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= THE CRUCIBLE. =  By Arthur Miller

Summary: In the crucible, the story is about betrayal and witchcraft. The play starts when Mercy Lewis is sick in bed, and Parris comes in and confronts Abigail. He said he saw Abby, Mercy, and Mary Warren dancing with Tituba. He suspects they were conjuring spirits. The people in the town all want to know whats going on so Mr. Putnam tells Reverend Parris to tell the people whats going on. Parris tells the people nothing of witchcraft yet because he doesn't want people to look at him as where the epicdempic of witchcraft started. So he leads them in a prayer of Psalms. He wanted to wait for Mr. Hale to come and give his opinon on whats going on. When Parris leaves Mercy Lewis's room, Abigail threatens Marry Warren and the girls not to tell. Then John Proctor goes in the room and you find out that Abigail and John had a affair. Then Hale says that Tituba is a witch and then she confesses in court. Abigail says that Tituba made her drink blood and conjure spirits. Tituba said she saw the devil and the devil told her to kill Parris. She says Sarah Good and goody Osburn was there with the devil. Betty then cries out that she saw George Jacobs with the devil and Goody Howe. Hale then says that these girls are free of evil spirits. But Tituba must stay in the jail.

Proctor goes home and his wife Elizabeth asked what took him so long. He tells her he planted seed and then he tells her later that he went to Salem, and tells her what going on with the witch trail. By this scene you find out that Abigail got kicked out of the Proctor Household because she had an affair with John. So Elizabeth gets angry when she finds out that John went to Salem.

The Witch trails start and Mary Warren must go to court she tells the Proctors, John and Elizabeth think the charges are pretense, and tell Mary not to go.But she says that the court summoned her so she must go. Elizabeth tells John he has to go tell Abigail he doen't like her and she is a whore. Meanwhile the court had appointed Judge Hathorone, Deputy Govener Danford, and Marshall Herrick. Mary brought home Elizabeth a poppet with a needle in the stomach. Soon after Marshall Herrick comes and says he has to take Elizabeth for witchcraft. John says he can not take her she has done no withcraft. So Marshall says you haven't gone to church this month accept one time, your one child isn't baptized, and you have a poppet in your kitchen. They tell them that the poppet was one Mary made for her, they lift up the dress on the poppet and find a needle in the poppet's stomach. They say Abigail has a needle in her belly, and Abigail had a needle in her stomach bleeding. So they take Elizabeth in, and John and Giles Corey ( his wife has been put in jail) go to the court the next morning. Judge Hathorne says that his wife won't been hung because she is pregnant. But John still doesn't stop fighting for the moral right thing to do.While all this is going on people are getting hanged. John has Mary say that this is all pretense and she never say spectrums or seen the devill and Abigail watched her put the needle in the poppet. She said everyone is faking it. John says Abigail is leading the girls, so the judge has the girls come in. When Mary started to describe what was going on, Abigail and the other girls where screaming and saying that Mary Warren was hurting them. So the Judge says they will have to send her to jail for hurting the girls so she says John made her. So they all start screaming that john is hurting them. John has to admitt to the affair he had, and that he is a letcher. Abigail acts like it never happened, but the judges know that this is true. The officials don't want to be proven wrong because it would ruin there reputation. John said three times my wife wouldn't lie. So they bring in Elizabeth and ask her if her husband had commited letchery. She tries to look at him but the judge tells her not to, so she lies and says no. So the judges take Giles and John in to jail. Giles is stubborn so they put rocks on him untill he dies, the day John is about to be hung, Parris says that something isn't right. So far only peasents have been hung, and john is a somewhat high soicety person. Parris is only thinking of himself because some one stabbed his door with a knife, and Abigail and Mary took his money and ran away. So they have Elizabeth talk to john and try to have him confess so he doesn't have to die. Elizabeth gets john to say he will confess and they get on the right terms again. He confesses and then they ask him to sign it and he says no and tears the contract. Parris pleads that he can't hang John but the judge says it wouldn't be fair to everyone else. So John Proctor gets hung. This is why many people consider John the tra gic Hero.