... asking her why she hasn't been requested to work for another family, the duplicitous girl vehemently exclaims, "Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!"" (12). This went on seven months before the events of the play began. She had established her "good girl"" reputation earlier in Act I. The girls had gone into the forest the night before to conjure up Ruth Putnam's dead sisters and have their ... when Goody Proctor is brought up. Abigail houses great envy for Elizabeth, even believing herself superior to her. This obsession for Proctor comes to light when he enters the room to see what every...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ultimately recanted her confession. Betty Parris Reverend Parris's ten-year-old daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft. Martha Corey Giles Corey's third wife. Martha's reading habits lead to her arrest and conviction for witchcraft. Ezekiel Cheever A ... man from Salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials. He is upright and determined to do his duty for justice. Judge Hathorne ... witches in Salem, there were certai...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to this. He will immediately turn to the darkness. Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what ... "such personifications [and] marvelous interpretations"32 as to reveal their own morbid fascination with the unnatural. Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorr...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School