Upward Action In The Crucible

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The exhibition is the beginning of the play when Abigail confronts Parris. Give background information to be built on the following acts. Through the exhibition it is discovered that Parris saw the girls with Tituba dancing in the forest that stimulates the witchcraft accusation of the people of the town. Along with the first scene the background information presented before the first scene, in standard format, also details important information about the background of the city and the people. Topics such as religious fervor, theocracy, the importance of reputation, and even the city's problem with land disputes are discussed. Land disputes and other issues are power to gain tools that are important when considering the hidden motives of the …show more content…

In The Crucible, the upward action is the scene in which Abigail and Betty first begin to accuse others of witchcraft. The beginning of the witch hunts is the upward action because it is the catalyst for the progression of history. Girls are able to not only deflect guilt but are also able to get a power they never possessed before. Most accusers are people who have no authority or respect in society, for example, Tituba is a slave of Barbados, but once the witch hunts begin, there is a fear of their mystical knowledge. She is able to scare her slave owner (Parris) with her visions of white men enslaved and tortured by the devil. Once the hysteria swept the city, these lower-class citizens had the opportunity to enact revenge. In the upward action scene Abigail has made this secret and beings to use it to their advantage; this scene is a change from the suspicious calm paranoid exposure and a push towards the climax that will be the effect of all this madness on the …show more content…

The falling action in The Crucible, Hale's plea to be signed with Proctor testifies that he himself is a witch while also condemning six other prisoners of witchcraft. To repeat the ritual of distracting the guilt by accusing someone else - the same cycle that occurred during the game. The scene in which Hale will talk with Proctor leads to the result and possible resolutions for the main danger of the climax. The falling action of Hales's plea sets the resolution, which will be the answer to this decision. Will Proctor blame the innocent to keep his name clean? More importantly, will the protagonist continue the cycle of false accusations? During the falling action, Hale is frantically looking for people to confess to the accusations of the court. Danforth and Hathorne are not in a position to accept that the judgments are erroneous, for the integrity of the court would be crushed and the theocracy would be questioned, and the religious order of Salem would be

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