Crucible+Honors+Projects

Please embed your honors presentations for //The Crucible// below. Don't forget to label your video with your name and briefly explain what your presentation is about. Abe Gobel- My project is learning and analyzing Arthur Miller's historical changes media type="custom" key="9123914"

Quinn- My project is a brief summary of Act 2 Scene 2 and to theorize why is was left out of the play and most modern productions. media type="custom" key="9111054"

Jenna- This my project. It is about the connections that can be made between major texts about The Crucible! media type="custom" key="9083808" media type="custom" key="9263508"

Sophia- This is my project about the artistic license (Picky Picky Picky) Arthur Miller took when he wrote //The Crucible//.

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Nolan- This is my analysis and comparison between //The Crucible// and Arthur Miller's essay, //Are You Now or Were You Ever?// Enjoy! media type="youtube" key="FRQE9yCCm7k" height="390" width="640"

Karinne- this is my parody of //the Crucible//... with sock puppets (Special thanks to my sister and my father) media type="custom" key="9109694" Within this project, I had to make choices as to how to portray the characters and the story. I chose to use sock puppets partly because of time constraints and unskilled labor, but mostly as a reflection of the irony present in Miller’s play. Sock puppets are extremely frivolous and puritans hated frivolity; portraying puritan ministers as sock puppets is therefore satirical and funny. The girls were always played by a single hand in a fingerless glove in order to represent how they were basically acting as a single, cohesive unit, as if they were the same person. Mary and Abigail were left independent of the glove because of their important roles and Abigail’s power. Danforth’s loud volume was representative of his constant desire to be overtly noticed as well as to allow the viewers to better understand Mary, who appears as a small, quite child while essentially being yelled at by a tall and powerful adult. The entire play was put into prose due to time constraints and the target audience. The target audience is assumed to have already read the play and to be watching the video for a satirization of what was said therein. For me as a script writer, I am better able to express myself and make fun of things that were said in modern prose. modern prose is also often shorter than the language of the play and therefore works better with the time constraints. Characters and scenes were also cut based on the above principle, people should not be using this to study for a test, they should be using the book for that. I also ran into trouble with the fact that I had four hands to work with and only five minutes. Therefore, only very key plot points were included and some characters were excluded from scenes they could have been in.

Liliana: I read Scene II in Act II, which is often deleted from modern productions, and analyzed why it's often left out. media type="custom" key="9110662"

Mackenzie Mills: I analyzed the movie version of The Crucible and The Play version. media type="custom" key="9111082"

Eddie Orazem: I read the review of the original play of The Crucible and made a Jing video of my analysis. media type="custom" key="9115002"