Quotes
You are not undone! Let you take hold here. Wait for no one to charge you - declare it yourself. You have discovered witchcraft -
Thomas Putnam
Abigail Williams
to take Elizabeth Proctor's place as Proctor's wife
Rebecca Nurse + Ann Putnam
Putnam is jealous of Nurse, Nurse does not realize the pain and suffering that Putnam as endured
What commandment does Proctor forget when being questioned by Hale?
Adultery
Loaded Question
Theology, sir, is no fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
Reverend John Hale
Mary Warren
to gain power in the community, and to please Abigail
Elizabeth + John
Husband and wife, but cold and stilted until she is threatened
Tituba ultimately confesses for this reason
to save her own life
"I'm your science teacher, so of course you should follow my lead in hockey."
Appeal to Authority
I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes?
Abigail Williams
Thomas Putnam
uses the trials to indict Parris and take his position from him
Parris and the town
1) his parishioners
2) the party sworn to take him down
During the red scare, what supposedly infiltrated the american government?
communists
"If we let one witch go, the whole town will turn to witchcraft, and then god will be brought down from the sky."
Slippery Slope
There is a promise made in any bed -
Elizabeth Proctor
Parris
to keep his power and position in the church (additional points if you say money in any capacity)
the church + salem's government
one in the same
Proctor declares that he must join this party in Act one
a party that stands against Parris' authority in the church
"I believe that potions are a valid science, because witches use potions and you can't prove that they don't exist, so how can you prove that potions aren't valid?"
Appeal to Ignorance
I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows - it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer.
Rebecca Nurse
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tituba + the town of salem
1) scapegoat
2) beginning of the accusations
the threat of absolute religious evil is used to make people bow to institutions powered by man
[I only saw them leave to go to the forest.] "Oh, so you let them go down there?"
Straw man