The Crucible Summary _________________________________________________ Act 1 Portrayed in Massachusetts - 1962‚ the play begins with the prayers of Reverend Samuel Parris in his house‚ next to his daughter’s bed. His ten-year old daughter - Betty‚ who became ill and unconscious ever since Parris found her dancing in the woods with Abigail – his seventeen-year old niece – and Tituba – his slave from Barbados – with some of other girls in the village. Worried about Betty and her
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does not believe in witches‚ but Proctor says he did not speak one way or another. Hale says that they cannot look to superstition in issues of witchcraft‚ because the Devil is precise. Parris admits to the dancing and the conjuring‚ while Goody Ann Putnam claims that witchcraft must be the cause of death for her seven children. Giles Corey asks Hale what the meaning of reading strange books is. He says that he often wakes in the middle of the night to find Martha reading in a corner. He also says that
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The Facts and Fictions of The Salem Witch Trials The idea of witchcraft has been a controversial topic since the begging of time however‚ witchcraft became better known in 1692‚ with the begging of the Salem witch trials. Many stories have been written about the Salem witch trials. Some are found in journals‚ other stories are exaggerated from those journals. The comparison of historical facts and the play the Crucible are the perfect example of an exaggerated actual event. During the Salem
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The Crucible The playwright‚ Arthur Miller‚ uses the character construction in the play to position the audience to accept the dominant reading of the play‚ which is the concern and dangers of religious fanaticism. The play‚ The Crucible‚ is set in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. It is based upon the actual events which led to the ‘Salem witch trials’‚ a series of hearings to determine which individuals were in fact practicing witchcraft. The play also conveys parallels to the McCarthyist era‚ during
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Act I 1. What does the “spareness” of the Puritan setting reveal about the lives of the townspeople of Salem? The setting mirrors the Puritans’ beliefs. The lack of ornamentation demonstrates the Puritan aversion to vanity and frivolous pursuits. 2. Explain the significance of the forest to the Puritans. It was the epitome of evil. As far as the Puritans were concerned‚ the Native Americans were murderous heathens. The animals periodically attacked. There was no wilderness in England‚ so the
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revenge in The Crucible is Thomas Putnam. From the beginning of the play‚ Thomas Putnam had grudges against Francis Nurse for preventing his brother-in-law from being elected to run for office as minister. "Thomas Putnam’s man for the Salem ministry was Bayley. The Nurse clan had been in the faction that prevented Bayley’s taking office" (Act 1). He also dislikes George Jacobs because they have had land disputes in the past. Thomas Putnam decides to have his daughter Ruth charge witchcraft against the
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forest‚ including Parris’s daughter‚ Betty‚ and his slave‚ Tituba. Coincidental to her practices‚ Thomas and Ann Putnam‚ one of the more hidden families in Salem‚ come to Parris and say that multiple of the witchcraft events are occurring in Salem. These events include Betty’s illness‚ their daughter‚ Ruth‚ plummeting into a coma‚ and the deaths of their seven infant children. Mrs. Putnam says to Parris in relevance to her daughter’s illness‚ “She ails as she must—She never walked this morning‚ but
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lies an unwelcomed truth; the unwelcomed truth in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller (1692) is what the girls were doing in the woods‚ committing a sin. (Miller) Paranoia can be caused by a traumatic incident or physical injury.(Manfredi) Betty and Ruth were two of several girls that were dancing in the woods. In the Puritan culture‚ dancing is considered a sin. The minister of Salem Massachusetts‚ Reverend Samuel Parris‚ caught the girls in the woods committing a sin‚ which was dancing. Some people
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very best and worst in Miller’s characters. The message of the play is that communities contain both good and bad elements. This is most clearly manifested in the symbolism of the crucible itself‚ and the characterisations of John Proctor‚ and Thomas Putnam. The presence of good and bad in the community is represented through the symbol of the crucible. The play’s title refers to a vessel in which metals are heated to separate the pure metal from the impurities. Each individual subjected to the ordeal
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office because of the situations going on. Mr. Putnam and his wife come along and explain how they have had a similar situation with their daughter. Goody Putnam also states that someone saw Betty flying around a barn. Mrs. Putnam is evidently convinced that witchcraft has taken place in the death of her seven babies at birth. Parris claims that Abigail and his daughter were engaging in witchcraft when he caught them dancing in the woods. Putnam wants Reverend Parris to confess and inform everyone
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