Characters
Paranoid and self-centered minister of Salem.
Who is Reverend Parris?
The reason Goody Osburn will be hanged
What is forgetting her commandments?
A reason causing Tituba to be the first to confess
What is fear or coercion?
SWITCH POINTS: "I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you."
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
Two historical events that inspired the creation of The Crucible
What are the Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare?
Witch-hunter
Who is Reverend Hale?
The commandment John Proctor cannot recall
What is adultery?
DOUBLE POINTS: Accuser and reason of Goody Good and Goody Osburn
Who is Mrs. Putnam? What are baby killers?
"I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand."
Who is Abigail Williams?
Type of government operates in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
What is a theocracy?
Manipulative child leading the accusers
The place Act II takes place
What is the Proctor household?
Physical and spectral evidence used against Elizabeth Proctor
What is sending her spirit to torment Abigail and the poppet?
"I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to hear, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more."
Who is John Proctor?
SWITCH POINTS: Something Martha Corey does that disturbs her husband
What is reading strange books?
DOUBLE POINTS: A shy servant girl who originally simply watched the woodland witch dancing
Who is Mary Warren?
Something John does to the warrant
Reason Martha Corey is arrested
What is cursing a man's pigs to always die and reading strange books?
”Man, we must look to cause proportionate. Were there murder done, perhaps, and never brought to light? Abomination? Some secret blasphemy that stinks to Heaven? Think on cause, man, and let you help me to discover it. For there's your way, believe it, there is your only way, when such confusion strikes upon the world. Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all. I shall pray God open up your eves.”
Who is Reverend Hale?
A reason Mrs. Putnam sends her daughter to Tituba
What is communing with her dead siblings?
SWITCH POINTS: Jailer
Who is Ezekial Cheever?
The charge Rebecca Nurse is arrested
What is a baby murderer?
DOUBLE POINTS: "You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it."
Who is Judge Danforth?
TRIPLE POINTS: All 11 people accused on the last page
Who is Goody Booth, Goody Bibber, Goody Hawkins, Alice Barrow, Goody Sibber, Marsha Bellows, Goody Howe, George Jacobs, Goody Osburn, Sarah Good, and Bridget Bishop?