Abigail, the ringleader of the girls, admits to only dancing in the forest. Parris questions Abigail Williams, who is Parris’s niece, about the events that happened in the forest. Parris calls in witchcraft expert, Reverend Hale.
Rumours of witchcraft start to float around the town while a herd gathers around Betty’s bed. Reverend Parris’s daughter, Betty, falls deep into a coma-like state. While dancing, Reverend Parris catches them. In The Crucible, a group of girls go dancing in the forest late at night with a Barbados slave Tituba. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that tells a partially fictionalised and dramatised story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 16. Examples of abuse of power in the Crucible: Abigail.
Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem." The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.
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