Characters
This character, a slave from Barbados, calls out Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as witches.
Who is Tituba?
John Proctor says, “The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl!” Who is "that girl"?
Who is Abigail Williams?
Early in Act 2, John Proctor remarks, “It is winter in here yet,” and he asks his wife to gather some flowers. What figurative device is Proctor using and what does it explain about the Proctors' conflict?
What is metaphor? What is they have not recovered from John's adultery?
He says, “Why, it is all simple. I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. . . There is blood on my head!"
Who is Reverend John Hale?
An accused witch can escape hanging by
What is lying and confessing the charge of witchcraft?
Which character discovers the girls dancing in the forest and later lies in court, saying, “I never saw anyone naked.”
Who is Reverend Parris?
To resolve her conflict with herself and her husband this character says, “Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it. . . Do what you will. But let none be your judge. . . I never knew such goodness in the world.”
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
The statement, “where she [Abigail] walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel” contains these TWO literary elements.
What are allusion and simile?
She ends the play by saying, “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him."
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
Giles Corey makes this accusation against Thomas Putnam, but refuses to tell Danforth the name of the man who gave him this information.
What is prompting his daughter to cry witch on his neighbors so he can buy their land?
This character is afraid of testifying that she made the poppet and stuck the needle in herself because she “cannot charge murder on Abigail.”
Who is Mary Warren?
When John Proctor says, “A fire, a fire is burning? I hear the boot of Lucifer. I see his filthy fac! And it is my face, and yours," to whom is he speaking?
Who is Deputy Governor Danforth?
This literary device is employed when Reverend Hale asks John to recite the 10 Commandments, he forgets this one? (Two part question: the device and the commandment)
What is dramatic irony? What is "thou shalt not commit adultery?"
At the beginning of the play, Rebecca Nurse says, “There is a prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.” This quotation is an example of which literary element?
What is foreshadowing?
Reverend Parris becomes increasingly worried about continuing the hangings because these TWO things have happened to make his situation worse.
What is Abigail has stolen his money and run away with Mercy and he found a dagger stuck into his door as a threat?
Challenged to name other people who might be accused of witchery, this courageous man refuses; his final words are “More weight.”
Who is Giles Corey?
In the end, he sees there is goodness in himself—“not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.”
Who is John Proctor?
When discussing Elizabeth's character, John says this about her in the court. (Ironically this does not turn out to be true.)
What is "In her life, sir, she have never lied"?
What does Giles Corey reveal to Reverend Hale about his wife Martha?
What is she reads strange books and/or he cannot pray when she reads strange books?
Reverend John Hale proves to be a good man as we see him change from this at the beginning of the play to this at the end.
What is eager to investigate witchcraft in the beginning and tormented by guilt in the end?
She is hanged on the same day as John Proctor “for the marvelous and supernatural murder” of Ann Putnam’s children.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
He attempts to persuade by saying, "Life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
Who is Reverend John Hale?
Proctor does not want to sign the confession or have it hung on the church door. He tells Danforth, "I have given you my soul, leave me" this.
What is "my name"?
Who is Deputy Governor Danforth?
Abigail Williams manipulates a witchcraft accusation against Elizabeth Proctor by
What is claiming that Elizabeth stabbed her with a needle, just like the needle in Mary Warren's poppet?