Act 4 : Tituba is in the jail with Sarah Good, acting as if she very much believes in the Devil. She and Goody Good are hustled out by Herrick to make way for the judges. Susanna works for Doctor Griggs and is described by Miller as " a little younger than Abigail, a nervous, hurried girl " p. Eventually, she joins in with Abigail, Betty, Mercy, and Mary as the "afflicted girls" who accuse others of witchcraft.
Mercy is a servant to the Putnams and seems to be the particular caretaker of Ruth. She also appears friendly with Abigail Williams which makes sense, as they were dancing in the woods together and contemptuous of Mary Warren. Mercy is described by Miller as " a fat, sly, merciless [get it, get it, because her name is MERCY yet she shows no mercy] girl of eighteen " p. She gets to confer with Abigail about getting their stories straight about what happened in the woods since Mercy was apparently running around naked in the woods before she's sent away to get Doctor Griggs for Ruth.
Act 4 : Parris says that he believes Mercy has run away with his niece, Abigail Williams p. Ann Putnam is wife to Thomas Putnam and the mother of the afflicted Ruth who we never see onstage and seven other dead children who we also never see onstage — because they're dead. There appears to be some friction between her and Rebecca Nurse, possibly because Rebecca Nurse has many living children and grandchildren while Ann only has the one child; it also seems that Rebecca may have chided Ann in the past for not being up to snuff p.
Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca! So clearly the woman has some issues. Ann is ready and willing to believe any explanation for why her children died except that it was natural causes understandable for a grieving mother. Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times. I begged you, Thomas, did I not? I begged him not to call Osburn because I feared her.
My babies always shriveled in her hands! Thomas Putnam is husband to Ann Putnam and father of the afflicted Ruth.
Described by Miller as " a well-to-do, hard-handed landowner, near fifty " p. Francis is described by Miller as "one of those men for whom both sides of the argument had to have respect," although "as he gradually paid for [the land he'd originally rented] and raised his social status, there were those who resented his rise" p. Basically, Francis is seen as a fair and upstanding citizen of Salem, although there are some who resent his social-climbing.
Act 1 : Thomas Putnam floats her name as a possible witch p. Act 4 : The first and only time Sarah Good appears onstage is at the beginning of this act: she is hanging out with Tituba in the jail, acting a little crazy, and seeming to see the Devil. Elizabeth that he "knows [John Proctor] well" p. Act 2 : Cheever comes to arrest Elizabeth Proctor on orders from the court; he is convinced of her guilt when he finds a poppet with a needle stuck in it p.
Act 3 : Cheever testifies about his experience with Goody Proctor and John Proctor in the previous Act finding the poppet after Elizabeth denied keeping them, John ripping up the arrest warrant ; though he prefaces his testimony with an apology to Proctor. Herrick is the marshal for the court system in Salem, which is to say that he is the person sent to gather up prisoners, stop people from leaving the court and from attacking other people in the court, and lead convicted witches to be hanged.
Act 2 : Along with Cheever, Herrick comes to the Proctors' house to take Elizabeth Proctor away to the jail, as per orders of the court.
He also shepherds the prisoners Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse back and forth between the cells, the main room, and ultimately the gallows.
Judge Hathorne is a Salem judge presiding over the witchcraft trials. Judge Hathorne appears in Acts 3 and 4 of The Crucible. Act 3 : Hathorne is very concerned with all civilians showing the proper respect to the court and the law although he's less shrill about it than Parris is. Fun fact : The character of Judge Hathorne is based on the historical Hathorne who was so reviled that his descendant, author Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables , changed the spelling of his last name to avoid being associated with him.
At the time of the events in the play, Danforth is the Deputy Governor of the entire Province of Massachusetts. Danforth oversees all of the court proceedings in the play as the highest legal authority. He is described by Miller as " a grave man in his sixties, of some humor and sophistication that do not, however, interfere with an exact loyalty to his position and his cause " p. While no one in the play seems to like him, exactly, he does command respect from most of the characters, at least at first - as the play continues and it becomes clear that Danforth is more concerned about procedure than justice, characters including Giles Corey and John Proctor vocally display their loss of respect for Danforth.
Act 3 : The audience first sees Danforth in his position as the presiding court judge for the witch trials. Act 4 : Danforth fills the audience in on what has been going on in Salem between Acts 3 and 4.
He continues to lack detectable emotions and base his decisions on legality e. When he senses that John Proctor might not be entirely aboveboard in his confession, he warns that if Proctor is lying about being a witch, then he can't stop Proctor from hanging; when Proctor rips up his confession, Danforth feels no qualms about sending him to the gallows p.
Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption! He sweeps out past them. In one case, a character actually has more lines from offstage Martha Corey than another character does onstage Hopkins , while in other cases these offstage, unseen characters are used to move along the action of the play.
Martha Corey is the third wife of Giles Corey, accused of witchcraft directly by Walcott and indirectly by Giles himself. We learn through Francis Nurse that Martha Corey is highly thought of in town - or at least, she was until she was accused of witchcraft p.
