Homework for Sept. 23

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set during a transitory period of time in colonial America, known as the Salem witch trials. The play starts when Abigail Williams emanates a serpentine plot that causes havoc in Salem. In the beginning she claims that on the day Tituba saw her in the forest they were only meandering and dancing in the forest. Then as she found out that the lie isn't going to hold, Tituba confesses to communing with the devil, so Abigail joins in confessing to having seen the devil consorting with other townspeople. This has an undulating effect because after this she started to name all the people she hated in town in order to use them to supersede her crime. Then really bring the town into chaos since suddenly half the town’s women are being accused of being witches. Then around the same time, Betty, the torpid girl that laid in bed during the first scene joins Abigail and starts naming people that “are” consorting with the devil. In the end the town retrogressed, became smaller, and Abigail ran away.