When Elizabeth Proctor finds out that John, her husband, is having an affair with their house keeper, Abigail, she fires abigail immeditly. ... This time, Abigail's plan is sucsessful, when Cheever is at the Proctor house to arrest her, he spots the doll with the pin stuck into it. ... Ann Putnam even asks Tituba to conjure the spirits of her children so they can inform Tituba as to who murdered them. ... When Nurse and Giles come to the Proctor house, they inform them that Cheever has taken their wives to jail. ... Proctor trys to prove to Danforth that Mary is lying and never saw any sp...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Betty, one of the girls that was in the forest, comes down with the flu, or so the town thinks, or that she is possessed with evil spirits and the town forces Tituba to tell them why she has compacted with the devil. ... Tituba then scapegoats all of these questions by saying she saw spirits of some Puritan women form the town. ... One of the major scenes in the play is when Hale is at the Proctors" house and asks if John would recite the ten commandments, and the only one he forgets is the one of adultery, the one that he has committed. ... After this happens in the house, some townsmen ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She points out that 'there is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits', stating a witch hunt could 'set [them] all to arguin' again in the society'. ... She has a wise influence on John, controlling the majority of his actions due to his intense care of her opinion, and is also able to chuck abby out the house. ...

• Word Count: 1154
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate