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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

  • Act 1

    Reverend Parris finds the girls in the woods dancing, and one of them is naked, and he hears them speaking gibberish.
  • Act 1

    One of the girls, Betty is found unconcious and Reverend Parris is praying for her.
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    The Crucible

  • Act 1

    Parris demands the truth because he is more concerned about his job than his daughter.
  • Act 1

    Reverend Hale enters the room with several books about the devil and witchery, he is a person who finds witches and sends them out.
  • Act 1

    Abigail tells them all a lie and accuses Tituba, telling them that she made her drink blood, dance, laugh in church, and makes her dream corruptions.
  • Act 1

    They find Tituba and Tituba lies to them to save herself saying that the devil told her to kill Reverend Parris but Tituba refuses.
  • Act 1

    Tituba than starts to accuse other people from Salem like Goody Good and Goody Osburn.
  • Act 1

    Right after Tituba accuses those people, Abigail confesses being with the devil and Abigail and Betty start to accuse multiple suspects of being witches
  • Act 2

    Elizabeth knows about his affair with Abigail, and John confesses that it is true.
  • Act 2

    John and Elizabeth Proctor are at home converstating with eachother, but Elizabeth is mad at him.
  • Act 2

    Marry Warren comes to the Proctor house and informs them that she was at the trials and that about 39 people have been accused.
  • Act 2

    Marry gives Elizabeth a ragdoll.
  • Act 2

    Elizabeth is accused of being a witch, Reverend Hale questions them to see if they know the 10 commandments and John forgets "Adultery".
  • Act 2

    Rebecca and Martha Nurse are arrested as witches. Abigail had plotted against Elizabeth, pretending that Elizabeth's spirit attacked her with a needle, They arrest Elizabeth once they find the doll with a needle in it.
  • Act 3

    John, Giles, Hale, Francis, and Marry Warren go to the court to defend Rebecca, Martha Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor.
  • Act 3

    John gets 91 people's testimony's who defend Elizabeth, Martha, and Rebecca. Judge Dansforth calls for the witnesses to be arrested for questioning.
  • Act 3

    Giles brought evidence against Putnam. Marry Warren testify's and confesses that the girls are pretending and that they never saw any spirits. Judge Hathorn asks Marry to pretend to faint but she cant do it.
  • Act 3

    John Proctor admits that he had an affair with Abigail, Elizabeth is called for to testify about the affair.
  • Act 3

    Elizabeth ends up lying to protect her husbands name and she is sent back to jail.
  • Act 3

    Abigail and the other girls begin to mimic Marry and say that Marry is attacking them with her spirits.
  • Act 3

    Marry turns her back on John and accuses him of making her write her name in back book, that he is with the devil.
  • Act 4

    Abigail has ran away with Mercy Lewis and she had stole all of Reverend Parris's money.
  • Act 4

    3 months have passed and Tituba, Sarah Good, John, Elizabeth, and many others are in jail.
  • Act 4

    Reverend Hale returns to Salem to help the people who are inbut in jail to confess to save their life, but in order to save their life they have to lie.
  • Act 4

    Elizabeth is asked to speak to John about confessing so that he may live. John decided to confess.
  • Act 4

    John rips up the confession because he wants to keep his name. Because of this John is then executed!!!!