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Everything you need for your GCSE/IGCSE English Literature exam. Act-by-act plot summary, character analysis, key themes with evidence, important quotations with analysis, historical context, exam technique, and practice questions with AI feedback.
The play opens in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Reverend Parris has discovered his daughter Betty, his niece Abigail Williams, and other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba, his slave from Barbados. Betty has fallen into a mysterious coma-like state. Parris fears witchcraft rumours will destroy his reputation. The community gathers, and old grudges surface: the Putnams blame witchcraft for their dead children; Thomas Putnam eyes land he might acquire if neighbours are convicted. John Proctor arrives and privately confronts Abigail — they had an affair while she worked as his servant, and he has ended it. Abigail is still obsessed with Proctor and reveals the girls were only dancing, not conjuring spirits. Reverend Hale, an expert on witchcraft, arrives to investigate. Under pressure, Tituba “confesses” to dealing with the Devil and names others. Abigail, seeing confession as power, joins in, and Betty wakes to add more names. A frenzy of accusation begins.
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Eight days later, John and Elizabeth Proctor discuss the trials at home. Their marriage is strained by John's affair with Abigail. Elizabeth urges John to go to Salem and expose Abigail as a fraud. Mary Warren, their servant and one of the accusers, returns from court and reveals that thirty-nine people have been arrested and that Elizabeth has been “somewhat mentioned.” She gives Elizabeth a poppet (doll) she made in court. Reverend Hale visits the Proctors to assess their Christian character, and John struggles to remember the Ten Commandments — significantly forgetting the one about adultery. Ezekiel Cheever and Marshal Herrick arrive with an arrest warrant for Elizabeth: Abigail has accused her. The evidence is a poppet with a needle in it, supposedly used to harm Abigail by witchcraft. John realises Abigail is targeting Elizabeth to replace her. He tears up the warrant and sends Elizabeth to jail declaring he will “fall like an ocean on that court.”
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The act takes place in the Salem courthouse. Proctor brings Mary Warren to testify that the girls are faking. Giles Corey presents evidence that Thomas Putnam is using the trials to grab land. Judge Danforth, proud and rigid, refuses to postpone proceedings or consider that the girls might be lying. Proctor presents a petition signed by ninety-one people attesting to the good character of the accused — Danforth orders all signers arrested for examination. When Mary Warren testifies that the girls are pretending, Abigail and the girls turn on her, pretending she is sending out her spirit against them. In desperation, Proctor confesses his adultery with Abigail to discredit her. Danforth brings Elizabeth in to confirm — but Elizabeth, not knowing John has confessed, lies to protect his reputation, denying the affair. Abigail resumes her performance. Mary Warren, terrified, turns on Proctor and accuses him of being “the Devil's man.” Proctor is arrested. Hale, appalled, quits the court.
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Three months later. The jail is overcrowded; crops rot in the fields because the farmers are in prison; Abigail has stolen Parris's money and fled. Neighbouring towns have rejected the witch trials, and Parris fears rebellion. Danforth refuses to postpone the hangings, fearing it would cast doubt on the twelve already executed. Hale, consumed by guilt, returns to urge prisoners to confess falsely and save their lives. Elizabeth is brought to persuade Proctor. In their painful reunion, Elizabeth admits her own coldness contributed to the affair. Proctor considers confessing falsely. He signs a confession but refuses to let it be displayed publicly — he will not give up his name. When Danforth demands the signed paper, Proctor tears it up, choosing to die rather than live a lie. He goes to the gallows with Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey. Elizabeth, asked to change his mind, refuses: “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.”
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