These thorough study notes provide an in-depth analysis of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, an essential text in American theatre that explores the hysteria of the Salem witch trials and serves as a powerful allegory for McCarthyism. The notes include a detailed Character Map, offering clear relatio...
servant to Betty Parris:
father (gravely ill after night in the
Tituba: woods)
(conjures spirits with girls in Reverend Parris:
the woods) (minister in Salem)
Mercy Lewis:
accuses
uncle
(one of the girls in the
orders woods)
to lie
Sarah Good:
(beggar in Salem, first to be Abigail Williams:
accused) (leader of the girls in Susanna Walcott:
the woods) (one of the girls in the
woods)
former
lovers
Thomas Putnam: Mary Warren:
(Salem landowner) (one of the girls in the
ses
John Proctor: accu woods)
(Salem farmer)
married
Mrs Ann Putnam: married
(lost 7 children)
Elizabeth Procter:
(given doll with needle by
only accuses of Mary Warren)
surviving murder
child tries to save
Ruth Putnam: Rebecca Nurse:
(gravely ill after night in the (well respected wife of Reverend Hale:
woods ) landowner Francis Nurse) (minister summoned to
check for witchcraft )
Giles Corey: Deputy Governor
(husband of woman Danforth:
accused of witchcraft ) (judge)
orders
pressed to
death under
questioning
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