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