The Crucible- Act Three

Giles enters the court and interrupts it by saying he has evidence that that the girls have been lying. he is immediately taken out of the court then Mr. Proctor arrives with Mary Warren in attempt to make the judge hear his "evidence" against the girls. He makes Mary tell the judge how they never saw spirits and that they were just pretending. The judge seems surprised but he begins to question Mr. Proctor as Parris begins to say things that go against Proctor.

Danforth: "You are in all respect a Gospel Christian?"
Proctor: "I am, sir."
Parris: "Such a Christian that will not come to church but once in a month!" (pg84)

Proctor has "no love for Mr. Parris" and through this it is evident that Reverend Parris has no love for Proctor. While the judge is attempting to get to the conclusion of whether or not he will listen to the evidence Proctor says he has, Parris continues to interrupt. He makes the judge not really want to listen to Proctor nor believe him.

Level Questions: 
How do you think Proctor finally made Mary go with him to the court to declare that the entire time they were just pretending?


Is Mr. Proctors "evidence" enough to free his wife and the rest of the accused? 

The Crucible- Act Two

After the accusations that the girls made, they started up the court in which the people would be asked to confess that they participated in witchcraft or they would be hung. The girls continued to accuse many others among the people accused was Elizabeth Proctor, who was accused of trying to kill Abigail by using a doll and stabbing it with a needle.

Mary Warren: "She'll kill me for sayin' that! Abby'll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!"
Proctor: "She told you!"
Mary Warren: "I have known it, sir. She'll ruin you with it, I know she will."

Cheever and others have warrants of arresting accused people and taking them back to Salem. He arrives to Proctor's house and take Elizabeth. he tells them what she has been accused of and takes the doll Mary made as "evidence" of her witchcraft against Abby.
John Proctor tries to stop them from taking his wife but is unsuccessful at it. He tells her he will go to Salem to bring her back home. After they leave with Elizabeth Proctor demands Marry to go with him to the court and prove Elizabeth innocent by accusing Abigail of all her lies. Mary refuses which shows how much power Abigail really has over her and how she's scared.

Level Question:
What do you think Proctor will do to prove that Abigail is lying? Is there really any evidence that can be used against Abigail other than the other girls, since they seem to be scared to ever go against her.

The Crucible - end of act one

My 1st blog pot was intended for all  of act one................

The girls still continue to hide their secret and for their own sake and for the sake of Reverend Parris. They decide to blame other people in the town of being "witches".

Abigail: "I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!"
Betty: "I saw Goody Bibber with the Devil!"
Abigail: "I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!"

The girls begin to act weird and scared and begin to yell out that they saw certain people with the devil. They accuse others of being witches so that the attention will go towards those people instead of them. In a way it shows how much control Abigail has over the other girls and how she would put others in danger just to make sure she is protected and found completely incapable of doing witchcraft.

Level Question: What might the girls have against those specific people that they accused of being with the Devil?

The Crucible Act One

      In Act One of the Crucible we are introduced to many character with conflicts. The focus goes towards Betty Parris, Reverend Parris’ daughter, who “is lying on the bed, inert.” The doctor can’t seem to find whats wrong with Betty, therefore people begin to say whatever is wrong with her must have something to do with witchcraft. The Reverend refuses to have that said since he has plenty of “enemies” and it would not be good for there to be such corruptness in his home. He questions his niece, Abigail about what it is that Betty and her were doing in the Forest. She claims that they only danced but there is more to what really happened in the forest and Abigail insists for it to remain a secret.

Abigail: “Listen, now; if they be questioning us, tell them we danced--- I told him as much already.” (Pg17)

Abigail tells Mercy that her uncle knows that she danced in the forest with Betty and warns her to not tell about anything else that happens. She doesn’t want it to be known that they did in fact do “witchcraft.”

Abigail had drank blood in hopes of killing John Proctor’s wife.

Question:  Why would Mercy, Ruth, Mary, Tituba, and Betty help Abigail with the “witchcraft” to try to kill Goody Proctor?