There are rumors that Elizabeth does not want to sit so close to a soiled woman. Abigail denies any wrongdoing and asserts that Elizabeth hates her because she would not work like a slave.
Parris asks why no other family has hired Abigail if Elizabeth is a liar. Abigail insinuates that Parris is only worried about her employment status because he begrudges her upkeep. Thomas Putnam and his wife enter the room. Putnam had seven babies that each died within a day of its birth.
Convinced that someone used witchcraft to murder them, she sent Ruth to Tituba to contact the spirits of her dead children in order to discover the identity of the murderer. Parris berates Abigail anew and asserts that she and the girls were indeed practicing witchcraft. Putnam urges Parris to head off his enemies and promptly announce that he has discovered witchcraft.
Once they are alone, Abigail updates Mercy on the current situation. Mary Warren , the servant for the Proctor household, enters the room in a breathless, nervous state. She frets that they will all be labeled witches before long. Betty sits up suddenly and cries for her mother, but her mother is dead and buried. She threatens to kill them if they breathe a word about the other things that they did.
She shakes Betty, but Betty has returned to her unmoving, unresponsive state. The Crucible is a play about the intersection of private sins with paranoia, hysteria, and religious intolerance. The government of Salem, and of Massachusetts as a whole, is a theocracy, with the legal system based on the Christian Bible. Regulating the morality of citizens requires surveillance. State officials patrol the township, requiring citizens to give an account of their activities.
Free speech is not a protected right, and saying the wrong thing can easily land a citizen in jail. The Crucible introduces a community full of underlying personal grudges. Religion pervades every aspect of life, but it is a religion that lacks a ritual outlet to manage emotions such as anger, jealousy, or resentment.
Abigail claims Betty collapsed from:. Tituba cast a spell. Voldemort appeared in the cauldron. The boy she liked appeared. Who said this: "Now look, you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this--let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.
Abigail Williams. Mercy Lewis. Betty Parris. Why did Goody Nurse say, "Th is will set us all to arguin' again in the society, and we thought to have peace this year"? Reverend Parris sent for Reverend Hale. They found Mr. Putnam stealing money from the church. The gils were found dancing in the woods at night. Voldemort is after Harry Potter. Parris is reluctant to tell anyone that Betty may be bewitched because he…. Is jealous of John Hale.
What family suffered 7 of their babies passing away near or shortly after birth? When did Goody Proctor fire Abigail Williams?
This scene is what starts the future conflicts. I view this particularconflict as the beginning domino of a domino effect. Putnam is ecstatic that Tituba has accused the homeless women because she can now blame the women for the death of her babies.
Who does Abigail accuse of conjuring spirits at this point? What does Betty Parris reveal about what happened in the woods? Betty reveals that Abigail drank blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth. Does Rebecca think that Betty is touched by the devil? Rebecca thinks Betty will wake up in time. Putnam believe Tituba knows how to do? Putnam believe happened to her babies? How does Mercy wake Ruth?
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