The Crucible starts off giving incite on one of the main characters in the story, and it also ends on foreshadowing of what will happen in the first act. In the introduction, it also gives us incited on what happened, and why it happened. Were there really witches? Were their really devils? Or was it all a big hoax? At first the story puts a setting on where act 1 will probably take place. This is in a small upper bedroom of Samuel Paris in Salem Massachusetts in the spring of year 1692. As the curtain opens, Samuel Paris is discovered kneeling at the bed praying. His daughter is lying on the bed motionless and still. At that time, wherever Samuel Paris went it seemed like he w