girls are always over exsadurating what they are saying there always makeing thigs seem worse then they really are.
ReplyDelete1. I give the most sympathy towards Elizabeth because her husband had an affair and now she is suffering by being accused of witchcraft by the women that is in love with her husband.
ReplyDelete2. I think the entire mood is scared because every one in the whole town in scared because they dont know who around them could really be a witch and it scares them to think they might even be accused.
ReplyDelete3. Yes, because you never know what teenage girls might do. The girls are wanting attention so they would do anything for it so i believe what miller says.