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The Dressmaker VS The Crucible Snapchat-1658704943, PROMPTS TO PRACTICE…

- - - - "A dark blot shimmering at the edge of flatness" (p.1)
      - "A community hall in the middle" (11)
      - "It was not a busy road and there were few shops at its kerb"
      - "The town will be quiet again and the children will go back to the creek to play
      - "On Saturday mornings the main street of Dungatar sang to the chug of farm trucks and solid British automobiles bearing smart pastoralist families. Younger children were passed into the care of older siblings, and sent to the part so mothers could shop and gossip. Men stood in clumps talking about the weather and looking to the sky, and thin-skinned, thick-boned women in floral sunfrocks and felt hates sat behind trestle tables selling raffle tickets."
      - "The cemetery and the farming country beyond the police station at the edge of the town, past the crumbling brick-rendered shop facades and warped weatherboards covered in peeling paint."
      - Molly: "Everybody knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle-tattles because then someone else'll tell on them. But you don't matter - it's open slather on outcasts."
      - "As the sun set, The Hill cast a shadow over the town that stretched as far as the silos." (1) The Hill, a ramshack house that represents the
      - "Bitterness rested on Tilly's soul and wore itself on her face."
    - - "The ladies of Dungatar were polite to Councillor Pettyman - he was the shire president and Marigold's husband. But they turned their backs when they saw him coming, busied themselves with a shop window or sudddenly remembered something they had to do across the road. Men avoided the councillor but were cordial." (Pg 57)
      - "Her nerves started to go, and slowly got worse, and when she had never been the same after their son Steward was so tragically killed." (Pg 58)
  - - - Names of a person = a meaning of a name can forshadow the fate of a character, or describe their personality. [Dunnage, Pettyman, McSwiney, Harridiene, Beumont, Almanac, Pratt, etc...)
        
        "Whitening" or "blackening" one's name
      - Tilly's 'Singer' Sewing machine - used as a powerful tool for Tilly to control the townspeople of Dungatar and make them believe that their transformed appearances have elevated their social status.
      - Gingham: 'A cotton fabric varying in quality depending on the type of yarn, fastness of colour and weight. Can be woven into a range of patterns. A durable fabric if treated appropriately.* Various uses, from grain bags and curtains to house dresses and suits
      - Shantung: text
- - - - P.55
        PROCTOR: [He turns suddenly toward a sound outside. He starts for the door as MARY WARREN enters. As soon as he sees her, he goes directly to her and grabs her by her cloak, furious.] How do you go to Salem when I forbid it? DO you mock me? [SHaking her.] I'll whip you if you dare leave this house again!"
      - P.72
        PROCTOR: "If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser alwasy holy now? Were they born this mornng as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrants vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!"
        
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    - - "There is a pause. She is watching him from the table as he stands there absorbing the night, It is as though she would speak but cannot. Instead, now, she takes up his plate and glass and fork and goes with them to the basin. Her back is turned to him. He turns to her and watches her. A sense of their separation rises.:
      - "PROCTOR: Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore."
      - "PROCTOR: I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!"
    - - Miller: "...The people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the unity together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction..."
        Miller: "The Witch-hunt was a preserve manifestation of the panic, which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom."
- - - - Gender conformity - the fixed roles that women and men are subjected under
      - 2.The treatment of women in power vs those who conform to societal expectations - the dualisms between the powerful and the powerless among women
        
        The idea that women are much more subjected to be targeted to fear and harm, as well as being much more vulnerable to their surroundings.
        
        Expectations of power
      - 3.The ways in which women view and treat each other
        
        Perceived hostility - A sense of rivalry between women
      - Rumours and gossiping - more evidently in The Dressmaker, where the women appear to be the instigators of gossip - Beaula Harridene, Lois Picket, Ruth, Nancy, Prudence Dimm