I am paid little enough without I spend six pound on firewood. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire! He had fought the Indians at Narragansett, and was deeply interested in parish affairs. Ill speak further on that with you. Mercy: And what more? A childs spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back, Proctor: Aye, thats the truth of it, Rebecca. Abigail: Betty? ABIGAIL: Uncle? The Crucible full text. And we will bless you, Tituba. Abigail: Why, it were beans - and lentils, I think, and - Hale: Mr. Parris, you did not notice, did you, any living thing in the kettle? Theyll be callin us witches, Abby! Abigail: She is blackening my name in the village! Abigail: No, sir! Rebecca: Pray, John, be calm. She rises. Trying to retain a shred of dignity, she goes slowly out. She is white-haired, leaning upon her walking-stick. Did Tituba ask you to drink it? You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes. Proctor: Then whats he coming for? The room gives op an air of clean spareness. Ill wait till Mr. Hale arrives. Parris turns to Betty, a frantic terror rising in him. Act One 9 endless capacity for dissembling. The Crucible By Arthur Miller ACT I: Scene 1 SETTING: A bedroom in Reverend Samuel Parris' house, Salem, Massachusetts, in the Spring of the year, 1692. Even the This squabble grew to the proportions of a battle in the woods be-tween partisans of both sides, and it is said to have lasted for two days. Parris, horrified: Woman! Probably more than the creed, hard work kept the morals of the place from spoiling, for the people were forced to fight the land like heroes for every grain of corn, and no man had very much time for fooling around. Parris: Then why can she not move herself since midnight? Abigail: Betty, you never say that again! Act One 33 to ascertain witchcraft he felt the pride of the specialist whose unique knowledge has at last been publicly called for. Abominations are done in the forest - Abigail: It were sport, uncle! A woman, you said. Hale: Its strange how I knew you, but I suppose you look as such a good soul should. Act One 15 Thomas Putnams brother-in-law, had been rejected; the motif of resentment is clear here. Abigail, leaning out the door to call to Susanna, who is down the hall a few steps: Come in, Susanna. Mercy sidles out. There is a narrow window at the left. He was a widower with no interest in children, or talent with them. Rebecca, in thought, now leaves the bedside and sits. 31 Proctor: I mean it solemnly, Rebecca; I like not the smell of this authority. Rebecca: No, you cannot break charity with your minister. Salem had been established hardly forty years before. She goes to Betty and roughly sits her up. Abigail, grasping his hand before he can release her: John - I am waitin for you every night. In meeting, he felt insulted if someone rose to shut the door without first asking his permission. Putnam: She cannot bear to hear the Lords name, Mr. Hale; thats a sure sign of witchcraft afloat. Paaris, with resolution now: Betty! Putnam: She cannot bear to hear the' Lords name, Mr. Hale; thats a sure sign of witchcraft afloat. Parris: I regard that six pound as part of my salary. Parris looks to him. The child remains limp in his hands. Ive heard.promise of that outside. And his belief is not to his discredit. Last night - mark this - I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. Mrs. Putnam: Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca! Hale: Its strange how I knew you, but I suppose you look as such a good soul should. Putnam, pleased, It does not seem to help us today, Mr. Hale. Parris is continually beset with fears that others conspire against him. TiTUBA: Aye, sir, a good Christian woman. Document continues below. You would be a good Christian woman, would you not, Tituba? Out of my - He is overcome with sobs. Why, Goody Putnam, come in. Mr. Parris, I beg your pardon. Here are all your familiar spirits - your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Surely youll pray with them. I just come from the farm; the whole countrys talkin witchcraft! With ill-concealed resentment at him: Do you begrudge my bed, uncle? Tituba is in her forties. PRoctoR: Why, then I must find it and join it. Did you call the Devil last night? Evidently the time came in New England when the repressions of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangers against which the order was organized. He was never, to my knowledge, officially scoffed at for this, the reason being that the university officials, like most of us, are the children of a history which still sucks at the Devils teats. Hale: Why are you concealing? Proctor: I have a crop to sow and lumber to drag home. A psalm is heard being sung below. Parris: Mr. Corey, you will look far for a man of my kind at sixty pound a year! Hale, holding up his hands: No, no. Proctor: Can you speak one minute without we land in Hell again? Tell him whats happened here! I love her dearly. And that is all. The words going up to Jesus are heard in the psalm and Betty claps her ears suddenly and whines loudly. 