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The Crucible Act IV Quiz:

1. As we know "The Crucible" has several themes. One already being mentioned how fear and shame are reflected on the characters. In Act IV of "The Crucible" examples of destructive powers such as guilt and revenge are shown in effect on characters on being John Proctor. During the play all he feels is the guilt eating away at him for having his affair with Abigail Williams. Soon he realizes that Abigial's madness with accusing everyone and anyone that she must be stop. Being the good man he is, he decides to stop concerning so much on his reputation and is more concerned with his personal integrity. So he confesses adultry, and the public realizes the hysteria going on is not right and overthrow the court of Salem. Along with guilt being a destructive power, revenge is shown in effect to characters of the play, one being Abigail Williams. During Act I of "The Crucible" she warned all of the girls that were in the forest dancing not to tell a single soul of what they were doing. Mary Warren being a frightened girl cannot hold up all the pressure anymore that Procter has built on her and she finally tells the court the truth behind Abigails lies. Abigail is so inferiated, she tries to get revenge on Mary Warren. While in court she makes pretense actions about the devil being put upon her by Mary Warren. Mary Warrens pleads to the court she had nothing to do with the devil and explains to them it is all pretense and that Abigail is simply making this whole deal up.

2. An extened metaphor is a comparison that is developed throughout a literary work. As Author Miller showed imagery of the seventeeth-century witch hunt in Salem buids a comparison to the events in 1950, the fear of communism. In the twenty-first century we inhabit extened metaphor, one of them going on this day present. As we all know the Swine Flu is going around. Even though this flu is similar to the ordinary flu everyone is making an epidemic out of it. Why? No one really cared about the flu, all you were supposed to do was take medicine and rest. Now with the swine flu all sorts of precautions are being made. If you have any symptoms of the swine you are taken out of school, and if you have the swine flu and it is diagnosed you are kept out of school until you are well enough to come back. Adults are also concerning whether or not to get the swine flu shot due to controversy of what the shot/vaccine actually does and what is in it. Another example of an extended metaphor is terrorism. Ever since *9-11* the government has made airlines,high quality business more secure. The government now makes going onto airlines a hastle. You are to go through multiple secure checks and are only aloud certain items on the airlines. They check for any kind of weapon, drugs, illegal substances, etc. Why didnt the government take more precautions on the laws to secure airlines, etc before an actuall terrorist attack had to happen? The government is also strict concerning immigration. When immigrants come to the U.S they have to take certain test to become and American.