Plot for The Crucible

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Act 1: The plot

At first in the scene Parris is praying but we can not hear his words just mumbling as he is sitting beside her daughter who has not moved for days. He tries to wake her by talking to her but it does not work. Abigail the niece of Parris enters and tells him that Susanna has arrived. She than comes and delivers bad news in which Parris is not happy about, and then leaves. After Susanna leaves Parris approaches Abigail to find out what really happened the night they were caught dancing naked in the forest, and she tells him that it was not as it seemed but Parris finds it hard to believe that this is so. Whilst this conversation is happening Mrs Putnam enters to see what is happening who soon is accompanied by Thomas Putnam. Putnam's servant comes to the scene; a fat, sly, merciless girl aged 18 by the name of Mercy Lewis. Abigail tells her that they were seen and Mercy starts to get scared and at this moment enters Mary Warren who is 17 and is a sub-servant. Mary Warren tells the girls that what they did was wrong and that they will get punished for it whilst Abigail goes over to Betty and tries to wake her. Whilst this is happening betty, with a great fright, jumps out of bed and starts asking for her mother whom is dead and then reveilles that Abby had drunk blood to make a charm to kill John proctor's wife and Goody Proctor. As this is revelled she gets smashed on the face and Betty then with fright faints again and goes into a sleep as last time. John Proctor enters and as he does Mary Warren leaps in fright and tells him that she was on her way home. Both Mary Warren and Mercy leave as they are both frightened of Mr Proctor. When they leave Abigail and Mr Proctor start talking about their love affair in which proctor starts to denies everything and act like nothing is going on whilst Abigail starts to loose it as she feels mad that he does not want to love her anymore. Betty starts wailing and Abigail starts screaming for Parris. Parris enters and he calls for the nurse and Rebecca and Giles Corey enter. Rebecca tells them that Betty is fine and will wake in time and also tells Parris that when Revered Hale comes that he should send him home as he should not be looking for spirits as it's only going to course more problems. As Proctor and Giles start to leave Reverend John Hale, a man known to be an authority on the matter of witchcraft, arrives from Beverly, with half a dozen of books. As he talks about the good charity that Rebecca has done Mr Putnam and Mrs Putnam ask if he would also see to their daughter who is also in a bad state. Hale than starts to read his books and tries to find a way of curing her whilst everyone assumes that the devil has got her spirit and Rebecca leaves as she can not bear to watch. Then Giles asks Hales what it could mean about his wife reading strange books, he tells him that he could not pray whilst she was in the room reading the book and as soon as she left he could pray again. Hales tells him that he will see to him after this and says that he is determined to drive the evil spirits away from Salem. Reverend Hale tries to get Betty to talk, and when Tituba enters and Abby accuses her for everything Tituba confesses to witchcraft and as she does Abby starts doing it as well and feeling inspires Betty wakes from her sleep and finally starts talking. Betty, Tituba, and Abigail confess to having conjured spirits in the woods, and they give the names of all of the other people (supposedly witches) they saw. Whilst this is happening passis is shouting a prayer of thankgivening and hales stating that the speel is broken and thet they are free. The curtains fall and act 1 ends.
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Act 2: the plot

Eight days later the scene starts at john proctors house. At the right is a door where you can see the fields outside whilst on the left is the fireplace which behind it has a pair of stairways that lead to upstairs. The living room is rather long and is low and dark as it would be at the time. When the curtains go up the room is empty. John Proctor enters with a gun and goes over to the fireplace and leans the gun by the wall and then goes over to ...

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