Assignment A: Written Work on Monologue #1 (DUE NOVEMBER 6 at 2:00 p.m.)

Note: This should be typed. If you want to work on the form itself, download the copy on Blackboard (Assignments page) and print or send to me as an attachment: kbethea@pvcc.edu.

Name of play

Playwright

About the monologue selection: (Terms below are from the text Acting One, by Robert Cohen)

Monologue character (name)

- John Proctor

Goal (Use the following construction: “I want to (must) do _______________________”

- I want to make Elizabeth look for the goodness in me.

Audience (Other)

- Audience is the teacher and other classmates

Tactic(s)

- Influence Elizabeth to stop judging John.

Expectation

- Elizabeth might stop judging John, but it might come at a high cost (marriage?).

Does your character learn/change during the monologue? If not—why not? If so—how?

- Goes from calm, to angry, back to serious calm. Because John is frustrated with Elizabeth.

About the play and your character’s role in the play:

Brief synopsis (try to summarize it in a couple of sentences or so)

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Where in the play (not physical or geographical location) does the monologue occur?

- Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693

How does your character learn/change during the play?

- In the end, John dies to stay true to himself. There is a lot of self discovery and attempts to do the right thing along the way.

How does your character affect the outcome of the play/other characters?

- As the main protagonist, John is central to shaping the events of the entire play.

What important given circumstances do you need to keep in mind? (List 3 or 4.)

- The time period.

- How upset John is over the situation.

- Woman still didn't have the same rights as men.

Include a short dialogue (your character and another character) that represents your character’s relationship/interaction with others (two to four speeches should be enough).

- PROCTOR, breathless and in agony: It [Abigail] is a whore!DANFORTH, dumfounded: You charge-?ABIGAIL: Mr. Danforth, he is lying!PROCTOR: Mark her! Now she'll suck a scream to stab me with but-DANFORTH: You will prove this! This will not pass!PROCTOR, trembling, his life collapsing about him: I have known her, sir. I have known her.DANFORTH: You-you are a lecher?FRANCIS, horrified: John, you cannot say such a – PROCTOR: Oh, Francis, I wish you had some evil in you that you might know me. To Danforth: A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.DANFORTH, dumfounded: In-in what time? In what place?PROCTOR, his voice about to break, and his shame great: In the proper place-where my beasts are bedded. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me in my house, sir. He has to clamp his jaw to keep from weeping. A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you-see her what she is. My wife, my dear good wife, took this girl soon after, sir, and put her out on the highroad. And being what she is, a lump of vanity, sir- He is being overcome. Excellency, forgive me, forgive me. Angrily against himself, he turns away from the Governor for a moment. Then, as though to cry out is his only means of speech left: She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it now. III.374-384

Other information you would like to include:

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