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Dancing in the Woods
Abigail, the Reverend Parris' niece, was dancing in the forest in the middle of the night with the slave Tituba. -
Praying
Reverend kneels in prayer in front of his daughter’s bed because of the rumor that Betty is the victim of witchcraft. -
The Call
Parris called Reverend Hale who was an expert of witchcraft, to determine whether Betty, his daugther, is indeed bewitched. -
Tituba Acussation
Abigail warns the other girls to confess only that they danced and that Tituba conjured Ruth’s dead sisters. She threatens to kill them if they breathe a word about the other things that they did. -
Betty's room
Thomas Putnam and his wife enter the room. Mrs. Putnam reports that their own daughter, Ruth, is as sick as Betty. Parris agrees to meet the crowd and pray, but he refuses to mention witchcraft until he gets Reverend Hale’s opinion. -
Betty sits up
She cries for her mother, but her mother is dead and buried. Abigail tells the girls that she has told Parris everything about their activities in the woods, but Betty cries that Abigail did not tell Parris about drinking blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife. -
Proctor enters Betty's room
John Proctor, a local farmer, enters Parris’s house to join the girls. He is uneasy with himself because he had conducted an extramarital affair with Abigail. He admits that he still has kind feelings for her but asserts that their relationship is over. -
Hale's arrival
Parris relates to Hale the tale of finding the girls dancing in the forest at night.Hale questions Abigail about the dancing in the forest, but Abigail maintains that the dancing was not connected to witchcraft. Abigail and Betty, in ecstasy, alternate in say the names they accusssed. Hale calls for the marshal to arrest the accused witches. -
Jail
Fourteen people are now in jail.If these accused witches do not confess, they will be hanged. -
The gift
Mary Warrent, Proctor's servant, gives Elizabeth a doll that she sewed in court, saying that it is a gift. She reports that thirty-nine people now stand accused and Elizabeth’s name was mentioned in the accusations.Elizabeth is convinced that it was Abigail who accused her of witchcraft, in order to take her place in John’s bed. -
Hale visit to Proctor's house
Hale visits the Proctors because he wants to speak with everyone whose name has been mentioned in connection with witchcraft.Hale notes that the Proctors have not often attended church. Proctor explains that he does not like Parris’s particular theology. Hale asks them to recite the Ten Commandments and Proctor forgets the commandment prohibiting adultery. -
Elizabeth's arrest
The town marshal arrive with a warrant for Elizabeth’s arrest. He finds the doll Mary gave Elizabeth, with a needle inside it He relates that Parris found a needle in Abigail abdomen, and so she accused Elizabeth of witchcraft. -
The threat
Proctor tells Mary that she has to testify in court that she made the doll and put the needle in it. Mary declares that Abigail will kill her if she does and that Abigail would only charge him with lechery. -
Elizabeth and Proctor's figth
Elizabeth wants Proctor to testify that the accusations are fake. He says that he cannot prove his allegation because Abigail told him this information while they were alone in a room. Elizabeth loses all faith in her husband because of this. He says that he feels as though his home is a courtroom, but she responds that the real court is in his own heart. -
Proctor and Mary in the court
Mary testifies that she and the other girls were only pretending to be afflicted by witchcraft. Proctor assures him that he just wants to free his wife and the judge tells him that he need not worry about Elizabeth because she is pregnant. Proctor submits a deposition signed by 91 land-owning farmers attesting to the good characters of Elizabeth, Martha, and Rebecca. -
The judge sends for Abigail and her girls
Abigail denies Mary’s testimony, as well as her explanation for the doll in the Proctor home. Mary asserts that the girls are only pretending and they accuse Mary of bewitching them. -
The climax
The judge asks why she fired Abigail and she claims to have gotten the mistaken notion that Proctor fancied Abigail, so she lost her temper and fired the girl without just cause.Proctor cries out that he confessed his sin, but it is too late for Elizabeth to change her story. -
Proctor is accussed
Abigail and the girls begin screaming that Mary is sending her spirit at them and she become infected with the hysteria of the girls. Proctor tries to touch her, but she calls him the devil’s man. The judge orders Proctor’s arrest. Hale denounces the proceedings and declares that he is quitting the court. -
The court is in session
Giles interrupts the proceedings by shouting that Putnam only wants more land. He claims to have evidence to back up this assertion but he refuses to name the man who gave him the information because he does not want to open him to Putnam’s vengeance and so Giles is arrested. -
Proctor leaps at Abigail
He calls her a whore and confesses his affair with her and explains that Elizabeth fired her when she discovered it.He claims that Abigail wants Elizabeth to hang so that she can take her place in his home. The judge orders Abigail and Proctor to turn their backs, and he sends for Elizabeth, who is reputed to be honest. -
ELizabeth and Proctor
Elizabeth trys to convince Proctor to confess. She tells him about Gil and his death. -
Forgiveness
Hale now appears sorrowful. He wants to pardon the prisoners because the prisoners will not confess. Danforth replies that postponement will cast doubt not only on the guilt of the seven remaining prisoners but also on that of the twelve who have hanged already. -
Confession
Proctor confesses. Danforth takes Rebecca at a witness. anforth asks him if he ever saw Rebecca Nurse in the devil’s company. Proctor states that he did not. Danforth reads the names of the condemned out loud and asks if he ever saw any of them with the devil. Proctor again replies in the negative. Danforth pressures him to name other guilty parties, but Proctor declares that he will speak only about his own sins. -
Proctor´s death
When arriving in the town square, John Proctor and two other woman get sentenced to hang. As they are waiting to be hung they begin to say The Lord's Prayer out to the people. Just as John finishes his prayer the rope gets dropped and John Proctor is dead.
