Salem is a backstabbing, greedy, and two faced community. Salem is in chaos because of all the talk about witchcraft. I chose to represent Giles Corey, Samuel Parris, and Thomas Putnam from the play The Crucible. The first character I chose was Giles corey. Giles Corey An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem. Giles is married to Martha Corey. I represented Giles Corey on my character art poster as dark red stones. The second character I chose was Reverend Samuel Parris. Samuel Parris is the minister of Salem’s church. Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry type of character in this play. I represented Reverend Samuel Parris on my character art poster as orange coins. Also not many of the townsfolk like him. The last character I chose was Thomas Putnam. Putnam is a wealthy, and influential citizen in Salem. I represented Thomas Putnam as dark green trees. I put all my symbols on a black background because Salem is a very dark place. I made the black sheet of paper have jagged sides because …show more content…
Putnam is a very wealthy man in Salem. I represented Thomas Putnam on my poster as dark green trees. I chose the color dark green because it can mean a person is greedy. Thomas Putnam is greedy because he is trying to get all the land he possibly can. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land. Dark green can also represent ambition. Putnam is very ambitious person which makes him very influential in Salem. I chose to represent Putnam as trees because he is try really hard to get land from Giles Corey. I put this representation at the bottom of the poster because he is the super ambitious so he wants to make his way from the bottom to the top. A quote from Thomas Putnam is “He had no right to sell it. It stands clear in my grandfather's will that the land between the river and-”(Miller 32). This quote shows that Putnam does not give up the land very