ACT 1 lines from the Crucible

"She made me do it. She made Betty do it! She makes me drink blood."

Abigail : Abigail was using Tituba as a scapegoat, telling Parris that she was forced to do it. She saw this as the perfect opportunity to loose all the blame not caring who she took down in the process.

"My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled."

Abigail Williams: Abigail is arguing with her uncle about how she hasn't done anything in the village and how people respect her name. Reverend Parris is questioning her because she was fired from her post of servant for John Proctor and his wife. Abigail is lying because she has slept with John Proctor and that is why she was dismissed.

"I saw your face when she put me out and you loved me then and you love me now."

Abigail Williams: Abigail is confronting John Proctor about their affair and how she feels for him. She desires for him to leave his wife and be with her instead. Elizabeth Proctor is the one who fired Abigail.

" I want to open myself. I danced with the devil."

Abigail: This was when she confessed to witnessing and being under the influence of witches. Then she started listing people who she "saw" at these meetings. This is a fake confession made by Abigail as a way of escaping blame.

"You did it, you did it. You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife."

Betty Parris: Betty has awakened from her trance and yelling at Abigail about what happened in the woods the previous night. She is distressed because if any of the adults find out, then they could be hanged for witchcraft.

"Be you foolish Mary Warren? Why should I pay you? I am looking for you more often than my cows."

John Proctor: All the girls are freaking out that they might be accused of witchcraft. John Proctor walks into the room where Betty is faking her illness and kicks Mary out. This is an example of sarcasm, relating Mary to a cow when she disappears all the time.

"I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the Earth. And so I thought to send her to your Tituba."

Mrs. Putnam Mrs. Putnam is speaking to Reverend Parris about her children and how all but one of them died at birth. She also mentions that she sent her daughter, Ruth, to Tituba to commune with their spirits, which is witchcraft, but later accuses others of witchcraft.

"There are wheels within wheels in this village and fires within fires."

Mrs.Putnam: Mrs.Putnam is telling Rebecca Nurse that within the town, supernatural events are transpiring and that there is more to the town than it seems. These people are looking for ways to get back at people using revenge. Her statement could also symbolize that there are groups within the town that desire for events to favor their cause.

"I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of Hell upon her."

Reverend Hale: Reverend Hale is telling Reverend Parris that before he begins his examination of Betty, Parris must accept the results no matter what. Parris agrees and Hale discovers no "evidence" that Betty has been affected by witchcraft.

"If you have trafficked with the devil, I must know for surely my enemies will and they will ruin me with it."

Reverend Parris: Parris is speaking to Abigail and asking her to tell him if she and Betty communed with the devil while dancing in the woods. He is desperate to find out the truth because he thinks that someone that is against him will use it to remove him from his position as minister

"Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly."

Reverend Parris: Parris is speaking to Susanna Walcott and informing her that he has called for Reverend Hale who is supposedly an "expert" in witchcraft and will help figure out what is going on with Betty.

" Mr. Corey, you will look hard for a man of my kind at sixty pounds a year."

Reverend Parris: Reverend Parris feel entitled to lots of perks and he thinks that he should earn more money than what he is making. John Proctor disagrees and thinks that Parris is way too greedy. Parris thinks that because he graduated from harvard he is better than the other ministers.

"He had no right to sell it. It stands clear in my grandfather's will then all the land between the river..."

Thomas Putnam: Putnam is telling John Proctor that he can not take the lumber from land that John bought from the Nurse family, because it supposedly belongs to him. This interaction between them may incite future conflict during the trials.

"He say Mr.Parris must be kill. Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr.Parris mean man and no gentleman.''

Tituba: Tituba is a saying that the devil told her to kill Parris. She also names Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn as witches in the devil's employ.

"I don't know sir, but the Devil got him numerous witches."

Tituba: Tituba is claiming that the Devil has visited her at night, after being accused by Reverend Hale and Abigail of witchcraft. She also names several women in town as witches in order to prevent herself from being whipped to death by Parris.