Marriage

Context

Purpose

Love Triangle

Miller had an affair with Marilyn Monroe

what a marriage requires to make it work ?

Two children + wife

divorced Mary Slattery

married Monroe

echoes Miller's love triangle

Elizabeth - Proctor - Abigail

Issues of trust and what a partner owes the other

Giles Corey

Francis Nurse

idle tongue

distrust of his wife

contributes to wife getting hanged

defends his wife at his own risk

wife : Rebecca Nurse

wife : Martha Corey

Proctor + Elizabeth

love each other

affair with Abigail

trust shattered

Proctor

apologies

anger

suffer at the hands of the court

understanding of each other

mutual love

sacrifice everything for each other

Proctor ruins his name + accepts wife's vision of him

Elizabeth lies + accepts his martyrdom