He is shown to have child-like connotations ‘quaking with fear,’ ‘scrambling to his feet’ and ‘mumbling through his sobs.’ Parris on the surface appears to be anxious and nervous about his daughter but he is actually just worried about his reputation.More to show that everyone blames each other is when talking about Tituba ‘trouble in this house eventually lands on her back’ showing that when their is trouble it is passed to other people such as Tituba.The first description of Rev Parris is that ‘he cut a villainous path’ and that ‘there is very little good to be said for him.’.The description of Rev Parris ‘kneeling beside the bed’ in which ‘Betty Parris.is lying on’ straightaway shows the audience that something is wrong with his daughter. Opening description of Reverend Parris’ bedroom, ‘an air of clean spareness,’ and ‘wood colours are raw and unmellowed,’ shows how his room is basic and bare.Describes how it was an area and a time whereby ‘hatreds of neighbours could now be openly spite the bibles charitable injunctions,’ and ‘one could cry witch against ones neighbour and feel perfectly justified.’.
People of Salem are suspicious of each other- ‘this predilection for minding other peoples business’ (they had a fondness of knowing everyone’s business) and it was this that ‘created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness.’ This foreshadows events that will occur. Described as a ‘strict and somber way of life.’ People of Salem ‘did not celebrate Christmas’ and are ‘not permitted.to read a novel.’ Showing that they are religious and very strict. The Crucible shows how religious fervor fuels hysteria and leads to conditions that sacrifice justice and reason.Context Detailed description of Salem at the beginning, of Act 1. And if the devil is attacking your town, then ensuring that your neighbor is punished for selling you a sick pig suddenly becomes a religious necessity, a righteous act that protects the God you love and proves that you're not a witch or a devil-worshipper. Some citizens of Salem use the charge of witchcraft willfully and for personal gain, but most are genuinely overcome by the town's collective hysteria: they believe the devil is attacking Salem. In The Crucible, hysterical fear becomes an unconscious means of expressing the resentment and anger suppressed by strict Puritan society. Fear feeds fear: in order to explain to itself why so many people are afraid, the community begins to believe that the fear must have legitimate origins. The town of Salem falls into mass hysteria, a condition in which community-wide fear overwhelms logic and individual thought and ends up justifying its own existence. In The Crucible, neighbors suddenly turn on each other and accuse people they've known for years of practicing witchcraft and devil-worship.
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