The Crucible Summaries

During the fall, Hathorne and Danforth visit Parris in jail. They want to know the reason behind Hale’s return to Salem. Parris promises them that the reverend has imprisoned them in the holdout to pressure them into a confession and avoid being sent to the gallows. Furthermore, he informs them…

The court is in session at Salem. Suddenly Giles shouts out that Putnam only wants to gram extra land. He even offers to give evidence for this claim. Judge Hathorne, Reverends Parris, and Hale, as well as Deputy Governor Danforth, Join Francis and Giles in the vestry to investigate this…

As Proctor and his wife are having dinner, Mary Warren leaves to witness the trials in defiance to Elizabeth’s order. Fourteen people have been imprisoned so far. If the suspected witches fail to confess, they shall be hanged. Anybody named by the girls as they fall into hysteria gets arrested…

The play’s events are set in the year 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. The community is under a theocratic government. Diligent work and religion take up most of the people’s time and energy. However, there are rising land dispute cases that are sowing discord within the community. Reverend Parries’ daughter has…

The events in this story, written by Arthur Miller, take place in New England. Some girls are caught dancing in the middle of the forest with by Reverend Parris. Among them is Betty, Reverend’s daughter. The girls were led by Abigail Williams, Parris’s niece. When Reverend Hale, witchcraft, questions their…

It begins in Salem with a ten-year-old girl in a coma. She is the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris. The reverend caught girls dancing in what looked like a ritual the previous night but on questioning one of them, his niece Abigail, she revealed that it was just a dance….