By Arthur Miller
According to ancient humans and genuine occasions, Arthur Miller's play makes use of the damaging energy of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by means of the rumors of witchcraft as a strong parable approximately McCarthyism.
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I sent my child-she should learn from Tituba who murdered her sisters. REBECCA, the dead? horrified: Goody Ann! You sent a child to conjure up MRS. PUTNAM: Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca! I'll not have you judging me any more! To Hale: Is it a natural work to lose seven children before they live a day? PARRIS: Sssh! Rebecca, with great pain, turns her face away. There is a pause. HALE: Seven dead in childbirth. MRS. PUTNAM, softly: Aye. Her voice breaks; she looks up at him. Silence.
11 in terror: No one was naked! You mistake yourself, with anger: I saw it! He moves from her. Then, resolved: Now tell me true, Abigail. And I pray you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry's at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousin's life. Whatever abomination you have done, give me all of it now, for I dare not be taken unaware when I go before them down there. PARRIS, ABIGAIL: There is nothin' more. I swear it, uncle. PARRIS, studies her, then nods, half convinced: Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character.
PARRIS, He is bending to kneel again when his niece, Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters-a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety. Uncle? He looks to her. Susanna Walcott's here from Doctor Griggs. ABIGAIL: PARRIS: Oh? Let her come, let her come. ABIGAIL, leaning out the door to call to Susanna, who is down the hall a few steps: Come in, Susanna. Susanna Walcott, a little younger than Abigail, a nervous, hurried girl, enters.