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The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Translations. Rewrite the following lines from the play using modern sentence structure. Replace Archaic words with modern words. ‘She ails as she must-she never waked this morning, but her eyes open and she walks, and hears naught and cannot eat.’ (Act I)
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller Translations
Rewrite the following lines from the play using modern sentence structure. Replace Archaic words with modern words. • ‘She ails as she must-she never waked this morning, but her eyes open and she walks, and hears naught and cannot eat.’ (Act I) • ‘Be foolish Mary Warren? Be you deaf? I forbid you leave the house did I not?’ (Act I) • ‘Mr. Proctor, in open court she near choked us all to death’ (Act II)
Rewrite the following lines from the play using modern sentence structure. Replace Archaic words with modern words. • ‘Y’see, he buy a pig of my wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after.’(Act II) • ‘I never saw no spirits’ (Act III) • ‘It were toward midnight, I think.’ (Act IV) • ‘I am yet six month before my time.’ (Act IV)
Imagery examples • There is the color imagery of white, black and blush: • 'Your name in the town, it is entirely white, is it not?' (Act One) • 'There be no blush about my name.' (Act One)