... Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, dislike him, and Parris is very concerned with building his position in the community. Rebecca Nurse Francis Nurse's wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, held in tremendous regard by most of the Salem community. However, she falls victim ... , by making scapegoats of people like Proctor who question his authority. The wealthy, ambitious Thomas Putnam gains revenge on Francis Nurse by getting Rebecca, Francis's virtuous wife, convicted of the supernatural murders of Ann Putnam's babies. In the end, hysteria can thrive only b...

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... act of penance. To avoid being hanged many people in The Crucible confessed to sins they did not commit. Fearing that she would be damned forever Rebecca Nurse refused to confess. Adultery was one of the worst sins someone could commit. The Puritans also thought that anything pleasant was the work of the ... 60). Overland writes that Miller tends to confuse the characters with the real people with the same names from the seventeenth century, such as Parris, Putnam, Rebecca, and Francis Nurse (60). Conflict between a man's raw deeds and his conception of himself, poses as the struggle f...

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... , which gave a disproportionate amount to one of his stepbrothers. What comments can you make about the characters of Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, John Proctor, Reverend Parris and Mr. Hale? Rebecca Nurse is a highly respected member of the community, a law abiding and innocent victim. Rebecca Nurse was also envied by Mrs. Putnam as she has eleven children and twenty six grand children. Giles Corey ... now serving as the anteroom of the General Court. What are the three petitions presented to Deputy-Governor Danforth? 1) Ninety on signatures from people testifying to the good nature of Re...

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... that they would be the next people to become a possessed victim of their mysterious black magic. The villagers went from the four-year-old girl to seventy-one-year-old Rebecca Nurse followed by forty-seven-year-old Elizabeth Proctor. Both of these women who were from very wealthy, prosperous homes, were imprisoned because people thought ... Rebecca Nurse's mother and Proctor's grandmother practiced black magic when they were alive. At this point, anyone who was a family member of an accused witch was most likely to wind up ... court bothered to think that the witnesses could be lying ...

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