the crucible: context

• Women are subservient
• How are women made a product of Puritan society

  • never making eye contact with the men
  • so they are always looking down at the floor
  • they sit with their back straight on chairs to show that they are subservient, powerless creatures
• How did the witch trials help the Putnam's?


  The trials gave people, like the Putnam's, the chance to voice their festering bitterness by accusing those whom they had quietly resented for years.