While Martha never appears onstage, she is mentioned in all four acts and has three offstage lines in Act 3. Act 1 : Giles first brings up his suspicions that Martha's bookishness is somehow causing him to falter at his prayers despite the fact that he only started regularly going to church when he married her, and so "it didn't take much to make him stumble over [his prayers]" p.
Act 3 : Martha is heard from offstage being questioned by Judge Hathorne about witchcraft at the opening of the act; later, she is mentioned as being one of two accused witches who 91 people declared their good opinion of in a petition p. According to Ruth's parents, Ruth was sent by her mother to Tituba to figure out who supernaturally murdered Ruth's seven dead infant siblings; this is no doubt the reason why Ruth "never waked this morning, but her eyes open and she walks, and hears naught, sees naught, and cannot eat" p.
While she never appears onstage, Ruth and her strange illness is used in absentia to corroborate the presence of some supernatural evil in Salem during Act 1. Ruth is only brought up again a couple of times during the rest of the play: in Act 3, the audience learns that Ruth is said to have accused George Jacobs of being a witch p. The name of Goody Osburn first comes up in Act 1, when she is suggested by Thomas Putnam as a possible witch p.
This suggestion is then corroborated by the accusations of Tituba p. In Act 2, we learn that Good Osburn is the first witch to be condemned to hang in Salem p.
His name briefly comes up in Act 2 as the owner of a heifer John Proctor is thinking about buying for his wife p. The accusation that Ruth had basically handed her father George Jacobs' property by accusing him of witchcraft, however, is never brought to trial because Giles refuses to reveal the name of the person who told him about Putnam's words; therefore, George Jacobs becomes the indirect cause of Giles being arrested for contempt of court and, ultimately, pressed to death.
Bridget Bishop is a tavern proprietor in Salem p. He's also the employer of Susanna Walcott. In addition to all the characters who we've previously discussed, there are also several other people mentioned over the course of the play. Some of these names are useful to know because they give context to character relationships that shape how events unfold in The Crucible for instance, James Bayley is the brother-in-law of Putnam who was passed over for minister of Salem due to opposition by other townspeople, including Francis Nurse, which causes bad blood between the two families.
Some of the other names might be useful if your teacher asks you to list off people accused of witchcraft over the course of the play, or to list people who accused others of witchcraft. Whatever the reason, if you want a list of every name mentioned in The Crucible , we're here for you: see below for the nittiest-of-the-grittiest table of all the named people in The Crucible. Son of Elizabeth and John Proctor.
Is not the person who snared the rabbit eaten for dinner by John and Elizabeth in Act 2. A demonstration of self-preservation in the novel is when Atticus is cross-examining Mayella Ewell in court.
Carol continuously goes back to meet with John alone in his office even after she filed the accusations against him. Throughout the play, Carol seemed to almost want John to actually sexually assault or even go as far as rape her like in her accusations. The first way is they send Tituba to the court. Tituba is the first person that people accused witchcraft. The last way is that Batty is sickened,.
She knows that he ended the relationship with Abigail and is adamant about making things right with her, his wife. Abigail knows this and wants John to want her again so she has devised a plan that will not only get rid of Elizabeth but anyone else that she has beef with.
Her severe test was to say the truth or deny it. Elizabeth deny it the affair, she want to save John reputacion, then she lie about it. Instead of save John he got more in trouble. Marie would often fight with Antoinette over how her dedication to Emile was greater than to her family.
When Emile was arrested for murder, Antoinette had stood by his side and relentlessly insisted that he was innocent. However, it is later revealed that he had an affair with Abigail Williams, as she turns the whole town to chaos to be with him. When Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft by Abigail, Proctor uses logos to convince the court especially Danforth, that his wife is innocent and the girls were lying about their accusations.
Yet, the mass hysteria has engulfed the court, making any use of logic useless. The main character Abigail in the play The Crucible is in a flawed society and in order to survive she is mischievous and has to lie about things in order to survive. She wants John Proctor to herself and his wife dead.
But along the way something called witchcraft comes along and it isn't that good. If you say you were doing witchcraft you're safe from hanging but if you refuse to witchcraft you will be hung. This evidence that proves his act of tearing up the confession is believable. Even though he committed the crime of lechery the act at the end is still believable.
Judge Danforth, by siding with Abigail is unfair and is only being manipulated by Abigail. Abigail realizes how oblivious Danforth is and takes advantage of him.
Towards the end of Act three, while Hale is convinced that Proctor had told the truth Danforth takes side with Abigail. Abigail cleverly takes advantage of Danforth's oblivion towards his colleague and whips up another act to further convince her claims.
William Gaddis is getting at that power itself does not corrupt people it is what they do with it. First Danforth has the power to do what he wants when it comes to the court. Next, Abigail shows how manipulative she can be to people. Abby was just a girl, she loved to pretend.
She and the other girls of Salem loved it, they danced in the woods and pretended to be witches. That is until they were found by Reverend Parris, after which two girls pretended to be bewitched because they were afraid of the consequences. This is the beginning of the chaos that would consume Salem, ending in almost 20 innocents hung. Can a crime based on superstition be fully and justly taken to court?
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