THE CRUCIBLE – CHARACTERS
She targets and accuses local citizens of witchcraft primarily to seize personal power and permanently eliminate Elizabeth Proctor.
Who is Abigail Williams?
The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place entirely within this historical Massachusetts settlement.
This character is the narrator of the novel.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This is the specific name for the time period the novel is set in.
What is the Roaring 20's?
This first person Eddie meets in heaven accidentally died of a heart attack caused by a car accident Eddie narrowly avoided as a child.
Who is The Blue Man?
The Blue Man teaches Eddie that there are no random acts and that all lives and stories are __________________.
What is interconnected?
Henry David Thoreau coined this term for the act of disobeying laws you feel are unjust.
What is Civil Disobedience?
This character's core internal conflict throughout the play stems from intense guilt over having an affair.
Who is John Proctor?
The play opens with Reverend Parris discovering his daughter Betty and other girls doing this in the forest.
What is dancing?
This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This person is driving the car that hits and kills Myrtle Wilson
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
This man was Eddie’s commanding officer in the Philippines and took a bullet to Eddie's leg to save his life.
Who is the Captain?
Ruby helps Eddie let go of the deep resentment he held toward this specific family member.
Who is his father?
The Transcendentalist movement was centered in and around this specific New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
A comparison between two things using like or as
What is a simile?
John Proctors wife, victim of Abigail Williams' wrath.
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
This specific object, given to Elizabeth Proctor by Mary Warren, is used as "proof" that Elizabeth used voodoo against Abigail.
What is a poppet (or doll)?
This character kills Jay Gatsby, believing he hit and killed his wife.
Who is George Wilson?
This is the nickname of the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
Where is the Valley of Ashes?
This elegant woman, for whom the original amusement park was named, teaches Eddie about the destructive nature of anger and the importance of forgiveness.
Who is Ruby?
This was Eddie’s official job title at Ruby Pier, a job he initially resented but held for decades.
What is Head of Maintenance?
This core value emphasizes relying on one's own powers and resources rather than trusting society or tradition.
What is Self- Reliance?
A comparison between two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
This is the first character to be accused of withcraft by the group of girls.
Who is Tituba?
Written in the 1950s, the entire structural plot of the play serves as a direct political allegory for this real-world anti-communist movement.
What is McCarthyism (or The Red Scare)?
This character is the first to reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to Nick.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."
Eddie’s fourth person is this woman, the only love of his life, who teaches him that love doesn't end just because life does.
Who is Marguerite (Eddie's wife)?
Eddie dies after this ride falls and crushes him as he saves a child.
What is Freddy's Free Fall?
He is considered the "Father of Transcendentalism" and wrote the groundbreaking essay Nature.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Subtle hints or clues dropped by the author that suggest what will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
This character transforms from a dutiful, witch- hunting Christian to a bold, outspoken man who is against the Witch Trials
Who is Reverend John Hale?
John Proctor refuses to sign the confession even after verbally admitting to witchcraft, saying he has given them his soul, but they cannot take his _______.
What is his name?
This character is a boy poor from North Dakota, who later changes his name to Jay Gatsby.
Who is James Gatz?
This symbol represents Gatsby's idealistic dream of Daisy.
What is the green light?
The fifth and final person Eddie meets is this young girl, who tragically died in a fire that Eddie and his fellow soldiers set.
Who is Tala?
This is the name of the young girl Eddie desperately tries to push out of the way of the falling amusement park cart.
What is Amy or Annie?
Ralph Waldo Emerson came up with this creative metaphor for losing all egotism and becoming one with nature- "I am a ___________ ____________, I am nothing, I see all"
What is the transparent eyeball.
An intentional, dramatic exaggeration used for emphasis or comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
This character has seven healthy children, making her the target of accusations by Ann Putnam, who lost most of her children in childbirth.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
John Proctor forgets this specific Commandment when Reverend Hale questions his religious devotion.
What is the commandment forbidding adultery?
This character is a shady associate of Gatsby who wears human molars as cufflinks.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter 7.
What is that she never loved Tom?
This character is Eddie's father's best friend, who ultimately attacks Eddie's mother.
Who is Mickey Shea?
Eddie's final words to his father in heaven.
What is "it's fixed"?
Henry David Thoreau went to jail for refusing to do this.
An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art (often Biblical, mythological, or historical).
What is allusion?
This character is pressed to death by heavy stones, and their last words are "More weight".
Who is Giles Corey?
Elizabeth Proctor is not hanged for being a witch because this piece of information comes to light, protecting her.
What is she is pregnant?
Who is Owl Eyes?
What is bootlegging?
Who is Ruby?
Eddie's purpose in life
What is to keep all of the adults and children safe at Ruby Pier?
Transcendentalists were explicitly 'fighting' against the Industrial Revolution because of this core fear.
What is that people were becoming machines?
The methods an author uses to reveal a character’s personality (can be direct via description, or indirect via actions, speech, and thoughts).
What is characterization?