In The Crucible, what are three adjectives that describe and contrast Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor?Please use specifics from the play.

You might find it useful to see how Miller introduces
these two characters to gain some sense of their characteristics and how they can be
compared and contrasted. For example, Miller introduces John Proctor in the following
way:

He need
not have been a partisan of any faction in the town, but there is evidence to suggest
that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites. He was the kind of man - powerful of
body, even-tempered, and not easily led - who cannot refuse support to partisans without
drawing their deepest resentment. In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolishness
instantly - and a Proctor is always marked for calumny
therefore.

... He is a sinner, a sinner not only against
the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct.... Proctor,
respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of
fraud.

This clearly paints a
very useful picture of John Proctor at the start of the play, and you might want to pick
the three following adjectives out to describe John Proctor: respected, feared, and
troubled.

Rebecca of course, although she ends up sharing
the same fate as John Proctor, is a very different character. Consider how Miller
presents her:

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As for Rebecca herself, the general opinion of
her character was so high that to explain how anyone dared cry her out for a witch - and
more, how adults could bring themselves to lay hands on her - we must look to the fields
and boundaries of that
time.

Note how this
emphasises her goodness and standing in the community by saying that it was only the
rapaciousness of the Putnams that ever allowed Rebecca to be arrested. You might also
want to look at how Rebecca Nurse calms Betty:

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Rebecca walks across the room to the
bed. Gentleness exudes from
her.

Thus we might
want to use the following adjectives to describe Rebecca: respected, gentle,
saintly.

It is interesting to note, lastly, that Rebecca
never tries to argue against or toys with the idea of going against being hung, unlike
John Proctor - she is set in her path and meets it with a God-given sense of peace and
calm, unlike John Proctor, who is able to meet his fate only after a time of doubting
and changing his mind.