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Under pressure to explain their peculiar behavior, fearing to be called witches, the girls blamed three women for afflicting them and this began the famous Salem witch hunt and trials and Miller uses this as a development in his play, The Crucible. Hale admits the courts are a lie.Salem, Massachusetts 1692, faced a bizarre incident where number of girls begin to display strange behaviors of uncontrollable fits and even curling up their bodies into weird positions and this rose a lot of suspicion in Salem. They are hoping he will confess after seeing his pregnant wife Elizabeth is called in to talk to John.

Hale is surprised there hasn’t already been a rebellion (orphans and cows wander the streets, crops are going to waste and not being harvested, people are fearful of being the next one accused of witchcraft) He has already killed 12 people and he feels if he lets these seven go, that he has already sentenced to death, it will look like he was wrong in killing the other 12 and will make a mockery of the court.Judge Danforth refuses to grant a pardon or postponement because he does not want to admit he may have made a mistake.Judge Danforth wants to make the courts and himself look good by getting a respected community member to confess.Parris is hoping to avoid a rebellion and therefore protect himself He also received a death threat (dagger on his door).The people who are scheduled to hang now are respected people in the colony.He thinks there might be a rebellion (rumors of rebellion in Andover make him anxious).Abigail and Mercy Lewis have run off and stole 31 pounds of Rev.Hale wants them to confess to save their lives Hale has been going around trying to talk the prisoners into to confessing.In the jail, Sarah Good and Tituba appear to be going crazy they are talking about how the devil is coming to rescue them.

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