Act 3, p.103-105ĭanforth: Do you confess this power! Speak!Ībigail: She’s going to come down! She’s walking the beam! Mary Warren can still save Proctor and all the others accused, but Abigail will stop at nothing to save her own skin: Proctor has confessed his affair with Abigail, but Elizabeth has lied to defend him. This is the moment where the authority of the court and the validity of the trial hangs on the testimony of Mary Warren against Abigail. We’ll look at an extract from Act 3 (pages 103-105 in the 2000 Penguin Classic edition). Now let’s have a look at a passage from The Crucible and analyse it in terms of the module requirements. Step-by-step: How to analyse a passage from The Crucible Okay, now let’s look at a process for analysing The Crucible and the things you need to think about and how you should approach them. If you want to learn more about the Common Module, read our Year 12 Study Guide article.
Furthermore, you need to take into consideration how The Crucible directly reflects historical figures and places while also alluding to Miller and his contemporaries in the 1950s.Įxactly what you focus on in your responses and presentations will be dependent on the question you are presented with. You then want to think about how the text you are studying, in this case, The Crucible, demonstrates a particular type of storytelling: using historical events as an allegory for contemporary events (Miller is doing something that Shakespeare had done extensively). In particular, you want to look at how the behaviour of the characters demonstrates how human behaviour and motivations is full of “anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies.” In addition, you need to explore how the text represents the emotions and emotional experiences of the characters within the text. You need to analyse how the text represents an individual experience and then contrast this to a collective or community experience. They may also consider the role of storytelling throughout time to express and reflect particular lives and cultures.” Students explore how texts may give insight into the anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations, inviting the responder to see the world differently, to challenge assumptions, ignite new ideas or reflect personally. They examine how texts represent human qualities and emotions associated with, or arising from, these experiences. “In this common module students deepen their understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences.
Let’s look at the key sections of the Common Module Rubric:Ĭommon Module: Texts and Human Experiences The Crucible – Textual Analysis: What is the Common Module?įirst, before you start analysing the text, you need to understand the module.
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