Act I of The Crucible was very interesting. I think that it started out a little bit slowly because if the narration in the beginning, but once you moved on the actual play itself was enjoyable. One thing I think the play touched on was trust. How are your judgment skills impaired when you want to believe the opposite of what that person is saying. For example, when Hale comes to visit Parris’s daughter (Betty) he believes that she is surly under some spell caused by witch craft. He first questions Abigail, Parris’s niece, thinking that she has played some part in her “sickness”, but Abigail shifts the blame to their slave Tituba in order to avoid punishment. To Hale, it only seems right to take the Reverend’s nieces’ word over a slave. When Tituba tries to tell Hale that she did not dabble in witch craft he will not take her word for it. He tells her to either confess or die for her crime. Tituba, although not guilty, must say that she was involved in witch craft, and humiliate herself. Hale desperately wanted to believe that there was witch craft occurring in the town so instead of listening to anyone’s story he bullied people into telling him what he wanted to hear. I think that later on this will cause some major problems throughout the duration of the play.
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