I have read up until the end o act 2, and it is going pretty well so far. However, I definitely feel like there is more to come, because there just hasn’t been enough evil yet. Not all of the characters have been fully introduced (I know that there is a better word than “introduced,” but I cannot put my finger on it), and I believe that the plot cannot begin to unfold until the initial characters are completely introduced. Although the plot has not started to really unfold, I already expect this play to be very twisted. The characters, especially Abigail Williams, all have their own decieving characteristics. Abigail is essentially a two-faced character. Her lies create a barrier between her true personality and her fake personality.
I have noticed that the stage directions and narration notes are delibrately direct. It is exceedingly different from Shakespeare’s plays. The only stage directions that are written for most of Shakespeare’s plays are the entrances and exits. In this way, directors can almost customize the plays however they want, but Arthur Miller does not allow much room to alter “The Crucible.”

First of all, I really hope that Mr. Wasserman is not the only person who is going to read this blog. 
Anyway, my group is going to perform Act 3 scenes 3 and 4.  We have done what we needed to do in the class time we had, but we haven’t done any more than those requirements.  By now I suppose we should have most of the stage directions completed, but, again, we haven’t done all of them.  My group has not worked on much acting.  Yesterday we made a stage so that we could practice our entrances and exits and to get comfortable with our parts and their speaking directions.  The bottom line is we have some work to do.

I have not started learning my lines and I have a lot of them, so I should really get to that over the weekend.  It did not take long to choose who would play Macbeth.  No one else wanted to play him, so… I did.  My group still needs to create the scene, draw the characters, cut the script, and some more stuff.

Hey ya’ll. I choose to read “The Crucible.” What do I expect from this book? I expect it to be twisted but understandable. It is a play, so I also expect it to move along smoothly and to flow. There is no text inbetween speech, and, therefore, no room for the mood of the play and its reader to lose concentration. Constant attention will be demanded, but that is not a problem. What made me choose “The Crucible”? Mr. Wasserman suggested it to me after class one day. He said that if I was interested in the Puritans then I should read “The Crucible” for the outside reading asignment on evil. I have another reason for choosing it though. I think it is important to read a view on Puritans in the form of a play. It should be interesting.