Characters
Abigail is in love with this man
John Proctor
The Salem Witch Trials took place from when to when?
1692-1693
Word for panic that spread through Salem during the Witch Trials
Hysteria
"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 bring a pointy reckoning that will tremble you."
Abigail
This was a dumb thing for Tituba to do when she was being accused of witchcraft
Confess to doing it
Who is caught dancing in the woods?
Abigail, Betty, Mary Warren, Tituba, other girls
19
What we called it when Tituba was accused of witchcraft and forced to confess
Racism
"He say Mr. Parris must be kill! He bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him 'No! I don’t hate that man, I don’t want to kill that man.' And then he come one stormy night to me and he say, 'Look! I have WHITE people belong to me.'"
Tituba
This was a dumb thing for Abigail and the other girls to do late at night that got them in trouble
Dancing in the woods
First person to be accused of witchcraft
Tituba
The people of Salem Village practiced what religion?
Puritanism
John Proctor committed what indiscretion that set the chain of events leading to the witch trial in motion?
Infidelity
"I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John, only somewhat bewildered."
Elizabeth Proctor
This was a dumb thing for John Proctor to do after his wife was arrested
Go to court with Mary Warren
Abigail personally accuses this woman of witchcraft (to get her out of the way)
Elizabeth Proctor
The Puritan religion was very _____________.
Strict, suppressive, intense, etc.
Many of the characters are motivated by this, especially Abigail when she accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft.
Jealousy
"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 them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; Leave me my name!"
John Proctor
This was a dumb thing for Mary Warren to give Elizabeth proctor when she came back from court
A poppet (with a needle stuck in it)
Who is a judge during the witch trials
Hale, Danforth
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an ___________
comparing the Witch Trials to _________________.
Allegory.......Red Scare
John Proctor is most concerned with losing his ______________ at the end of the play?
Reputation, name
"Sit you down, children. Your friend, Mary Warren, has given us a deposition. In which she swears that she never saw familiar spirits, apparitions, or any manifest of the Devil. She claims as well that none of you have seen these things either. Now; children, this is a court of law. If she speak true, I bid you now drop your guile and confess your pretense, for a quick confession will go easier with you. Abigail Williams, rise. Is there any truth in this?"
Danforth
This was a dumb thing for Proctor to do at the end of the play
Admit to witchcraft, not sign his name for fear of ruining his reputation