Real Life VS The Crucible
In The Crucible Rebecca Nurse was the wife of Francis Nurse. She was a well respected lady in the village. Ann Putnam was very jealous of her because she had eleven children and twenty-six grandchildren. Ann Putnam saw it to be unfair that Rebecca had not lost any of her children and she had lost all but one an now that one was ill. Rebecca was arrested under the accusation that she had killed Ann Putnam's children.
In real life Rebecca Nurse was found not guilty by the jury.This caused the people to be stricken with fury and demand that the jury come together again and re-try the case. The jury then asked the magistrate that the verdict be reconsidered. The jury changed the verdict to guilty, so she was sentenced to be hung and was executed on July 19th 1692. |