The Crucible- Characterization

Direct or Indirect Characterization
Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters- a strikingly beautiful girl with an endless capacity for dissembling. 

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Mercy Lewis, the Putnams' servant, a fat, sly, merciless girl of eighteen.

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Direct or Indirect Characterization of Mercy
Have you tried beatin' her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her.

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Mary Warren is a subservient, naive, lonely girl of seventeen.

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Direct or Indirect Characterization of Abigail
[Grasping his hand before he can release her] John, I am waitin' for you every night.

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Direct or Indirect Characterization
Rebecca walks across the room to the bed. Gentleness exudes from her.

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Direct or Indirect Characterization of Rebecca
Rebecca: I think she'll wake in time. Pray, calm yourselves.

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She is a twisted soul of forty-five, a death-ridden woman. 

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Direct or Indirect Characterization of Giles
He knew I'd break his fingers before he'd set his name to it. 

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Direct or Indirect Characterization of Putnam
I'll have my men on you, Corey! I'll clap a writ on you!

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