The Crucible
             Act One
             This book starts of in the first act laying down the foundation on how Salem was based. The author starts by telling in which how Salem was during the trials. It was a hard working town that people had strict values on how they based their lives upon. Books were rarely read, and dancing in the forest was interpreted as witchcraft. These people never celebrated much, but when the roof of a barn was installed everyone sat around and drank cider.
             The play starts in the bedroom of Betty Parris, who after her father found her in the woods dancing naked, is now sick an unable to move. A slight argument is pursues with another woman, as Reverend Parris is pushing the doctor to find a medicine for Betty's sickness. With the prospect of witchcraft looming over his head, he is desperate. Hysteria is starting to set in and now a woman is crying that the devil caused the death of her seven children. A short while later they start to question the Abigail Williams in an interrogative way. That was when they shifted the interrogation towards Tituba, Reverend Parris' slave. Abby had made a comment that she was in the woods with them speaking in her native tongue. After speaking to Tituba is when he young girls start taking advantage of the mass hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail Williams starts chanting out names like wildfire. By the time she is done, six names have been mentioned. Then suddenly Betty wakes up, and she said that there were four more people are accused.
             Act Two
             Eight days later in the house of John and Elizabeth Proctor is where the next act takes place. John walks in and she serves them dinner while they have some small talk. Soon there after is when the friction begins, because the housekeeper went to the town of Salem for business of the court and John Proctor did not want her to go. When housekeeper returns she has brought bad news. Elizabeth name was brought up i...