Act I Blog

In act 1, we see many strange things happening.  There is mass hysteria all over the town and people don't seem to know what to do.  They accuse each other of witchcraft and the town goes crazy.  Of course the mob effect doesn't help things at all.  Just because someone said that they saw someone else practicing witchcraft the person was right away being attacked by the mob.  We saw in the movie that just because Tituba was being accused Reverend Hale and the mob showed up at her living area and beat her until she confessed, repented, and started naming names that she saw with the devil.  Of course if you are hurting someone they will eventually tell you what you want to make it stop.  Because of this issue it just made it more hysteria because no one wanted to be accused.  We also see Abigail start to come into power.  Because of this Mrs Proctor is afraid that she will be accused.  She thinks this because of the affair that went on between Mr. Proctor and Abigail.  She thinks that Abigail will try and replace her.