Reverend Parris is weeping and praying over his daughter Betty’s bed.
And all while sounding righteous and religious! The Salem Witch Trials were an opportunity for neighbors to vent against neighbors, to publicly air long-standing jealousy, to accuse those they disliked. But by 1692 much that was good about the Puritans, the narrator suggests, has been lost to history.
Because the Puritans sought a community, they managed to survive. The town saw itself as persecuted, a legacy of the persecution Puritans faced in the Old World (Europe).
The narrator describes Salem as a new town with a strict Puritan way of life, its outlook on the rest of the world one of “parochial snobbery”-in other words, small-town small-mindedness.The narrator describes Reverend Parris as a suspicious man in his mid-forties, one who often imagines that the world is against him. The scene opens in Reverend Parris’s house, in a small upstairs bedroom, in the year 1692.You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Type of Resource Still image Languages English Identifiers NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21948893 MSS Unit ID: 24515 Archives EAD ID: 3180002 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cd1e0ab0-43c8-0139-2131-0242ac110003 Rights Statement The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. Crucible Genres Costume design drawings Design drawings Notes Funding: Support for digitization has been provided by the Estate of Willa Kim. The Crucible Dates / Origin Date Created: 1968 - 1971 (Approximate) Library locations Billy Rose Theatre Division Shelf locator: *T-Vim 2017-044 Topics Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Names Kim, Willa (Creator) Kim, Willa (Costume designer) Collection TitleThe Crucible: Francis Nurse (Bill Cwikowski), 12
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