Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale? Hale is the expert in witchcraft and Parris thinks something is going on What sad events have tormented the Putnam family?
They lost 7 children. What can you deduce from the fact that Ann Putnam sent Ruth to conjure with Tituba? She believes that Tituba can really talk to her dead children. Explain the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams? They had an affair while Abigail was employed by the proctor household then she was dismissed by his wife Describe the relationship between the Putnam and Nurse families.
The Nurse family is good and the Putnam family is bad. The Nurse families has good values but The Putnam family is greedy and jealous. What causes the conflict between John Proctor and Reverend Parris? John says that Reverend Parris is a bad minister and that is why he barely goes to church. Reverend Hale is an expert on witchcraft. What causes the crying out of names at the end of the act? Betty and Abigail are crying out who they saw with the devil. The Crucible Flashcards.
Parris, Mercy, and the Putnams rush into the room. Rebecca Nurse, an elderly woman, joins them. Her husband, Francis Nurse, is highly respected in Salem, and many people ask him to arbitrate their disputes.
Over the years, he gradually bought up the acres that he once rented, and some people resent his success. He and Thomas Putnam bitterly disputed a matter of land boundaries.
Giles Corey , a muscular, wiry eighty-three-year-old farmer, joins the crowd in the room as Rebecca stands over Betty. Rebecca assures everyone that Ruth and Betty are probably only suffering from a childish fit, derived from overstimulation.
Proctor asks if Parris consulted the legal authorities or called a town meeting before he asked Reverend Hale to uncover demons in Salem. Rebecca fears that a witch-hunt will spark even more disputes. Putnam demands that Parris have Hale search for signs of witchcraft.
Proctor reminds Putnam that he cannot command Parris and states that Salem does not grant votes on the basis of wealth. Parris and Giles bicker over the question of whether Parris should be granted six pounds for firewood expenses. Parris claims that the six pounds are part of his salary and that his contract stipulates that the community provide him with firewood. Parris replies that he does not want the community to be able to toss him out on a whim; his possession of the deed will make it more difficult for citizens to disobey the church.
Parris contends that Proctor does not have the right to defy his religious authority. Parris declares that Proctor belongs to a faction in the church conspiring against him. Putnam and Proctor argue over the proper ownership of a piece of timberland where Proctor harvests his lumber. Putnam claims that his grandfather left the tract of land to him in his will. Putnam, growing irate, threatens to sue Proctor. In Puritan Salem, young women such as Abigail, Mary, and Mercy are largely powerless until they get married.
As a young, unmarried servant girl, Mary is expected to obey the will of her employer, Proctor, who can confine her to his home and even whip her for disobeying his orders. Proctor, in his first appearance, is presented as a quick-witted, sharp-tongued man with a strong independent streak.
These traits would seem to make him a good person to question the motives of those who cry witchcraft. However, his guilt over his affair with Abigail makes his position problematic because he is guilty of the very hypocrisy that he despises in others.
Abigail, meanwhile, is clearly not over their affair. In one sense, Abigail accuses him of destroying her innocence by taking her virginity. In another sense, she also accuses him of showing her the extent to which hypocrisy governs social relations in Salem. Her secret desire to remove Elizabeth Proctor from her path to John Proctor drives the hysteria that soon develops.
Parris is one of the least appealing characters in the play. Suspicious and grasping, he has a strong attachment to the material side of life. It is obvious that his emphasis on hellfire and damnation is, at least in part, an attempt to coerce the congregation into giving him more material benefits out of guilt. Parris, Miller mentions in an aside to the audience, was once a merchant in Barbados.
His commercialist zeal shows in the way he uses sin as a sort of currency to procure free firewood and free houses.
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