Giles Corey Quotes

Reverend Parris, worried for his own job, explains to Abigail that her “punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.” Even the idea of witchcraft in Reverend Parris’s house could ruin his reputation in the town and therefore risk his job. By Betty being ‘afflicted’, she is holding power over her own father and his position in the town. She knows that the longer she is asleep, the more desperate her father is going to be blame someone for the witchcraft who is not her. Putnam claims that “There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep herself in the dark. Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more” (16). Putnam is yet another powerful male figure in Salem Betty has taken a grip over in the town. He, in this quote, truly believes that the devil is among the town of Salem based on Betty’s current condition. Reverend Hale, encouraging Tituba to give more names of witches, tells her to look at Betty’s “god- given innocence; her soul is so tender; we must protect her; Tituba; the Devil is out and preying on her like a beast upon the flesh of a pure lamb. God will bless you for your help”. (47) Betty has convinced Reverend Hale and the others that she is the

Abigail Williams a sixteen year old girl worked as a maiden for Elizabeth and John Proctor; she fell in love with John and he had an affair with her. Elizabeth found out and kicked Abigail out of their home and this started the hatred between the two of them. Abigail cared about no one except herself and John. Abigail and her friends were messing around with supernatural things in the woods and she asked Tituba to put a spell on Elizabeth that she

Reverend John Hale is the minister who is called in to investigate the witch trials in The Crucible. At first he believes them, but later he returns to the town to try and stop the trials. Deputy Governor Danforth is the judge at the witch trials. He is dedicated to removing all witches. He rules by the law and will not allow exceptions or anyone to try to undermine his court.

The accusations against Tituba began when Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, Tituba’s slave master’s daughter and niece, began to show signs of abnormal

("She sends her soul out on me in chapel; she influences me to snicker at prater!" "She comes to me consistently to go and drink blood!") Tituba was a slave meaning she has a lower status as is a simple focus for she is from Barbados and knows about dark enchantment making her suspicious. In this manner Tituba does the sudden by admitting to the false charges and naming different partners of the fiend. Understanding this Abigail does likewise and the young ladies take after. She initially blames the outsiders for society to get the help from the townsfolk knowing admirably that they will effectively trust it. She moves the consideration from herself by crying

Abigail Williams is Reverend Parris’s niece and is the most arrogant and deceitful character in the play, even more so than Danforth, Parris, and Putnam. Abigail uses her power and intimidation to manipulate friends and eventually the entire town into accusing others of alleged witchcraft. The start of Abigail’s terror is in response to John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth Proctor removing Abigail as

The governor of Massachusetts, William Phips, sent me a letter discussing the situation of the Salem Village. He selected me to become one of the five judges of the special witchcraft Court of Oyer and Terminer (Linder). This was a good news for me, even though I was afraid. The issues regarding witchcraft in Salem was very complicated to me. I had no previous training on this matter and learned everything about the situation from stories told by others. I was worried about my family members being afflicted or accused of witchcraft because there were lots of accusations made during that time.

Rumors and speculation was also a large role in reputation, Abigail Williams was very low on this ladder. She was an unmarried, poor, female, orphan, servant, all features that affected her reputation very negatively. Only above Tituba, a black slave, the lowest on the ladder you could be. But when suddenly Abigail is elevated to the most important person in town, bringing with her a dozen other such girls who could only hope to work as housekeepers until they married. Since the Witch Trials required the accused to provide the names of others suspected of witchcraft in order to redeem themselves, Tituba, whose race gave her the very lowest social status in Salem, found herself with the ability to decide the fates of people far more powerful than herself.

The beginning of the Salem Witch Trials started in the home of the Parris family. Before all of the witch crisis started, Samuel Parris was living in London with his father a “cloth merchant”. His father died when Samuel was in his early twenties, he did not have any money so he decided to move to the “New World”, America, to start his new life as an owner of a sugar plantation. His business soon failed. When it failed he went to school to become a minister (Ragosta). He went to Salem to find out that they were in need of a new minister and after “a year to make his decision” (Ragosta) he became the minister of Salem. He was high maintenance man when he became the minister “He saw his position as something demanding and deserving respect

Abigail was Parris ' niece. She lived with Parris because her own parents had been killed

Many people know about the witch trials in Salem, they are very well known across the nation. Saying that it caused terrible hysteria, it is hard not to hear about it. There are several figures that are to blame for this chaos but some that really seem to stick out the most are, John Proctor, Judge Danforth, and Reverend Parris.

The play opened with the girls doing something considered taboo in Puritan society, dancing in the woods. The girls involved in this were Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Mary Warren, Ruth Putnam, and a few others. Tituba, Reverend Parris’s slave from Barbados was also with them. All of the girls involved were caught by Reverend Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem. When Reverend Parris catches the girls dancing in the woods, his daughter Betty Parris becomes

Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old orphan being raised by her uncle Revered Parris, is a pivotal character in bringing about irrational fear in the people of Salem through her false accusations and struggle for acceptance. In the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is questioning Abigail Williams on the topic of whether

Fear and superstition are used to the advantage of Abigail’s uncle Reverend Samuel Parris along with Thomas and Elizabeth Putnam. Parris’ daughter betty does not wake after the Satanic ritual of which he witnessed in part (the bloody part), nor does the Putnam’s daughter Ruth. They call in the assistance of another minister and a county Judge to investigate Satan’s involvement with the ailments of these girls as well as the witches responsible for the spiritual chicanery that led these young ones astray. Tituba the Barbadian slave-girl gets blamed first (surprise) by Abigail. Tituba is thusly punished with an agonizing whipping until she confesses to the crime she didn’t commit, but is then spared a hanging. In this, Abigail, the awakened Betty and Ruth, and the rest of the girls see power and opportunity. Their own form of witchcraft takes hold.

Reverend Samuel Parris is motivated to sustain his reputation because he took years to build up his name. Some of the folks already see him as unfit as the reverend. Having the assumption that there are sinful practices taking place under his roof, he, at first, denies the involvement of witchcraft with the odd behavior Betty displays. However, when a majority of the townspeople believe in the involvement of witchery. He does not want his name and reputation to be tarnished due to witchcraft, so he plays along and supports Betty’s and Abigail’s accusations. He uses Tituba as a scapegoat to divert the suspicion towards him. Parris threatens to whip Tituba if she does not confess that she has dealings with the Devil, and pushes her to her breaking point. Parris is motivated to uphold his reputation and tries to divert the possible blame and suspicion towards him to