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Minor characters, town elders, confess rather than hang, dies for his…
Minor characters
Giles Corey
83 years old
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knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, and still powerful
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fights with neighbours
firends with Proctor - help each other
comic character
independant spirit
courage + strength
heart - good man
Rebecca Nurse = ideal puritan
lives her faith
shows kindess + compassion
gentleness
soothes Betty
brave - refuses to confess =
dignity
72, "
white-haired, leaning upon her walking-stick
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Gentleness exudes from her
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11 children
Tituba
foreigner - Barbados
personal concern for Betty
decent woman
colour of skin - low standing
less of a threat
shares her cultural knowledge
girls more open
no allegiance to the Devil
shows true nature of trials
began asserting Christianity
ends calling to the Devil
"Take me home, Devil! Take me home!"
Martha Corey
decent women
charged with witchcraft
reads - lively mind
brave - refuses to confess
Francis Nurse
puts others in front of him
moral life
towns unofficial judge - probity (honesty)
Sarah Good
drunkard + vagrant
town elders
kinder picture of puritanism
confess rather than hang
neither have good reputation + different
dies for his beliefs
not afraid to speak his mind