Just Puritanical Things
This is the setting (place and year) of the play.
Salem, 1692
In Act 2, Ezekiel Cheever finds this inside the poppet at the Proctor house.
a needle
Before she was fired, Abigail held this role in the Proctor household.
servant
In Act 3, this man is ratted out by Giles Corey for convincing his daughter Ruth to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft in order to obtain his land.
Thomas Putnam
This will delay Elizabeth's death by hanging.
her pregnancy
A word mentioned many times in the play: what is a synonym for providence?
fate/destiny
This character said in Act 4:
"How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
John Proctor
In Act 3, John Proctor can recite all of the Ten Commandments to Hale except this one, which is ironic.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Witchcraft! She is charged with the supernatural killing of Goody Putnam's babies.
Rebecca Nurse
Abigail deflects blame in court after being called a fraud by John Proctor by pretending Mary Warren sends out her spirit in the form of this.
a yellow bird
The Puritans are ruled under this type of government.
Theocracy
In Act 4, we learn that this man has been pressed to death with stones.
Giles Corey
In Act 1, John Proctor says to Abigail, “I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll __________ before I ever reach for you again.”
'cut off my hand'
Signifying his desire to fight against the court's accusations, in Act 2, John Proctor says, "I will fall like an ocean on that court". This is what type of figurative language?
a simile
*bonus point if you can explain it!*
At the beginning of Act 1, she lies in bed inert (motionless) after the girls were out dancing in the woods with Tituba.
Betty Parris
In Act 2, Rev. Hale describes this figure as, a wily one, meaning, he is cunning, deceptive, and capable of turning the most upright Christians into sinners.
The Devil
In Act 1, Giles Corey tells Reverend Hale that when his wife Martha does this action, it stops him from his prayer.
"the readin' of strange books"
This word, used to describe John Proctor's sinful behavior with Abigail, is defined as:
excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness.
lechery
This character said in Act 1:
"No, no. now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. the devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her."
Reverend Hale
This character said in Act 1:
I want to open myself! . . . 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. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!"
Abigail Williams
The court finds it suspicious that John Proctor's youngest son is not 1. __________.
Proctor admits he has no love for, and sees no light of God in 2. ______________, and wishes for him to not lay his hands on his child.
1. baptized
2. Reverend Parris
In Act 2, Elizabeth refers to the "weighty magistrates of the General Court" sent from Boston to Salem.
Which characters are they?
Judge Hathorne and Judge Danforth
In Act 1, Proctor says to Hale, "Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this!" This is an example of what type of figurative language?
an allusion
*bonus point if you can explain it!*
In Act 2, Francis Nurse says of Rebecca, "My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church." This is what type of figurative language?
a metaphor
*bonus point if you can explain it!*
In Act 4, allegedly, this is where Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis went after skipping town together.
to board a ship