Summaries
Act
One:
1. Takes place in Parris home/1692 Spring/Salem
2.
Affair happens before play begins – 7 months
ago – Abigail fired
3.
Girls caught by Parris Dancing/conjuring
in the woods with Tituba
4.
Ruth/Betty cannot wake – send for DR—witchcraft
suspected
5.
We find out that Mrs. Putnam who lost 7
babies in child birth has sent Ruth to Tituba to conjure the dead babies to see
who killed them
6.
Parris sends for Mr. Hale – expert in Dark
Arts
7.
Parris – not liked by congregation – fears
losing his job because of this controversy
8.
Abigail –orphan – saw her parents killed
by Indians- threatens the girls if they tell—drank a charm to kill Goody
Proctor
9.
Tituba – they threaten to kill her unless
she confesses – so she confesses and goes back to God. Hale says that she has been sent by God to
help “cleanse the village”
10.
Abigail “goes back to God” and starts crying
out.
11.
Girls start crying out on people in the
town
Act Two:
1. Takes place in John and Elizabeth
Proctors home -8 days later
2.
John and Elizabeth’s relationship is very
strained – Elizabeth has not forgiven John for the affair and suspects that he
still has feelings for Abigail
3.
Elizabeth tries to convince John to go to
court and tell that Abigail said it was just for sport
4.
Hale comes to check the Christian Status
of the Proctors – 10 Commandments – forgets Adultery
5.
Mary Warren has been in Salem as an official
of the court – we find out that several have been accused/sentenced to
hang/jailed
6.
Mary Warren says that Rebecca Nurse and
Elizabeth Proctor have been “somewhat mentioned”
7.
The accused must confess and live or deny
and die
8.
Mary Warren gives Elizabeth a poppet that
she made/needle in the tummy
9.
Abigail accused Elizabeth of sending her
supernatural spirit out to attack her by pushing a needle in her stomach
10.
A warrant
is issued and the poppet is used as evidence against Elizabeth
11.
Martha
Corey, Rebecca Nurse, and Elizabeth are all accused of witchcraft and taken to
jail—Proctor rips the warrant
12.
John
Proctor tries to convince Mary Warren to go to court and tell the truth about
the girls.
Act
Three:
1. Takes place in the church that is now
acting as the court building/72 condemned to hang
2.
Giles Corey brings in a sworn statement
that says Mr. Putnam made Ruth cry out on people to get their land (Jacobs)
3.
Mary Warren testifies that the girls are
lying and that she lied.
4.
Francis Nurse comes with a petition signed
by 91 people who testify to the character of Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, and
Elizabeth Proctor – the court orders all the people that signed the petition to
be arrested
5.
Elizabeth Proctor is pregnant
6.
The girls turn on Mary/mimic/yellowbird/say
she is sending her spirit out on them
7.
Proctor confessed to the affair and says
his wife will not lie
8.
They bring in Elizabeth and she LIES about
the affair to protect John’s name
9.
Mary then turns back to the girls and
accuses John Proctor of Witchcraft and he is arrested.
10.
Proctor says “God is Dead!”
11.
Hale quits the court
IV
1. Jail cell in the Fall
with Tituba and Sarah Good – Herrick Drunk – people set to hang in the AM
2. Parris praying with prisoners to save them –
Abigail runs off with Mercy Lewis and steals his strong box money 31 pounds
3. Hale arrives to try and get Rebecca Nurse and John
Proctor to confess so they will live
4. Get Elizabeth who is pregnant to convince John to
confess
5. Proctor and Elizabeth clear the air and forgive
each other – each confesses to faults
Finds out that Giles is pressed to death by rocks –
more weight
6. Proctor signs confession but will not testify
against anyone else
7. Danforth wants to post his confession on the church
door
8. Proctor wants to save his good name for his boys so
he tears up the confession
9. Elizabeth says He has his good name now I will not take
it from him
10 Proctor, Rebecca, and Martha Corey Hang
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