Reading Journal - The Crucible

The play is set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. The rumor that Betty is the victim of witchcraft is running fast in Salem, and a crowd has collect in Parriss sept. basin Proctor, a local farmer, enters Parris contribute to join the girls. Reverend crush is an intellectual man, and he has examine witchcraft extensively and starts to headway Abigail about the dancing in the forest, but Abigail maintains that the dancing was not connected to witchcraft. Under direful questioning, she insists that she did not call the nettle but that Tituba did. Tituba maintains that someone else is entrancing the children because the devil has many witches in his service. embroil calls for the marshal to puzzle out irons to arrest the criminate witches.\nI chose reverend unanimous because in the first passage he is sure of himself, companionship and actions he has a glow of security. Hale enters in a flurry of activity, carrying large books and intercommunicate an air of great noesis.\ na tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. This is a beloved errand for him; on being called here to insure witchcraft he has matt-up the pride of the specialist whose incomparable knowledge has at extend been publicly called for.(30-31)\nIn this chapter I did like how Hale was presented, with authority. What I really disliked is how Abigail denies everything that she did. My feeling of her is that she´s a hypocrite. I liked how big the graphic symbol of Betty was even though she didnt speak that much. My favorite summon of this chapter was Hales´: we shall need study if it comes to trailing down the old boy (34) It stood out to me because even though this character represents security and knowledge so far I sensed how naïve Hale was because he really image that he was pursuing the devil. \nThe here and now act takes place in the common room of Proctors house eight daylights later. potty Proctor returns from a day in the fields and greets his wife, Elizabeth. They arr est small talk. Elizabeth is disturbed to r...