Transcript Cause and Effect in The Crucible

Cause and
Effect in
The
Crucible
In literature, as
in life, events
are often linked
in cause-effect
relationships.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding
how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how
how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.9 Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenthand early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how
how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.
CAUSE: Tituba and
some of the girls
in Salem have a
ritual in the
forest.
EFFECT: Tituba
is charged with
witchcraft
CAUSE: Reverend
parris sends for
reverend hale
EFFECT: serious
inquiries and
accusations
about witchcraft
begin
CAUSE: proctor
denies abby his
love.abby
EFFECT:
becomes
desperate in an
attempt to
destroy
elizabeth
CAUSE: reverend
hale pressures
tituba to confess
to witchcraft
EFFECT: titba
names sarah good
and others as
witches
CAUSE: john proctor
forgets the
commandment against
adultery
EFFECT:
hale
questions the
sincerity of
proctor’s
commitment
CAUSE: giles corey
says his wife reads
books
EFFECT: martha
corey is
arrested
CAUSE: mary warren
gives elizabeth a
poppet
EFFECT:
elizabeth
proctor is
arrested for
stabbing Abigail
williams
CAUSE: proctor
presents a petition,
with signatures, to
danforth
EFFECT:
danforth
insists that all
those who signed the
petition will be
summoned to court
CAUSE: mary warren
testitfies against
the other girls
EFFECT: the
girls all scream
and plot against
mary in court.
CAUSE: elizabeth
proctor lies about
her husband’s
infidelity
EFFECT:
john
proctor’s
allegations
against abby are
discredited.
fakes a vision of
mary’s spirit
attacking in the
EFFECT: mary
form of a yellow
sides with the
bird.
girls and
accuses john
proctor of
witchcraft
CAUSE: abigail
vanishes from salem
with reverend
EFFECT: parris
parris’ money.
allows hale to
minister the
prisoners. He
fears for his
life.
CAUSE: giles corey
refuses to confess
EFFECT: giles is
to witchcraft
not hanged by
pressed to
death; his
children can
inherit his
CAUSE: danforth
refuses to delay
the executions.
EFFECT: innocent
people are
executed.
CAUSE: john proctor
tears up his
confession.
EFFECT: proctor
is hanged; he
goes to death
with dignity.