John Proctor Reaction To The Crucible

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This is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts where a lot of people got executed for being considered a witch by a group of lying girls. It all started when a group of girls were dancing in the woods with their serevent named Tituba and they ate or drank something that made them faint and pass out for the whole night. While they were doing that a guy named Reverend Parris seen them dancing around a girl and screaming random words. The day after that, the little girl wasn’t waking up so they started to question Abigail if they were doing witchcraft but then Abigail blamed Tituba. After that they started to blame many innocent people and all those people got hung for witchcraft they didn’t do. The author Arthur Miller’s purpose for …show more content…
Tituba, Tituba….”. The second most important part of the play was when John Proctor went into court to tell the judges about the affair he had with abigail, how abigail is a liar and not to believe anything she says, but judge Danforth calls in Elizabeth Proctor and asked if she knows about the affair John Proctor had with abigail but Elizabeth lies and says that her husband would never do that. When she said that John said “Elizabeth, i have confessed it!” and Elizabeth says “Oh, God!” because she knew that she messed up and didn’t know that he confessed it. The third important part of this play was when a guy named Reverend Hale a witch hunter spoke up and said “I believe him! This girl has always struck me false!” about Abigail but no one believed him because as soon as he said that Abigail started to cause a scene screaming “You will not! be gone be gone, i say!”. She claimed that she seen a yellow bird and that it was the devil trying to take her …show more content…
They were going to whip Tituba until she started to say that she was a witch and that she talks to the devil and everyone started to feel bad for her. They started to believe that all the girls that were in the woods made contact with the devil and that's when Abigail put on a acting show blamed a lot of people for supposedly being witches. John proctor a man that had an affair with abigail, knows that she is lying to the judges. He goes to the court to go tell the judges about the affair Abigail and him had but abigail claims that they didn’t have an affair. John Proctor is trying to prove to the judges that she’s a liar so he tells them to ask his wife if its true. So they brought his wife into the court and asked her about the affair and if it’s true but unfortunately, she lied to make her husband seem like a good man and they took her

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