Explain who was to blame for Witchcraft Hysteria it the play write The Crucible
...girls, and a servant from the Caribbean named Tituba dance around in a order that they believe it will kill Proctor's wife. Rev. Parris, Abigail's uncle, sees this and reports it. When Abigail is questioned about this, she denies everything and doesn't tell the truth about what really happened. The news of her and the other girl's strange actions gets around and the hysteria starts. Without Abigail's superstition, and her fear or telling the truth, I think the events in The Crucible wouldn't have gotten as serious as they did or even started. John Proctor was another catalyst to the witch hysteria in Salem. John Proctor has an affair with Abigail, but he and his wife do make up and get along well. John Proctor adds to the hysteria when he and his wife are talking about Abigail and why she is acting so oddly. Although John Proctor knows she is making up everything and blaming innocent people, he is reluctant to travel to Salem and testify her as a fraud to the court. If he would have done this the witch trials could have stopped there. Another way John Proctor could have contributed to this madness but his moral didn't let him occurs when at the end of Act IV he says he will confess to the law who he saw with the devil in order to save himself from dying or from imprisonment. Fortunately, John Proctor realizes this is wrong and he does not give the confession and he hangs because of it. Although eventually John Proctor did add to the hysteria a little, he still helped it stop. The last person I think was played a big part in the spirit of the witch hysteria is Governor Danforth. Danforth was a big part of the actual trials and his court system was very brutal and uncivilized, in fact he said, "If you are not with the court, you are against it" which basically means in my opinion, if you are on trial and you don't believe what the court believes then you are guilty. His words in this sentence where a huge part of the conclusion on what eventually happened to the girls and all that were involved. The court believed they were all witches an...