Context & Setting
I am the author of The Crucible.
Who is Arthur Miller?
I represent fear and death.
What is the noose?
Intellectual from Beverly.
Who is Reverend Hale?
Abigail drinks this charm to kill Goody Proctor.
What is chicken blood?
"Now look you. All of you. We danced...Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."
Who is Abigail?
The town and state in which the story takes place.
What is Salem, Massachusetts.
I represent manipulation, evil, and the loss of innocence.
What is the poppet?
The person accused of making the girls dance and conjure.
Who is Tituba?
What is dancing naked in the forest?
"There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning."
Who is Reverend Parris?
The Crucible is a dramatized play based off of this real life historical event.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
I represent injustice.
What is the gavel/Danforth's gavel?
I was stoned to death for not giving up my friends.
Who is Giles Corey?
Martha Corey is questioned by her husband for this act.
What is the reading of strange books?
"He say Mister Parris must be kill! Mister Parris no goodly man, Mister Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! I tell him, no! I don't hate that man! I don't want kill that man... And I say, you Lie, Devil, you lie! "
Who is Tituba?
Our story begins in the Spring of this year.
What is 1692?
I represent weath, greed and hypocracy.
What are the golden candlesticks.
Charged for the "marvelous and supernatural murder of Good Putnam's babies."
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
In order to escape execution by hanging, on must...
What is confess to witchcraft?
"I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth."
Who is Mrs/Goody Putnam?
The total number of people hanged or stoned, according to historical records.
What is 20?
I represent evil and the fear of the unknown.
What is the forest?
Wealthy landowner accused of charging his neigbors of witchraft just to buy their land.
Who is Thomas Putnam?
In order to live, Judge Danforth demands that John Proctor must...
What is sign his name and hang it on the church door.
"Witchery's a hangin' error, a hangin' like they done in Boston two year ago... You'll only be whipped for dancin' and the other things."
Who is Mary Warren?