Characters
A victim of Abigail's jealousy
Elizabeth
A paranoid reverend who only cares about his reputation
Parris
What genre does The Crucible fall under?
Play/Drama
“I will fall like an ocean on that court!”
Simile
"But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, I must know it now, for surely my enemies will ruin me with it."
Speaker: Parris
Spoken to: Abigail
A greedy landowner with a vengeance
Mr. Putnam
Supposed witchcraft expert
Hale
What is the setting of the Salem Witch Trials (time of year, location, and date)
Springtime in Salem, 1692
“Vengeance is walking Salem….Vengeance writes the law”
Personification
“I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing...We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor.”
Speaker: Mary Warren
Spoken to: Elizabeth Proctor
A man who is riddled with guilt and self-hatred
Proctor
Jealous, manipulative, and the primary cause of the Salem Witch Trials.
Abigail
What do the Purtians associate the forest with?
Disorder/evil/the devil
“Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks, the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.”
Biblical Allusion
“...In my ignorance, I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court. And so this afternoon, and now tonight, I go from house to house…”
Speaker: Hale
Spoken to: The Proctors
A grandmotherly figure who is unjustly arrested
Rebecca
Proctor's new servant and one of the key accusers
Mary Warren
What assumption can readers make about the Purtians' attitude toward slaves based on what they learn in Act 1?
They are only a step above devil worshippers.
'Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this!'"
Biblical Allusion
“You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires.”
Speaker: Ann Putnam
Spoken to: Rebecca Nurse
A brave, strong man who accidentally places suspicion on his wife.
Giles Corey
Arrests people in Salem only because he was ordered to do so
Cheever
Based on this play, what is ironic about the fact that the Puritans came to this country for religious freedom?
When they got here, they persecuted others for religious beliefs that did not match their own.
“My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church”
Metaphor
“It’s strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women,”
Speaker: John Proctor
Spoken to: Mary Warren