The Crucible...Role of Women

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MAJOR EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT!

More throughout other character bubbles

Anytime Abigail and the girls act as if they are being tortured (see highlighted portions in text)

Whenever the husband's are talking to their wives... as if they are servants... "See highlighted phrases inthe actual text.

Nurse

Speaks up on behalf of the women and says that the judges have been deceived

Danforth

Deputy Governor

Did not view the women as trustworthy when they were accused

Judge presiding over the trials

Mary

had power in the court because she could fake being tormented by the accused on the stand

One of the girls that sat in the proceedings

Tituba

Ended up confessing to witchcraft

From Barbados

One of the first to be accused of Witchcraft

Servant to Abigail and her family

Proctor

His own wife allowed him to be hung (she had the power to save him, and she chose not to)

Got accused of Witchcraft

Treated women as objects (cheated on his wife with Abigail

Ann

Accused many of witchraft

Wife to Thomas Putnam

Paris

Reverend for the Church

The Role of Women (& its development through the play)

HOWEVER... Women who were accused of witchcraft had absolutely no power and were stripped of their image of humanity

The penultimate peak of the role of women in the play was the fact that the mere acting of girls in court could determine whether a person lives or dies

Later on though, they gained power when they could freely accuse others of wtichcraft

Initially, women were subservient followers of their husbands

almost sort of control the trials (again, see Abigail)

be obedient for the men

Take on jobs that involve caretaking

To be accused of witchcraft

To accuse other people of withcraft (see Abigail)

Culture

Power hungry, people only seem to care about advancing themselves

Women were only considered valid when they were accusing someone of bing a witch

Women were not regarded as equals

definitly a patriarchical society

CONNECTIONS TO REAL LIFE:

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Elizabeth

Proctor to Elizabeth : "Woman. I‘ll not have your suspicion any more."

Expected to be inferior to her husband

Accused of witchcraft

Pregnant (extends her life term)

Hale

allowed girls like Abigail to have all of the power in the courtroom

supports the idea that witchcraft is running rampant

brought in as an "investigator"

Rebecca

She was convicted of witchcraft

Once she is accused of witchcraft, Hale pauses his though process on the witchhunt

In her 70s

devoutly religious

Betty

Her sickness spawned the idea of witchcraft in Salem

She faked being sick after she was caught dancing in the woods with the other girls

Abigail

Motivated by her drive for attention

"if Abigail scream and howl and fall to the floor—the person‘s clapped in the jail for bewitchin‘ her."

Feared by many in the town

Main accuser of witchcraft

17 year old niece of Paris

Motivations

Wanted to feel powerful like the men

Some wanted attention

Many of these girls felt bored becasue there was little stuff for them to do, so the acting was "fun"

Gossip

Led to the numerous accusations of witchcraft among the townsfolk

Behavioral Changes

Neighbors turn on each other in hopes of gaining land

The women are all afraid of abigail and the Putnam's... they don't want to be accused of witchcraft

When in court, the girls will act as if the accused witch is causing them pain or harm