Quotes
“Oh, posh! We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright, is all.”
Abigail Williams
“She’d dare not call out such a farmer’s wife but there be monstrous profit in it. She thinks to take my place, John.”
Elizabeth
conjures spirits with girls in the woods
Tituba
John's Wife
Elizabeth
Salem farmer who is hanged
John Proctor
“My name, he wants my name. ‘I’ll murder you,’ he says, ‘if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court, he says!”
Mary Warren
"Oh, it be no Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasureman in Barbados, him be singin' and dancin' in Barbados. It's you folks - you riles him up 'round here; it be too cold 'round here for that Old Boy. He freeze his soul in Massachusetts, but in Barbados he just and sweet."
Tituba
minister in Salem
Parris
minister summoned to check for witchcraft
Hale
Judge
Hathorne
“There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit. Do you understand that?”
Parris
"Last night - mark this - I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she close her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly - mark this - I could pray again!"
Giles Correy
gravely ill after a night in the woods/Parris’ daughter
Betty
husband of woman who was accused of witchcraft; pressed to death
Giles Correy
What is “suspicious” about Proctor and his family?
a. Proctor does not go to church regularly.
b. The youngest son has not been baptized.
c. Proctor could not remember all of the commandments.
“You will not hedge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it.”
John Proctor
"I've had no breakfast."
Rebecca Nurse
(This one is not on the test)
leader of girls in the woods and had affair with Proctor
Abigail
well-respected wife of landowner
Rebecca Nurse
What does Giles Corey accuse Thomas Putnam?
Having Ruth accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft so that Putnam can take Jacobs’s land
“Courage, man, courage– let her witness your good example that she may come to God herself. Now hear it, Goody Nurse! Say on, Mr. Proctor. Did you bind yourself to the Devil’s service?”
Judge Danforth
“No, no. Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of Hell upon her.”
Hale
gives poppet to Elizabeth
Salem landowner who is bitter towards the Nurses
Putnam
What did Proctor do after he signed the confession?
He tore it up