Directions: The claim has been provided for you. This is someone’s opinion about the text which you may or may not agree with. Study the claim and decide how you would argue in defense of it, AND how you would challenge or qualify it. Cite 1-2 pieces of evidence from the play for each answer. Defend: I agree with the statement and here’s why.

Challenge: I disagree with the statement and here’s why.
Qualify: Here’s why I agree with the statement, but here’s why I disagree with it

Act IV
Claim: “Because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (Act IV, scene 4, lines ). This quote perfectly encapsulates Miller’s righteous anger at McCarthyism and the Red Scare.