Her parents were killed in by indians during a raid on a village in Falmouth, Maine.
Who is Abigail Williams
"More Weight"
Who is Giles Corey
“An everlasting funeral marches around your heart.”
What is personification
In history, this character was actually 11 years of age during the SAlem Witch Trials.
Who is Abigail Williams
This was mandatory on Sunday.
What is attending church
She came to Salem from Barbados as Rev. Parris' servant.
Who is Tituba
"Mr Parris, you are a brainless man."
Who is Judge Danforth
John Proctor forgets the commandment, "Thou should not commit adultery."
What is Irony
There is no evidence, in documented records, that he cheated on his wife.
Who is John Proctor
These people were not allowed to take part in town meetings and were excluded from decision making within the church.
Who are women
She was a servant for the Proctor family (after Abigail).
Who is Mary Warren
"Pray, calm yourselves. I have eleven children and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief.
Who is Rebecca Nurse
"I will fall like an ocean on the court."
What is a simile
She was very much alive during the time of the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is the wife of Rev. Parris
Kiss his wife.
What is it that a man could not do in public with his wife
(keep it clean, folks)
In 1706, she apologized for her role in making accusations against innocent people that resulted in the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Ann (Ruth) Putnam
"I just come from the farm, the whole country‘s talking witchcraft! They‘ll be callin‘ us witches, Abby! Abby, we‘ve got to tell. Witchery‘s a hangin‘ error, a hangin‘ like they done in Boston two years ago! We must tell the truth, Abby!
Who is Mary Warren
"Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small..."
What is a metaphor
He would never have signed any death warrants; only judges would have been allowed to do this.
Who is John Hale
Entire families would migrate together, whereas usually it was young men who would travel alone.
What made Puritan migration to this new land different from previous migrations.
These two girls were the first to be afflicted in Salem Village in 1692.
Who are Ruth Putnam and Betty Parris
"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
Who is Rev. Hale
"The whole country's talking witchcraft."
What is hyperbole
In history, this character from the play was never accused of sending his spirit into the bedroom of Ruth Putnam.
Who is George Jacobs
They called themselves “nonseparating congregationalists,” by which they meant that they had not repudiated the Church of England as a false church.
Who are Puritans.