Characters
These two individuals were murdered by Native Americans
Abigail's parents
This is what Abigail drinks as a charm to kill Goody Proctor
"Now look you. All you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this..."
Abigail Williams
Language that appeals to the five senses
Imagery
True or false: John and Abigail kiss in Act I.
False
John and Elizabeth Proctor's current servant/maid.
Ruth Putnam is sent by her mother to do this with Tituba.
Conjure the spirits of her deceased siblings.
"Now look you, child-if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, I must know it, for surely my enemies will, and they‘ll ruin me with it… "
Rev. Parris
The force or person that causes a character to act or react
Motivation
Tituba is from this island country.
Barbados
This character sends for Reverend Hale to investigate the girls' illnesses
Rev. Parris
Tituba confesses to witchcraft even though she is innocent because of this reason.
They are threatening her life/physical abuse
"We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.."
Rev. Hale
A humorous incident that breaks the tension
Comic relief
Puritans are this, meaning they believe every word of The Bible to be true.
Fundamentalists
Giles and John Proctor argue with this character about land and timber.
Thomas Putnam
Rev. Parris complains about not having enough of this resource.
Firewood
"There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits, I fear it, I fear it. Let us rather blame ourselves and…"
When the opposite happens from what you expect.
Situational irony
The Bible instructs its readers to do this to witches.
Kill them (thou shalt not suffer a witch to live)
Goody Osburn
This Puritan leaves the room once Hale begins his investigation as an act of disapproval/defiance against a witchhunt.
Rebecca Nurse
"I just come from the farm, the whole country‘s talking witchcraft! They‘ll be callin‘ us witches.."
Mary Warren
A character that undergoes a permanent change
Dynamic character
This technique is employed when it is revealed to the audience that John and Abigail had an affair.
Dramatic Irony