Author/Backgroun
The author of the play.
Who is Arthur Miller?
This character is the main character around whom the central conflict rises--does he lie and sign a false confession or die for the truth?
Who is John Proctor?
This means "a severe test or trial."
What is a crucible?
What is guilty until proven innocent?
Speaker who says, "There is a faction sworn to drive me from my pulpit....[M]y own house is discovered to be the very center of some obscene practice.
Who is Reverend Parris?
This lady was the author's famous second wife.
Who was Marilyn Monroe?
This character, racially different from the rest, confesses but still goes to jail.
Who is Tituba?
A testimony of a witness under oath.
What is a deposition?
John Proctor says this is [figuratively] walking in Salem.
What is vengeance?
Speaker who states,"Since we built the church...he preach nothin' but golden candlesticks until he had them."
Who is John Proctor?
This is the name of the senator who started accusing U.S citizens of being communists in the early 1950s.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This character, old but strong, has been in court thirty-three times as a plaintiff.
Who is Giles Corey?
This word means "to trick."
What is beguile?
This is a Roman official to whom Rev. Hale is compared in Act II's end because he does not immediately try to help Elizabeth Proctor when she's arrested.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
What Rev. Hale says in the end of Act IV about why he has come back to get good Christians to give false confessions about being witches.
What is "I come to council Christians they should belie themselves.... Life is God's most precious gift."
This is the name of the doctrine the Puritans followed.
What is Calvinistic Doctrine?
This character uses circumstantial evidence to condemn people to death.
Who is Judge Danforth?
This word means "of great size, power, or extent."
What is prodigious?
These are two vices that Judge Danforth illustrates with his greed about his reputation and his gullibility in believing the lying witnesses.
What are selfishness and blindness?
Speaker who says, "You see it sir, it's God's work we do. So I'll be gone everyday for some time....I'm ...an official of the court."
Who is Mary Warren?
This is one of the 5 Points of Calvinistic Doctrine.
What is (answers will vary).
This person believes life is more important than truth.
Who is Reverend Hale?
"Sinful act or remark."
What is blasphemy?
She wants to save her husband from death so she tells a falsehood.
Why does Elizabeth lie in court about John's adultery?
Reason Elizabeth says she cannot judge John.
What is "Whatever you do it is a good man does it....I have sins of my own to count. It is a cold wife to prompt lechery."