The play starts in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose little girl, Betty, lays sick. Parris lives with his little girl and his seventeen-year old niece, Abigail Williams, a vagrant who saw her folks' homicide by the Indians. Parris has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, trusting his little girl's ailment originates from powerful clarifications. Betty turned out to be sick when her dad found her moving in the forested areas with Abigail, Tituba, which is Parris' slave from Barbados and a few other …show more content…
Ann Putnam concedes that she sent Ruth to Tituba, for Tituba knows how to address the dead and could discover who killed her seven youngsters, each of whom kicked the bucket amid early stages. At the point when the grown-ups leave, Abigail talks about Betty's sickness with Mercy Lewis and Mary Warren, the workers of the Putnams and the Proctors, separately. Abigail debilitates them, notice them not to say much else besides that they moved and Tituba summoned Ruth's sisters. John Proctor lands to discover Mary and send her home. He talks with Abigail alone, and she admits to him about the moving. Before, John and Abigail took part in an extramarital entanglements, which is the motivation behind why Elizabeth Proctor let go her. Abigail suggestions John, yet he sternly declines her. At the point when Betty hears individuals singing hymns from outside, she starts to scream. Reverend Parris returns, and understands that Betty can't stand to hear the Lord's