Baker, Emerson W. Oxford University Press, Fowler, Samuel P. Roach, Marilynne K. Taylor Trade Publishing, Boyer, Paul S. Wadsworth Publishing Co, Elliot Woodward, Kimball, Henrietta D. Witchcraft Illustrated. Geo A. Kimball, Mays, Dorothy A. Goss, K. Greenwood Press , My great grandma was Edith May Russell. Doing our family tree I found out Rebecca was my 8th great grandmother.
How very terrified she and her sisters must of been. Shes my 10 great grandmother too! She knows its just for laughs. I am also a descendant. I have a book written in by Charles Sutherland Tapley all about the family and the trial.
And also it gives a list of the descendants from each child. Rebecca Preston then had Charles A Towns of Park Ridge , IL, who is collecting records of the descendants of William and Joanna Blessing Towne, parents of Rebecca Nurse, now has a record of 15, descendants of Rebecca Nurse and believes that these are at least 30, descendants of this worthy woman.
This was taken from the book. This was very helpful, thank you! I once lived in Danvers Mass and of all places on Putnam Street. Two years ago I took my family to see the Nurse home on Pine street. This place has a very earthy smell too it and seemed to always have a hazy cloud hovering above it.
The trees are majestic and you could almost go back in time just stand under one. Miller explicitly mentions this squabble in one of his character essays interspersed in the printed play p.
There might also be some resentment from Ann Putnam due to her high infant mortality rate vs. What is clear, though, is that the only person Rebecca is sarcastic to in The Crucible is Ann Putnam:. My Ruth is bewildered, Rebecca; she cannot eat.
With the exception of her attitude towards Goody Ann, though, Rebecca seems to think and hope for the best of people and they strive to show it to her…until the witch business starts.
The most noticeable quality about Rebecca is her saintly demeanor and her moral superiority to the other characters in the play. When Rebecca is accused of witchcraft a decidedly ungodly crime , the only justification Hale can come up with is that God has been fooled by seeming purity before:. Rebecca also displays high moral character through her interactions with other characters over the course of the play. Answer : Rebecca serves as the moral high point of the play.
She is the yardstick against which Miller measures all other characters. Rebecca is one of the few women to have authority pre-witchcraft trials.
She is also able to get John to not completely lose it at least temporarily :. Rebecca's arrest causes people to feel doubt because of her power and authority in the town. As Parris worriedly tells Judges Hathorne and Danforth,. Parris is concerned that if it turns out Rebecca was somehow! As Reverend Hale says in Act 2,.
Goody Nurse is the most straightforward and honest character in the play Two specific instances of this are when she's fine with telling Parris that, actually, he has been driving parishioners away Act 1, p. Rebecca only appears in Acts 1 and 4 of The Crucible although she is mentioned in the other two acts by other characters. Rebecca's first action upon entering the stage in Act 1 is to soothe Betty Parris with her very presence Act 1, p.
Rebecca does not appear onstage in Acts 2 and 3, but we do learn important information about her from other characters. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. By Wade Bradford Wade Bradford.
Wade Bradford, M. Putman accuses Rebecca of the death of her babies. In order to prevent themselves from being accused of witchcraft, the girls accused others in the village of doing the same thing. Many people that weird being accused of witchcraft were innocent but confessed because they were living in fear.
Those who confessed to witchcraft served a short sentence in jail. Those who denied witchcraft were put to death by hanging. She claims she is just an innocent teenager. However, as the story unfolds, Abigail is truly a despicable character and is ultimately responsible for a number of murders, trials against the innocent and eventually crosses the boundary of outright evil.
In the beginning, Abigail Williams, a former house servant to the Proctor household, begins her villainous behavior after being kicked out of the Proctor home as she was accused of having an affair with John Proctor. She takes refuge with the Reverend Parris, Betty and Tituba. Family accused family and friends accused friends. These accusations lasted from February to May , and more than people were accused for witchcraft. Many people accused others for being witches because of fear, popularity, and revenge.
Fear was one of the main reasons for the witch accusations. Each conflict has built upon each other, Ann Putnam vs. Death begins the trials with the first mention of witchcraft. John Proctor vs. Mary Warren vs. John Proctor causes Mary to accuse him of witchcraft, leading to the final scene where Proctor is taken to be hung. Each conflict is necessary to cause the next and the next, without which there would be no play.
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