Characters
This character has an affair with Abigail Williams.
Who is John Proctor?
This appears to be Reverend Parris's primary concern in Act I of the play.
What is his job/reputation?
John Proctor ironically forgets this commandment when he is being questioned by Reverend Hale in his home.
What is adultery?
This evidence is used to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft.
What is the needled poppet Mary gave her?
This is the reason Rev. Hale returns to Salem jail in act 4.
What is to beg the condemned to save their lives by confessing/lying?
This is the first character to admit to practicing witchcraft, effectively beginning the witch hunt.
Who is Tituba?
It's the unacceptable behavior of some of the town's girls before the action of the play begins.
What is dancing in the woods in various states of dress?
It's the reason John gives Reverend Hale for his youngest child not having been baptized.
What is John's general disapproval of Rev. Parris? ("I see no light of God in that man")
This is the reason Giles Corey refuses to respond either way to the charges against him.
What is so he cannot be convicted and his sons will inherit his land?
John Proctor's tortured soul is a huge sub-plot of the play. This event in act 4 begins to resolve that sub-plot.
What is a conversation between John and Elizabeth, meant to convince John to confess his supernatural wrongdoing, but ironically giving him the first inkling of redemption.
This character arrives in Salem to investigate charges of witchcraft, but eventually begins to doubt the guilt of many of the accused.
Who is Reverend Hale?
Tituba ultimately confesses to witchcraft for this reason.
What is saving her life?
When Elizabeth did this in court, she unwittingly undermined John's testimony that the girl's were pretending.
What is denying John's affair with Abigail?
This will delay Elizabeth's hanging.
What is her pregnancy?
In a final show of defiance, they are the only 2 words Giles Corey offers as he's being tortured for a confession.
What are "more weight"?
These characters accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft for the supernatural murder of seven babies.
Who are Thomas & Ann Putnam?
Elizabeth states that Abigail wants her accused as a witch for this reason.
What is so that Abigail can have John to herself?
When Elizabeth is arrested, John insists that Mary Warren do this.
What is come to court and tell the truth?
Elizabeth Proctor places some of the blame for John's affair on this person.
Who is herself?
Parris takes Abigail in during the proceedings, and she rewards him by doing this (I'm sure he's glad he bet the whole town on her).
What is stealing his life savings and skipping town?
This character gives Elizabeth a poppet that eventually leads to her arrest.
Who is Mary Warren?
When Betty is ill in act 1, this is the reason Rev. Parris does not want to conclude that it's witchcraft.
What is his not wanting to appear to have corruption in his home?
It's the figure the accuser girls claim Mary Warren is using to convey her specter and threaten them in the courthouse.
What is a bird?
At the end of act 3, Rev. Hale is so disgusted with the process that he does this.
What is denouncing the proceedings and quitting the court?
The reason Danforth presses Proctor so hard to confess.
What is needing the confession of a prominent citizen to justify the hangings?