Crucible/Puritan test

Main judge in the trials who is concerned with his reputation and the court’

• Danforth

• Hathorne

• Parris

• Hale

Minister in Salem who is more worried about his reputation than well being of others

• Hale

• Putnam

• Proctor

• Parris

He is concerned over his wife’s reading; he is eventually pressed to death

• Francis Nurse

• Giles Corey

• Thomas Putnam

• George Jacobs

Minister who is an authority on witchcraft; he quits the court

• Hale

• Parris

• Putnam

• Hathorne

Proctor’s current servant; unintentionally plants evidence against Elizabeth

• Mercy Lewis

• Mary Warren

• Ruth Putnam

• Abigail Williams

Inspiration for the play; accused many Americans of being Communists

• McCarthyism

• McConnerism

• Cormack McCarthy

• Salem Witch Trials

Respected midwife and pillar of community; is hung with Proctor at the end

• Sarah Good

• Sarah Osburn

• Rebecca Nurse

• Rebecca Corey

Convicted because she cannot say her commandments in court

• Goody Good

• Goody Putnam

• Goody Osburn

• Goody Nurse

His affair causes most of the play’s problems; doesn’t want to lose his name

• Proctor

• Putnam

• Parris

• Prater

A story that on one level is a literal story, and on another level is a symbolic story

• allusion

• alliteration

• allegory

• alignment