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The Crucible
(Arthur Miller)

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Written and performed during the McCarthy era, The Crucible
is a play about the struggle against mass hysteria and fear
that one man takes to achieve nobility of spirit.

Set in Salem, Massachusetts during the Witch Trials of the
17th Century, the play focuses around the character of John
Proctor, who though flawed, finds his own way to goodness
through extraordinary times.

The play opens at the house of the Rev. Samuel Parris while
he prays for the health of his daughter, Betty. Betty and
other girls of Salem were caught out in the forest dancing
at night. Parris is afraid of witchcraft and the scandal
that might occur for his own daughter?s part in the crime.
When Betty is left alone with Abigail, Parris? beautiful
teenage niece, and the other girls involved, they try all
they can to make Betty wake up. Also it comes out that
Abigail drank blood and put a curse on John Proctor?s wife,
Elizabeth, so that she could have John Proctor to herself.
The girls, knowing they are in deep trouble, find a
stranger from Boston among them, the Rev. Nathan Hale, who
has come to find out if there is witchcraft or not. The
girls first deny that there is any witchcraft and blames
Tituba, Parrish?s slave, for anything that has happened.
When Tituba is called in, after being attacked and
threatened with hanging, she confesses to outlandish
displays of witchcraft and communicating with Satan. The
girls all join in and the act ends with hysterical
accusations by both Betty and Abigail of who in the town
has been seen with the devil.

The next act begins in the Proctor household, with the
return of their servant girl, Mary Warren, who tells them
that the trials have made her presence at court imperative
to bring down the other witches and she cannot help them.
The trials at this point have gotten out of hand and many
people are being accused including Rebecca Nurse, a pious
elderly woman, and other powerful members of the town.
Elizabeth Proctor tries to get her husband to go and
confess about his affair with Abigail, the ring leader of
the girls, and show the court that she is not the noble
little girl they think her to be and also that he knows she
originally denied there being any witchcraft to blame for
Betty?s illness. Proctor refuses, saying that he would not
be believed. However, Elizabeth eventually is arrested
herself, and Proctor sees that he must stop Abigail.
Proctor convinces Mary Warren to admit to the fact that it
was all a lie and that the girls are faking. She is afraid
of Abigail, but agrees to try and save Elizabeth.

In the courtroom, Mary Warren goes to admit that the girls
accusations were false. However, Abigail soon makes it seem
as if Mary Warren is possessing them and creates such panic
in the courtroom that Mary soon goes back to the side of
the girls and denies John Proctor. During these events,
after Proctor is convicted for Witchcraft, he tries to
admit that Abigail had an affair with him. However, when
Elizabeth is brought into the courtroom to tell them
whether Proctor?s accusations are true or false, she lies
out of shame for her husband and says that he never had any
affair with Abigail. The Rev. Hale finds these events
bogus, and denounces the witch trials as a farce, but
Proctor is taken off to prison.

Proctor refuses to admit to anyone else?s being a witch or
wizard and he is eventually executed. Elizabeth finds his
new actions evidence of his new nobility of spirit and his
making peace with God. After he is executed they find that
Abigail and another girl have fled the village, drawing a
close to the witch trials.



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