The Crucible: Act One

     This week, we started reading The Crucible. It is a play by Arthur Miller about the Salem Witch Trials. When I first saw how long it is, I thought it was going to be boring and take forever. Once I started reading it I realized it's actually pretty interesting. It's fascinating how all those people were accused of being witches. People would just claim other people of being witches to make themselves seem better or because they didn't want to get in trouble. For example, Abigail said they were dancing and Betty got scared because Parris jumped out and scared her. Parris doesn't believe her and thinks Betty was actually bewitched. Mary Warren thinks they should just confess what they did so they don't get in even more trouble. Eventually, Abigail claims it was Tituba that called the devil. Tituba confesses and wants to be healed. So they finally know the truth, but don't know how to fix it. I think it's strange that when Betty heard the psalm she whined and they said that she doesn't like to hear the Lord's name. She was obviously conscious and could hear what was going on, but no one thought twice about it. Finally, I think this play is going to turn out to be very interesting and I think I'll learn a lot from it.