Abigail's strengths include determination and intelligence. She is...
Abigail's strengths include determination and intelligence. She is determined both to win back her former lover, John Proctor, as well as to exact revenge on any in her community who have impugned her...
View ArticleIn Act I, when Thomas Putnam accuses John Proctor of hardly ever coming...
In Act I, when Thomas Putnam accuses John Proctor of hardly ever coming to Sabbath day services, Proctor retorts, I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear [Parris] preach only hellfire...
View ArticleArthur Miller's intrusions into the play help readers to better...
Arthur Miller's intrusions into the play help readers to better understand these complicated characters because he offers us quite a bit of insight into their fictional lives. For example, he tells...
View ArticleAs the play begins, the audience understands that John and Elizabeth...
As the play begins, the audience understands that John and Elizabeth Proctor, a couple in their thirties, had employed Abigail Williams, a seventeen-year-old girl, as household help while Elizabeth...
View ArticleWhat quotes in The Crucible show that Reverend Parris mentions hell a...
What quotes in The Crucible show that Reverend Parris mentions hell a lot in his sermons?
View ArticleWhy is Reverend Parris praying at the beginning of Act One?
Why is Reverend Parris praying at the beginning of Act One?
View ArticleWhy are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from...
Why are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from Sabbath meeting?
View ArticleWhat are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in...
What are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in The Crucible?
View ArticleBefore the action of the play begins, what have Betty Parris and her...
Before the action of the play begins, what have Betty Parris and her friends been doing?
View ArticleOn the night before the play begins, Betty Parris and her cousin,...
On the night before the play begins, Betty Parris and her cousin, Abigail Williams, as well as some other local girls, went dancing in the forest with Reverend Parris's Barbadian slave, Tituba....
View ArticleWhy is Reverend Parris praying at the beginning of Act One?
Why is Reverend Parris praying at the beginning of Act One?
View ArticleWhy are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from...
Why are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from Sabbath meeting?
View ArticleWhat are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in...
What are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in The Crucible?
View ArticleBefore the action of the play begins, what have Betty Parris and her...
Before the action of the play begins, what have Betty Parris and her friends been doing?
View ArticleWhat is a good quote from Act 1 that proves that Reverend Parris is...
What is a good quote from Act 1 that proves that Reverend Parris is selfish and greedy?
View ArticleIt doesn't seem as though there is any very special relationship between...
It doesn't seem as though there is any very special relationship between the Reverend Parris and Mr. Putnam. Putnam is one of the first people to arrive at Parris's house when Betty Parris falls ill,...
View ArticleIn an exchange between Giles Corey, John Proctor, and Reverend Parris in...
In an exchange between Giles Corey, John Proctor, and Reverend Parris in Act One, Parris complains he has been waiting for the firewood he claims is part of his contract. Giles corrects him, saying,...
View ArticleWhy are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from...
Why are some people including John Proctor inclined to stay away from Sabbath meeting?
View ArticleWhat are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in...
What are the strengths, flaws, and motivations of Abigail Williams in The Crucible?
View ArticleIn The Crucible, who called Elizabeth out and why?
In The Crucible, who called Elizabeth out and why?
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