The Crucible

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of her first seven

children and Giles’ wife reading of strange books which keep him from reciting the Lord’s

prayer. Ironically, he encounters, Tituba, after hearing that this Barbados slave had been

practicing voodoo with the afflicted girls. After Hale puts immense pressure on Tituba to

proclaim herself a witch Hale is able to manipulate Tituba to claim that she had used

witchcraft on the girls. After declaring herself a witch she accuses the names of four

honest and innocent women, thus starting the chain affect of accused witches accusing

others of witchcraft, that soon would follow. So Hale, single-handedly, who was

manipulated by Abigail’s lies and false fits, started the entire conflict with his aggressive

technique to propel Tituba to confess to association with the devil, which in truth had

never covenanted.

At the time in Act Two that Hale enters there is a presence of guilt about him,

which foretells what his mission in the Proctor’s house is, to ...

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already started to question his own actions, but is not

yet at the point of knowing if this "witchcraft" is actually just a lofty act by the

self-proclaimed tortured children. After this insertion Hale begins to ask both Mrs. and

Mr. Proctor if they believe in the existence of witches. Why? Because Hale wants to

make sure his accusations and examinations are believed to be proper in accordance to

what is justifiable in the eyes of fellow townsfolk. A point comes near the end of Act Two

that the audience learns that Goody Nurse, the kindest, most saint-like of Salem, has been

taken into custody under warrant of witchcraft. This is the part where the audience ...

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