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 notwhy not? If sohow?
- Goes from calm, to angry, back to serious calm. Because John is frustrated with Elizabeth.

About the play and your characters role in the play:

Brief synopsis (try to summarize it in a couple of sentences or so)
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 characters
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 butDANFORTH: 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 placewhere 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

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