The Crucible

The Crucible, Act One 1. Reverend Parris is the minister of the village. He is Betty’s father and Abigail’s uncle. Abigail lives with them. 2. Tituba is the servant from Barbados for the Parris family. 3. Betty is in bed pretending to be sick. She is unresponsive and seems to be sleeping.

The Crucible, Act One 4. The doctor can’t find a medical reason for Betty’s behavior. 5. The Putnams are neighbors who have a sick daughter, Ruth. They suggest Betty is witched because Tom Putnam is angry his brother in law didn’t become minister. 6. He worries that she has jeopardized his position as minister.

The Crucible, Act One 7. Ruth is the Putnams’ daughter. She is acting the same as Betty. The connection is they were both in the forest the night before. 8. The girls were in the forest dancing. They were with Tituba who made a potion and Abigail wished that Proctor’s wife would die. Some drank blood.

The Crucible, Act One 9. She says she will bring a pointy reckoning in the dark night. This reveals she is manipulative, violent, and a bully. 10. Proctor is handsome, upstanding in the community, and strong. He speaks the truth and calls out others who are false.

The Crucible, Act One 11. Abigail and John had an affair. 12. She said Elizabeth told lies about her and called her a cold, sniveling woman. 13. Francis Nurse was in a land battle with Putnam. The Nurses also prevent Putnam’s brother in law from becoming minister.

The Crucible, Act One 14. Rebecca says Betty is playing and will come around when she bores of this game. 15. Parris only speaks about hell and damnation during his sermons. They also say he is only concerned about money and the deed to his house.

The Crucible, Act One 16. Putnam’s father left the largest portion of land to the stepbrother and was denied when he tried to break the will. 17. Giles is old, new to religion, and grumpy. 18. Reverend Hale is educated and takes his role as demonologist very seriously.

The Crucible, Act One 19. Hale fires questions at Tituba and makes her nervous. During the conversation, Tituba realizes that to save herself, she must accuse others. 20. The girls join in on the accusations when they see Tituba is not in trouble. The girls are motivated by their involvement in dancing in the woods and want to get out of trouble. Eleven are accused.

The Crucible, Act Two 1. They have issues in their marriage because of John’s affair and Elizabeth doesn’t trust him. She is a good housewife and he is trying to earn her trust again. 2. This scene is to show the reader how tense their relationship is from the affair.

The Crucible, Act Two 3. Mary brings her a poppet (a rag doll). 4. She reports that many are being accused of witchcraft. Her role in the trial is to report whether or not she has witnessed any witchcraft. John doesn’t want his household involved in the trials. 5. 39

The Crucible, Act Two 6. You have to confess that you are a witch. 7. Mary Warren has a role in the trials now and she is threatening Elizabeth with this comment.

The Crucible, Act Two 8. Hale comes to investigate the Proctor household. He may be called as a witness during the trial. 9. Abigail accused Elizabeth because she wants John Proctor as her own. 10. He forgets adultery. This is significant because he committed adultery with Abigail.

The Crucible, Act Two 11. Walcott bought the pig from Corey and she won’t give the money back to Walcott. He says she bewitched the pig and that’s why it died. 12. allusion: reference to another piece of lit. He compares Hale to PP because he knows something is wrong but won’t stand up and speak the truth.

The Crucible, Act Two 13. He wants Mary to tell that she put the pin in the doll because Abigail told her to. She won’t tell because she is afraid of what Abigail will do to her. 14. Her motives are to keep Abigail happy. She gave her the poppet to make Elizabeth look guilty. 15. She confesses. 16. They believed she was out of the Devil’s control if she confessed.

The Crucible, Act Two 17. Vengeance 18. Abigail’s motivation for accusing Elizabeth; Walcott’s accusation of Corey. 19. Proctor says this ironic statement because the trials themselves are black mischief and evil. 20. She is a kind and a good Christian woman. 21. He is the one that Elizabeth told John to go to about Abigail.

The Crucible, Act Three 1. They are trying to gather evidence to prove Martha Corey is innocent. 2. The others accused present evidence on behalf of Martha Corey.

The Crucible, Act Three 3. They accuse whoever comes to the defense of being a witch. 4. He confesses to adultery. 5. He tries to explain the motivation behind Abigail’s accusation of her to save Elizabeth.

The Crucible, Act Three 6. Mary tells him it was all pretend. 7. Elizabeth tells him John never committed adultery, and John is imprisoned as a liar. 8. He tells John she is pregnant. 9. They will not hang Elizabeth until after the baby is born.

The Crucible, Act Three 10. It is a testimony of the good qualities of Elizabeth, Rebecca and Corey. There are 91 signatures. 11. Mary has never seen spirits or experienced them.

The Crucible, Act Three 12. This is true because you can’t be in the middle when it deals with the law or the courts. 13. If you do what is right, no harm will come to you because you are honest with God.

The Crucible, Act Three 14. Corey claims that Putnam wanted Jacob’s property and accused him. He mentions a witness to this but won’t give the name. 15. He withholds the name of the witness. 16. If they signed the Devil’s book. 17. Hale is beginning to realize that the trials are evil, and people are making false accusations.

The Crucible, Act Three 18. Mary cannot faint. Hathorne points out that if she can’t pretend faint, she must have fainted earlier from the witches. 19. He had an affair with Abigail. 20. Elizabeth tries to say John is lying about the affair in order to save her. 21. She says John is a witch and has been bewitching her.

The Crucible, Act Three 22. Hale says Abigail seems false to him and he views Proctor as an honest man. 23. The girls start to repeat Mary’s words and act like Mary’s spirit is attacking them. Mary is confused and bullied. 24. Opinion

The Crucible, Act Four 1. Morning 2. Mr. Hale and others in the town urge those accused to confess to save themselves. 3. Herrick is drunk. 4. Abigail because the truth is out about her having an affair with John.

The Crucible, Act Four 5. 12 have hanged and it’s not fair that the others accused are still alive. 6. orphans are wandering house to house; abandoned cattle are loose on the roads; rotting crops and making the town smell; no one knows if they will be accused and die. 7. John Proctor

The Crucible, Act Four 8. No 9. His property would stay in family and he kept his good name. 10. more weight 11. He will not sign a document confessing to witchcraft. 12. whether or not to confess

The Crucible, Act Four 13. She doesn’t want her husband to die, but she won’t order him to confess. 14. He will not incriminate others who have been accused. 15. He will not tarnish his name; it is all he has. 16. Proctor thinks Danforth is using him to get others to confess.

The Crucible, Act Four 17. Proctor tears it up. 18. He does not sign a confession, so he is hanged. 19. Proctor has remained true to himself and not lied and confessed. 20. opinion

The Crucible, Act Four

The Crucible, Act Four

The Crucible, Act Four

The Crucible, Act Four