Rebecca Nurse
Characteristics of Rebecca Nurse's personality (3)
What is gentle, wise, sensible, calm, and honest?
The couple Abigail previously worked for
Who are the Proctor's?
Tituba's job and position in the Salem community
What is Reverend Parris' slave?
Reverend Parris' position in Salem
What is the authority figure and minister?
What is communism?
Rather than "seeking loose spirits," Rebecca Nurse believes who should be blamed
What is the townspeople (ourselves)?
Abigail's motive present in the quote:
"Abigail: She made me do it! She made Betty do it!"
What is blame shifting?
What is Abigail naming names to avoid her own accusation?
The literary device present in the quote:
"[Tituba] enters... but she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back."
What is foreshadowing?
Characteristics of Reverend Parris' personality (3)
What is selfish, paranoid, greedy, and disliked by many townspeople?
The historical event Miller fictionalizes in The Crucible
The literary device present in the quote:
"There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. Let us rather blame ourselves and-."
What is foreshadowing?
Characteristics of Abigail's personality (3)
What is deceitful, dishonest, clever, intimidating, controlling, and selfish?
What is "confess or be hung?"
Reverend Parris' main concern in Act I
What is protecting his reputation?
The punishment in the witch trials for being deemed guilty
What is death by hanging or banishment from the community?
Rebecca Nurse's opinion of what is wrong with Betty
What is there is nothing actually wrong with her?
What is she is pretending?
What is she is afraid of the accusations and is resulting to faking sickness?
Abigail's motive for participating in witch craft and the actual act she did
What is drinking a potion to kill Goody Proctor?
What is because she loves John Proctor and wants to continue their affair?
A term for someone who is easy to push blame onto
What is a scapegoat?
Information revealed about Parris from the quote:
"Parris: We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house" (Miller).
What is Parris' obsession with power and his reputation?
What is his superiority complex?
The major characters in The Crucible (5)
Who is Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams, Tituba, John and Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Thomas and Ann Putnam, Reverend Hale, Betty Parris, Mercy Lewis and Mary Warren, and Giles Corey?
The function of Rebecca Nurse's character
(What is she supposed to represent that the Salem community lacks?)
What is reasoning or the voice of reason?
How Abigail describes her reputation in the village
What is pure?
Reasons why Tituba's position as a slave disadvantages her
What is:
No one believing her denial of being a witch?
Having no rights?
Seen as inferior because of her race and culture?
The ideas Reverend Parris' position reveals about American government
What is being corrupt and divided?
The purpose of Miller writing literature about the Puritans in the form of a fictional play
What is commenting on how the Puritans view fictional literature as sinful and useless?