importance of reputation through his characters‚ Reverend Parris‚ John Hale‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ and Giles Corey. In The Crucible‚ some characters will do anything to protect their reputation and others do not seem to worry. One character that lives and
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currentColor; vertical-align: bottom;" ADVERTISEMENT The Crucible Summary How It All Goes Down Act I of The Crucible opens with Salem’s minister‚ the Reverend Parris‚ watching over his sick daughter Betty‚ wondering what is wrong with her. We soon learn that the entire town is buzzing with rumors that Betty is sick because of witchcraft. Rev. Parris had seen both Betty and his niece Abigail dancing in the forest with his slave‚ Tituba‚ the night before. That evening in the forest‚ he also saw a cauldron
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the play? (b) What were she and her cousin Abigail doing the night before? 2. Summarize Abigail’s prior relationship with the Proctors. 3. Who is Reverend Hale? Why is he contacted? 4. What seems to be the main motivation for Reverend Parris’s concern about Abigail and Betty’s behavior in the forest? 5. (a) When Reverend Parris leaves the room‚ Abigail‚ Mercy‚ Mary‚ and Betty talk in private. What does their discussion revel? (b) How does this scene hint at events that will occur
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evidence--share great similarities with the “witch hunts” of the McCarthy Era. The first great example of McCarthyism in The Crucible appears in Act One when Reverend Parris first becomes a major character in the tragedy in his confrontational interaction with Abigail. On pages 915-16‚ Betty is in a comatose state and will not wake. Reverend Parris visits the house and questions Abigail‚ immediately suspecting witchcraft (with little outside evidence‚ most of it is to keep his good name in the village
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Arthur Miller Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? 2. Why is the Reverend Samuel Parris so distraught at the beginning of Act One? What unnerves him about the report Susanna Walcott brings from Doctor Griggs? Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? 3. What do we learn in the exposition of the play about the events in the forest? About Abigail Williams’s past connections with the Proctor family
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their traditional Godly beliefs. Reputations also played a big role in the play. Throughout the book‚ you see characters such as Reverend Parris‚ Reverend Hale‚ and Rebecca Nurse’s reputations play a big role in the way that people view and treat them. The reputations of certain characters also lead them to act certain ways about certain situations. In the play‚ Mr. Parris is the minister of the church in Salem. He is quite paranoid‚ especially in Act I‚ because his young daughter Betty is ill‚ and
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secret was his affair with Abigail Williams‚ who was once a servant to the Proctors and was the niece of Reverend Parris. John Proctor transforms from being minding his own business to becoming the center of the witchcraft trials in Salem. This dilemma started when Reverend Parris stumbled upon Abigail Williams‚ Betty Parris‚ his daughter‚ and his slave Tituba in the forest. Reverend Parris believed that they were practicing witchcraft. Witchcraft was not tolerated under any circumstances in Puritan
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other girls‚ Tituba‚ Proctor‚ and others are to be blamed for the deaths and events in Salem‚ but Reverend Parris seems to have the bigger faults. Parris’s childish and avaricious characteristics caused the deaths of many innocent people. Reverend Parris enacted an essential role in the Crucible as an eyewitness who should have contributed a greater amount to the Salem Witch Trials. Not only did Parris commence the trials due to his selfishness‚ but he also kept crucial information from the Court
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The play “The Crucible” was published in 1953 by Arthur Miller and takes place in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem witch trials. The night before the actual action begins‚ Reverend Parris had discovered his daughter Betty‚ his niece Abigail Williams‚ his slave Tituba and some other girls in the woods‚ where they were performing an occult blood ritual and casting spells. Soon the rumor that something supernatural is going on in the village spreads and puts the village in turmoil. Abigail
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at very high temperatures; thus a severe trial or test). Get ready to have your brain melted!! List of Characters Reverend Parris -- vicious‚ shallow‚ cowardly‚ villainous‚ peacock of a man (former merchant in Barbados) using God as a pretense to extort whatever riches he can out of the already economically strained villagers in Salem. Betty Parris -- daughter to Reverend Parris‚ mother is dead. One of the afflicted girls. She suffers from a malediction that clears up when the adults leave the
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