Act 4 Of The Crucible

The Crucible Act Four

Human activity Four

Setting: a Salem cell
Herrick comes in, drunk, and nudges Sarah Proficient to wake her up. Tituba also wakes up. Herrick tells the 2 of them to get out of there. He asks where they're going and Tituba says they're going to Barbados.
When they hear a moo-cow bellowing, Tituba says it is "the majesty" and calls out for it to take her dwelling house.
The Deputy Governor arrives. Danforth and Hathorne enter, followed by Cheever. They desire to know when Hale arrived and what he was doing here.
Herrick says that he sits and prays with those who are going to hang.
Danforth says that homo has no correct to be here, and so why does Herrick let him in?
Herrick says that Parris has commanded it. Danforth wants to know if he's drunk, and Herrick lies, maxim no, information technology's but cold in there.
Angry, knowing Herrick is lying, Danforth commands that he fetch Parris, so comments on how information technology stinks like liquor.
When Herrick leaves, Hathorne and Danforth talk well-nigh the Hale and Parris situation. They find information technology strange that Parris is too praying with Hale, and Hathorne wonders if Parris has started to go crazy.
Cheever speaks up and says it'due south the cows. So many owners are in jail that their cows are wandering effectually all over the place, and everybody is arguing well-nigh who they belong to at present. Parris has been trying to resolve the disputes.
Parris walks in and greets Danforth and Hathorne. Danforth immediately tells him that he shouldn't let Hale in to come across the prisoners, but Parris says that Unhurt has been urging Rebecca Nurse to confess and save her life.
And then Parris admits that his niece Abigail has disappeared with Mercy Lewis. He thinks they've boarded a send and escaped the expanse. Abigail even broke into his strongbox and took all his money.
Parris thinks the rebellion in Andover, where they threw out the witchcraft court (a rebellion Danforth says is over) is what has caused Abigail to flee.
Then Parris starts standing upwards for those who are left to hang. He says some of those who hanged earlier were bad sorts—they drank their family to ruin, or they lived in sin for some years earlier marrying—only Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor are practiced people. Hathorne responds that she is condemned every bit a witch, and Parris suggests that they postpone the hangings for some fourth dimension. Danforth denies the request only does say that he volition work until dawn with those who might withal be brought to God.
And so Parris says that his life is in danger, equally he has received threats. If Danforth continues by hanging these folks….
Reverend Hale enters, looking sorrowful and tired and confrontational.
He asks Danforth to pardon those who take yet to exist punished, just Danforth says he can't do that since others have already been hanged for the same crime.
They turn their conversation to Proctor, and Danforth wonders if he might modify his mind and confess if he sees his married woman, who is now very pregnant. Parris thinks it's possible, while Hale urges Danforth again to postpone. He suggests that if he doesn't, he volition urge people to rebel.
Why are you hither, Danforth wants to know. Unhurt responds that he'due south here to practice the Devil'southward work—to urge Christians to lie.
Herrick enters with Elizabeth. Hale urges her to speak with her hubby, to hogtie him to confess so he can live. He says he fabricated mistakes in the by and he will count himself a murderer if Proctor hangs.
And then Danforth joins in the urging, though with a different purpose—he thinks Proctor is guilty. He asks Elizabeth if she is a stone. Her married man is going to hang in the morning—doesn't she want him to live?
Elizabeth says she would like to see him, only she doesn't promise to convince him of anything.
John Proctor at present enters, a inverse man—bearded, dirty. He and Elizabeth look at each other with deep sorrow and emotion.
Hale asks Danforth to give them some privacy, and and so the men file out, though it takes Parris a trivial longer—he needs to receive an "icy stare" from Proctor earlier he gets the point.
At first, Elizabeth and Proctor discuss the kid that is notwithstanding to be born, and who is taking intendance of the other children. Elizabeth says many take confessed, a hundred or more, just Rebecca refuses to confess.
Giles Corey was tortured to decease when huge stones were put on his chest to try to brand him confess. He refused to confess, only he also refused to deny the accuse; doing so would have meant he could not have passed his subcontract on to his sons.
Proctor says he has been thinking he would confess, and he wants to know what she would think of this. She says she would non judge him. He says he is not a proficient human, and if he goes to the hanging without confessing, he is saying he is a adept human being.
He wants Elizabeth's forgiveness. She says information technology is not hers to give.
He asks over again. She says he needs to forgive himself, simply she near sobs as she says it.
Then Elizabeth says she knows he's a good man. She says information technology takes a cold wife to plough a man into a lecher. He is taking her sins upon himself, she says. She believes that she didn't dearest herself, and so she couldn't accept his love.
Hathorne enters and asks Proctor what he would say. Dawn is breaking. Proctor says he wants his life, and Hathorne leaves, saying that Proctor is going to confess.
Proctor turns to his wife and asks her if what he has washed is evil, and she sobs, saying she will non judge.
Hathorne, Danforth, Cheever, Parris, and Hale enter, praising God and saying that Proctor must sign his confession. Just at that, Proctor balks. He does not want to write his confession out. He will confess verbally merely he volition not sign.
Proctor is in the middle of making his exact confession when Rebecca Nurse enters. She is shocked and dismayed to hear him confess.
Danforth asks Proctor if he ever saw any of the others with the Devil, but Proctor denies e'er seeing any of them with the Devil.
Then Danforth says he cannot have the confession, as it is a prevarication. Others have already said they saw these people, including Rebecca Nurse, with the Devil.
If that is true, Proctor counters, and then why does he demand Proctor to also say it?
Hale steps in and asks Danforth to take Proctor's confession. It is enough, he says, that he is convicting himself.
Danforth accepts the confession, simply Proctor still won't sign. And Danforth won't be satisfied without a signature. So Proctor signs, but and so he won't requite the signed confession back to Danforth.
When Danforth protests, Proctor says that God sees his sins and that is enough. He says he has iii children and he cannot teach them what is right and skilful if he sells his friends out.
Danforth suggests it is no different if he says Proctor said something or if Proctor signs it, but Proctor says that's not true. This is his name, the but proper noun he has; he has given Danforth his soul, just he won't give him his name.
And so Danforth says the document is a prevarication, and he can't take it.
Proctor tears the newspaper and crumples it. Danforth calls for the Marshal, while Parris and Unhurt plead with Proctor to change his mind.
Merely Proctor says he will go to his decease with at least some goodness in him.
As Elizabeth bursts into tears, he tells her not to cry because that gives them pleasure.
Rebecca counsels him not to be agape because "some other judgment waits u.s.a. all."
Danforth and Herrick exit. Rebecca starts to faint, and Proctor catches her. She apologizes, saying she has had no breakfast.
Herrick takes the ii of them out. Parris urges Elizabeth to go to her husband while at that place's nonetheless fourth dimension. They hear the burst of drums.
Hale, also, pleads with her to go talk to her hubby, to convince him not to surrender his life for aught.
But Elizabeth says she cannot take his goodness from him, now that he has information technology.
The drums crash and Hale "weeps in frantic prayer," while the sunrise lights up Elizabeth'southward face.
The curtain falls.