BETRAYAL

And recrimination

Trust, ideas, personal relationships, self-betrayal

Who am I, what do I stand for, what will I be, who will I answer to
Mass hysteria creates betrayal
Fever
Immediacy
fiesty
communist becomes a tool
threat
1. How do you live with your betrayal
a. TRUMBO What if its all for nothing? How do I live with that?
b. CRUCIBLE REBECCA: Why, it is lie, it is a lie; how may I damn
myself? I cannot.
c. WUTHERING HEIGHTS "Have you considered how you'll bear the
separation, and how he'll bear to be quite deserted in the world?"
2. Who will you answer to
a. CRUCIBLE I falter nothing, but I may wonder if my story will be credited
in such a court.
b. TRUMBO You believe this Committee has the right to compel testimony,
indict opinion --criminalize thought -- but that right does not exist and the
day it does, God help us all.
c. MARY WARREN, in terror: I cannot, they'll turn on me
d.
3. What will you be
a. TRUMBO There were only victims. Some suffered less than others,
some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims
because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things
he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver
and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none
of us--right, left, or center--emerged from that long nightmare without
sin.
b. CRUCIBLE For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have
quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that
this be fraudGod damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will
burn together!
c. LOCKWOOD Terror made me cruel
4.

Experiencing the characters, the events,

Experiencing,
Encountering pain and suffering of individuals and communities who are at risk of losing
their sanity and moral compass is a compelling, and horrifying experience.
Wonder alike

appaling, horrifying, exposure, experience provides insight to

Catherine is asked if she has thought about how her beloved will suffer from her betrayal:
Have you considered how youll bear the separation, and how hell bear to be quite
deserted in the world?

Dalton Trumbo poses a deeper question: What if its all for nothing? How do I live with
that?

When Heathcliff has been betrayed by his love, he turns to a dark life of and anger, spite,
and revenge.

Even with their lives at stake John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse refuse to betray
themselves. Rebecca Nurses life is at stake she r It is a lie; how may I damn myself?