The Crucible / The Dressmaker: Themes and Ideas

“He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion” (The Crucible)

“it’s amazing what a little bit of nourishment will do” (The Dressmaker)

Which theme best fits these quotations?

• guilt

• insular communities

• love

• power

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery" (The Crucible)

“You know perfectly well girls who wear dresses like that don’t warrant honourable intentions” (The Dressmaker)

Which theme best fits these quotations?

• gender roles

• judgement

• insular communities

• revenge

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

“the people bobbed together like ____________ pecking at vegetable scraps, turning occasionally to glance up at the house on The Hill, before turning hurriedly away” (The Dressmaker)

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which characters are dead at the end of the texts?

• Giles Corey

• Abigail

• Molly

• Mae McSwiney

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

REBECCA: let you fear nothing! Another ______________ awaits us all (The Crucible)

• judge

• judgement

• court

• Danforce

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“She wore, as ever, a navy linen day dress and her fox fur…bald patches on the mottled, thinning pelt” (The Dressmaker)

Which themes best fit this quotation?

• truth and deception

• blame and fear

• guilt and sin

• love and forgiveness

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

“we burn a hot fire here; ________________________”

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"he cut a villainous path, and there is very little good to be said for him" (The Crucible)

• Parris

• Putnam

• Danforth

• Pettyman

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“A barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics” (The Crucible)

“They’re all liars, sinners and hypocrites” (The Dressmaker)

Which theme best suits these quotations?

• toxic and vengeful communities

• insular communities

• hypocrisy

• blame and guilt

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

“In this town, a man can covet his neighbour’s wife and not get hurt but to speak the truth can earn a bleeding nose”

Who said this?

• Rebecca Nurse

• Giles Corey

• Tilly Dunnage

• Septimus Crescent

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3