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Crucible
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| changes his mind on the trials, expert on "demonic arts" | Reverend Hale |
| had seven children die, Ruth 's mother | Ann Putnam |
| doesn't attend church regularly, tells court about his affair, hangs | John Proctor |
| orders 91 citizens arrested | Danforthe |
| wife of John Proctor, denies John's adultery, cold to John | Elizabeth Proctor |
| bitter over land, father of the seven children who died shortly after birth | Thomas Putnam |
| _preachers hellfire, Abigail's uncle, Betty Parris's dad | rev Parris |
| the judge that sentences many to hang | Hawthorne |
| servant of the Putnam's, was naked in the forest, ran off with Abigail | Mercy Lewis |
| Reverend Parris's daughter, comatose at the beginning of the play | Betty Parris |
| arrests Elizabeth Proctor, assists in court proceedings | Ezekiel Cheever |
| the Proctor's present servant, gives the poppet to Elizabeth | Mary Warren |
| Tries to defend his wife in court, Rebecca Nurse’s husband | Francis Nurse |
| leads the girls in accusations, Rev. Parris's niece, drank blood | Abigail |
| from Barbados--servant to Reverend Parris | Tituba |
| seventy-two-year-old woman, respected in Salem, refuses to confess | Rebecca Nurse |
| his wife is accused, he refuses to confess and is crushed with rocks | Giles Corey |
| “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a—” | Abigail |
| _"Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth. Believe me, sir, you have never saw more hearty babies born. And yet, each one would wither in my arms the very night of their birth." | Ann Putnam |
| "Spoke or silent, a promise is surely made. And she may dote on it now -I am sure she does- and thinks to kill me, then to take my place." | Elizabeth |
| _"I think you must go to Salem, John...I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud." | Elizabeth |
| ”She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it now.” | Goody Putnam |
| ”Excellency, I have signed 72 death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and i dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it.” | Reverend Hale |
| He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign . . .” | Mary Warren |
| ”I tell you straight, Mister— I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before my eyes by spirits; I have seen them stuck by pins and slashed by daggers. I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may | Danforth |
| _”I have three children, how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, when I sold my friends.” | John Proctor |
| Do what you will. But let none be your judge. There be no higher judge under Heaven than Proctor is! Forgive me, forgive me, John—I never knew such goodness in the world!” | Elizabeth |