THE CRUCIBLE FINAL TEST NOTES GILES COREY WAS

THE CRUCIBLE FINAL TEST NOTES

GILES COREY • WAS AN OLD MAN WHO WAS TORTURED BY CRUSHING HIM WITH STONES

JUDGE DANFORTH • WOULD TOLERATE NO CHALLENGE TO HIS AUTHORITY

REVEREND JOHN HALE • INSTIGATOR OR THE INVESTIGATIONS WHO LATER DENOUNCED THEM

JOHN PROCTOR • WAS THE MAN WHOM ABIGAIL HOPED TO MARRY AFTER HIS WIFE WAS HANGED

MARY WARREN • SHE TRIED TO STOP THE TRIALS, THEN CHARGED PROCTOR

TITUBA • SLAVE WHO TAUGHT THE CHILDREN ABOUT “SPIRITS”

REBECCA NURSE • A WORTHY WOMAN PUT TO DEATH AS A WITCH

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS • GIRL WHO LED THE ACCUSATIONS

THOMAS PUTNAM • HE USED THE WITCH TALES TO CARRY OUT PERSONAL VENGEANCE

REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS • MINISTER WHO FEARED THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM

CONFLICT • IN OUR MODERN WORLD, THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IS REPRESENTED IN THE PLAY.

IF YOU CONFESSED, • YOU ESCAPED EXECUTION

THERE WERE THREE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE WITCH TRIALS • RESENTMENT AMONG NEIGHBORS • THEOCRATIC LEADERSHIP OF SALEM • SOCIAL INSTABILITY

HOW DID ELIZABETH PROCTOR CONDEMN HERSELF? • SHE LIED ABOUT JOHN’S AFFAIR WITH ABIGAIL

JOHN PROCTOR WAS • A FARMER

REVEREND HALE CAME TO SALEM • WITH AN ATTITUDE OF OPTIMISM AND CONFIDENCE

MARY WARREN • WITHDRAWS HER TESTIMONY WHEN SHE REALIZES THAT THE OTHER GIRLS ARE ACCUSING HER OF WITCHCRAFT

JOHN PROCTOR CONFESSES TO THE AFFAIR BECAUSE • HE WANTS TO CLEAR HIS CONSCIENCE • HE WANTS TO DISCREDIT ABIGAIL’S TESTIMONY

THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS INSTIGATE THE INVESTIGATIONS • THEN CONDEMNED THEM: JUDGE HAWTHORNE AND REVEREND HALE

WHY IS DANFORTH UNABLE TO PARDON JOHN PROCTOR? • IT WOULD CAST DOUBT ON THE GUILT OF THOSE ALREADY EXECUTED

REVEREND PARRIS’ IDEA OF THEOLOGY IS • HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE

WHY DOES PARRIS WANT PROCTOR TO CONFESS? • HE KNOWS HE IS INNOCENT

GILES COREY WAS NOT CONDEMNED AS A WIZARD • BY REFUSING TO ANSWER THE CHARGES

RUTH PUTNAM • WAS SENT TO SEE THE SOULS OF HER DEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS

A WITCH WAS EXECUTED • BY HANGING

ELIZABETH WAS NOT EXECUTED • BECAUSE SHE WAS PREGNANT

HATHORNE BELIEVED THAT THE CHILDREN’S ACCUSATIONS WERE MOTIVATED BY • THE VOICE OF GOD

JOHN PROCTOR • WAS FREQUENTLY ABSENT FROM CHURCH BECAUSE HE DISLIKED THE MINISTER

SYMBOLS • PARRIS’ MATERIALISM – GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS • UNREST IN THE VILLAGE – DAGGER • PLAYTHING GIVEN EVIL CONNOTATIONS - POPPET

SYMBOLS • CHAINS – SYMBOL OF BONDAGE • UNASSAILABLE AUTHORITY –HATHORNE • GOODLINESS AND GODLINESS – REBECCA NURSE

SYMBOLS • THEOCRATIC LEADER –REVEREND PARRIS • FORBIDDEN PLEASURE – DANCING • EVIL AND TRICKERY –ABIGAIL WILLIAMS • THE VOICE OF REASON –JOHN PROCTOR