The Crucible Act I Part I

The Crucible Act I Part I

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The play opens in a small bedroom of Reverend Parris’s house, in the year ___________, in _____________, Massachusetts.

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Rev. Parris’s slave, ___________________, enters the bedroom. Parris is crying and praying over his daughter _______________, who’s lying inert in bed. Parris tells his slave to leave, after she asks how his daughter is doing.

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The door opens and Parris’s niece, ________________ ______________, arrives with Susanna Walcott. Susanna tells the Reverend that Doctor Griggs can find no cure for Betty’s sickness. He thinks there might be an “unnatural cause” to the illness, but Reverend Parris denies this possibility.

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Reverend Parris and his niece discuss the rumors of witchcraft in the village. Parris confronts her about how he found girls dancing in the

. He says she has put his position in the church in danger, as he has many enemies.

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Parris claims his niece has created problems and wonders what the people in the village say about her, especially since Goody

fired her seven months ago.

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Mrs. Ann Putnam enters and wants to know “how high”

flew, indicating the kind of rumors going around.

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Thomas Putnam enters and Parris learns that their daughter,

, is sick, too. Mrs. Putnam believes it is the Devil’s sickness.

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Parris admits he has called for __________ ______________, a renowned witch-hunter, from the neighboring town of Beverly as a precaution.

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Putnam claims to Parris that there are evil spirits at work here. Mrs. Putnam chimes in that she has had _____________ babies die. She admits she sent her daughter ______________ to Tituba, who knows how to speak to the dead, to find out who murdered her babies.

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Rev. Parris, increasingly worried about his

, asks Abigail if that’s what they were up to when he caught them dancing – conjuring spirits. Abigail says Tituba and Ruth were, but she was not.

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Mr. Putnam urges Parris to speak out against

, but Parris is afraid and only agrees to lead the congregation in prayer.

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Left alone, Abigail and Mercy discuss ___________ and ______________’s sickness. Mercy suggests that Abigail try beating Betty to see if that gets her to wake up. Abigail tells Mercy that she can tell them that they danced and that they already know that Tituba conjured Ruth’s sisters to come out of the grave; plus, she adds, the Rev. Parris saw Mercy naked.

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______________ ______________, another seventeen-year-old girl who now works for the Proctors, enters, reporting the whole town is talking about witchcraft. She says they have to tell because “witchery” is a _______________ offense.

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Abigail wakes Betty up, who whimpers, gets off the bed, and cries for her

. Abigail tells her that her mother is dead, while Betty raises the window and starts to climb out before Abigail pulls her back.

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Betty reminds Abigail that she drank _____________ to kill ________________’s ________________.

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Abigail talks to the others, threatening them that if they say anything more than that they danced and Tituba conjured Ruth’s dead sisters, she will bring them a ________________ __________________.