Quotes
"I cannot judge you, John"
Elizabeth
Uninterrupted speech said by one character to other characters on stage
monologue
Parris's motivation
Egotistical; cares about his reputation
Poppet
Evil, witchcraft
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near!
simile
I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!
Abigail
play that has a deeper political meaning, intended to teach a moral lesson
allegory
Abigail's motivation
She wanted Proctor for herself
Fire
Destruction, chaos
Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.
Biblical allusion
I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord. I do not fathom it, why am I persecuted here? I cannot offer one proposition but there be a howling riot of argument.
Parris
Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters- a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling.
Stage directions
Danforth won't spare innocent women, even though he knows they may not have been witches
He wants to be respected in the town and doesn't want to go bak on his work
Noose
death of innocence or hope
The parlor's packet with people
alliteration
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
Proctor
A character who does not change throughout the play
Ann Putnam's motivation to accuse Rebecca Nurse
Ann Putnam is jealous that Rebecca Nurse has so many children
Yellow birds
cowardice
The marks of his presence are definite as stone.
metaphor
"Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. 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 come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."
Abigail
Dramatic irony
He wants to uphold his reputation and save his family's name
cows/children roaming the town
loss of trust/order
I pray you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry's at stake.
personification