In the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls goes dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the local minister, Reverend Parris. A crowd gathers in the Parris home while rumors of witchcraft fill the town. While Parris tries to calm the crowd that has gathered in his home, Abigail talks to some of the other girls, telling them not to admit to anything.
John Proctor, a local farmer, then enters and talks to Abigail alone. Abigail still desires Proctor, but he fends her off and tells her to end her foolishness with the girls. Betty wakes up and begins screaming. Much of the crowd rushes upstairs and gathers in her bedroom, arguing over whether she is bewitched. A separate argument between Proctor, Parris, the argumentative Giles Corey, and the wealthy Thomas Putnam soon ensues.
This dispute centers on money and land deeds, and it suggests that deep fault lines run through the Salem community. As the men argue, Reverend Hale arrives and examines Betty, while Proctor departs. After Parris and Hale interrogate her for a brief time, Tituba confesses to communing with the devil, and she hysterically accuses various townsfolk of consorting with the devil.
Suddenly, Abigail joins her, confessing to having seen the devil conspiring and cavorting with other townspeople. Betty joins them in naming witches, and the crowd is thrown into an uproar. A week later, alone in their farmhouse outside of town, John and Elizabeth Proctor discuss the ongoing trials and the escalating number of townsfolk who have been accused of being witches. Elizabeth urges her husband to denounce Abigail as a fraud; he refuses, and she becomes jealous, accusing him of still harboring feelings for her.
Mary is sent up to bed, and John and Elizabeth continue their argument, only to be interrupted by a visit from Reverend Hale. While they discuss matters, Giles Corey and Francis Nurse come to the Proctor home with news that their wives have been arrested. Officers of the court suddenly arrive and arrest Elizabeth. After they have taken her, Proctor browbeats Mary, insisting that she must go to Salem and expose Abigail and the other girls as frauds.
The next day, Proctor brings Mary to court and tells Judge Danforth that she will testify that the girls are lying. Proctor persists in his charge, convincing Danforth to allow Mary to testify. Mary tells the court that the girls are lying. When the girls are brought in, they turn the tables by accusing Mary of bewitching them. With this she also disproves Proctor eliminating her strongest opposer.
Like Liked by 1 person. This is another good reason why Abigail would use the fake evidence. I wonder if she completely hates John Proctor now, or if she still loves him some? Abigail turns the court against Mary by using fake evidence against her during the trial to prove Mary is the witch. Abigail did this by her and her friends mimicking what Mary was saying after she said it. The reason Abigail wants to prove Mary is a witch is because then her accusations of Abigail and the others would be dismissed by the court.
I wonder, was it planned that Mary Warren would be the witch, who was possessed by the devil, who turned out to be John Proctor. This seems planned to some degree, as it flowed so smoothly.
Abigail and the rest of the girls put on a performance for the court as proof that Mary Warren is sending out her spirit on Abigail. This is how they turn the court against Mary. Abigail pretends to see a yellow bird in the rafters, the other girls catch on quickly.
They pretend the bird is Mary doing something evil. And pretty soon Danforth is asking Mary if she made a compact with the devil. I agree with you because Abigail accuses Mary Warren because Mary Warren was confessing the truth, and Abigail did not want to be found out for being a fraud and sending people off to be punished, with the help of her group of friends. Abigail did the same thing as everyone in Salem who was ever accused.
She blamed someone else. This always works, and especially since Abigail and her crew are well practiced fakers.
Why do you come yellow bird? I see no bird! Abigail: My face? My face? Proctor: Do you see a bird? Proctor: Lies, lies. Danforth: Why does she see this vision? This passage shows that Abigail turns the court against Mary Warren by accusing her of witchcraft. The other members of the court believe her when the other girls follow suit.
In the end they all believe that Mary Warren was convinced to do witchcraft by John Proctor because in the end it shows that Mary Warren decided to accuse John Proctor of doing so, because she did not want to hang for being a witch by Abigail Williams.
Hale knows that this is a lie. This, however, did not happen. The witch hunt had begun, people were scared, and were looking to lynch someone. Abigail turns that court against Mary Warren by making it seem as if Mary was taking shape of a bird and perching herself on the rafters of the court. Mercy, Betty, and Ruth also repeat everything that Mary says, making it seem like she is controlling them even more.
Her wings are spreading! Hale denounces the proceedings because he believes Proctor. I-I have indeed. It is his own suspicion, but he resists it.
Danforth was so convinced by acting that he would never have agreed to stop the trials. The girls should have gone into acting for the job they could do. Salem never stood a chance, from the beginning, to the bloody, murderous end. I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud-God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
Some side thoughts: What will happen now that Abigails sweetheart is sentenced to death? This play must have been fun to act, the sheer power of the emotion involved is overwhelming. Abigail does not use her wits to turn the court against Mary Warren, but rather her acting skills. Abigail pretends she sees a bird in the rafters, and that the bird represented the spirit of Mary Warren. All of the others girls support Abigail with screams and mimicking in unison. I agree, I think that Abby is willing to do anything and everything that she can to save herself, no matter how many people she is hurting.
Definitely her acting! All she had to do was tell the other girls to follow her lead and they had a little routine all set to get the court to turn on mary. There is no way that Abby would go down by Mary Waren, and being the cafty person she is she was able to turn the cort agnst Mary.
Because the judges believed that there was witchcraft going around all Abby had to do was say that Mary was a witch and she was trying to hurt her and the other girls, so Betty and the other beign accused allong with Abby just played allong.
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