Directions:

Our world is filled with quotations that bring us insight, provide an interesting thought, or give an important perspective. Take a moment to consider the quotations listed in the prompt. Choose one quotation for your focus. In a short paragraph, explain your interpretation of the quotation.

Consider these questions:

What does this quotation mean to you?
Why do you think the author wrote this quotation?
Be sure to use specific examples or textual evidence from the reading, or your own experiences and knowledge.
Prompt: Quotation 1: From The Crucible, Act 4, Part 4 “PROCTOR: I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man. (She is silent.) My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothing’s spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before.”
Quotation 2: From “Young Goodman Brown,” Part 2 “And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom.”