In act one we meet Reverend Samuel Parris, Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Mrs. Ann Putman, Thomas Putman, Mercy Lewis, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, Reverend John Hale, and Tituba for the first time. The setting in act one is that the night before Parris has found Betty and Abigail together with the other girls in Salem dancing around an open fire while Tituba where singing. Now Betty is not waking up, and another girl in the town is just lying in her bed with her eyes open, she is alive but it looks like her soul is gone. Parris and everyone in the village think this is witchcraft, and when the doctor can’t help the girls, Parris send for a man called Reverend John Hale, a man who can find the devil, and send him out of the town. Abigail tell Parris that their where just dancing, and not doing any witchcraft, but he does not believe her. In the end of the play all the girls and Tituba scream out names of them they have seen with the devil.
The characters I think are more important than the others are Abigail, John Hale and John Proctor. Because they are special in their own way, and I got the feeling of that we are to see more of them throughout the play.
