You are Reverend Parris at the end of the play. Proctor has just been hanged. Write your thoughts.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2010). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. You have spent the whole play on damage limitation and you have signally failed.
2. You must now realise that the game is up.
3. Abigail has run away, some of your parishioners have been wrongly executed, you have nobody's confidence and all because of the witch hunt which you effectively instituted to preserve your own miserable reputation.
4. No doubt you will be full of recriminations but you will surely realise that you can no longer minister to Salem.
5. Something of this content with the occasional sense of this man's whining tones should enough for adequate reward but his voice is distinctive and it should be possible to make those tones central to the assumption.
6. Look for that before giving high reward.