38 The Crucible Proctor goes. She stares up into his face, Perhaps another person in the village? Abigail, in a temper: My name is good in the village! I have come to help you, dear. Since Proctors entrance, Abigail has stood as though on tiptoe, absorbing his presence, wide-eyed. Dramatic purposes have sometimes required many characters to be fused into one; the number of girls involved in the crying-out has been reduced; Abigails age has been raised; while there were several judges of almost equal authority, I have symbolized them all in Hathorne and Danforth. Act One 5 persons, and to present them to the magistrates, whereby they may be accordingly proceeded against. This predilection for minding other peoples business was time- honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the sus-picions which were to feed the coming madness. Susanna Wallcott's here from Dr . Putnam: Man, be quiet now! As with every other public cause in which he tried to force his way, he failed in this. What did you do with her in the forest? Parris: Do you know this gentleman? Characters Reverend Parris Abigail Williams Mary Warren Betty John Proctor Thomas Putnam Mrs. Putnam Rebecca Nurse Reverend Hale Tituba. Mary Warren: Whatll we do? Parris: No - no. Hale: What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? Thank You for Arguing Full Text link Everyday Use chapter 1 Full Text, non-printable link Everything Is An Argument chapter 1 The Structure of Argument chapter 1 Foundations of Synthesis They Say, I Say full text link From Inquiry to Academic Writing Chapter 7: From Summarizing to Documenting Sources Articles for Annotation Putnam: There be children dyin in the village, Mister! Hale, holding up his hands: No, no. Their creed forbade anything re-sembling a theater or vain enjoyment. They did not celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer. Betty: Ill fly to Mama. When a new farmhouse was built, friends assembled to raise the roof, and there would be special foods cooked and probably some potent cider passed around. Abigail: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think The times, to their eyes, must have been out of joint, and to the common folk must have seemed as insoluble and complicated as do ours today. Devil were early linked, and so they continued to be in Salem, and are today. 38 The Crucible Proctor goes. I have seen you since she put me out; I have seen you nights. The door opens, and his Negro slave enters. and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us. He regarded them as 3 As we have seen, Thomas Putnams man for the Salem min-istry was Bayley. Parris, to Abigail: Then you were conjuring spirits last night. I would pray a while alone. She suddenly cannot bear to hear the Lords - Giles Corey, eighty-three, enters. Oh, my God! Rebecca, with great pain, turns her face away. Do you understand that? Hale: We shall need hard study if it comes to tracking down the Old Boy. Giles: You are allowed six pound a year to buy your wood, Mr. Parris. And I thought I saw - someone naked running through the trees! Act One 45 Hale: Then you saw him! Shes improved a little, I think - she give a powerful sneeze before. He pleads: Abigail, if you know something that may help the doctor, for Gods sake tell it to me. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. Normally the actions and deeds of a man were all that society felt com-fortable in judging, The secret intent of an action was left to the ministers, priests, and rabbis to deal with. Old Giles must be spoken for, if only because his fate was to be so remarkable and so different from that of all the others. I know that you - you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disastrous a charge laid upon me. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. She clutches him desperately. In history he cut a villainous path, and there is very little good to be said for him. I will not, I cannot! However, Francis had originally rented the land, and one theory has it that, as he gradually paid for it and raised hi: social status, there were those who resented his rise. Miller studied the court records of the trials to gain insight into his characters . It suddenly became possible - and patriotic and holy - for a man to say that Martha Corey had come into his bedroom at night, and that, while his wife was sleeping at his side, Martha laid herself down on his chest and nearly suffocated him. Of course it was her spirit only, but his satisfaction at confessing himself was no lighter than if it had been Martha herself. To Parris: I hope you are not decided to go in search of loose spirits, Mr. Parris. EN. And what more? ABIGAIL, with alarm, as she cautiously approaches Betty: What ails you, Betty? TiTUBA: Why you say that, Abby? Parris brought her with him from Barbados, where he spent some years as a merchant before entering the ministry. Relevance; Rating; Price (Ascending) Most Recent; View: Filter. Click to access 21078735-The-Crucible-Arthur-Miller-2hmdzot.pdf. His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert. Parris: Child. Act One 7 developed from a paradox. A candle still burns near the bed, which is at the right. The Crucible Full Text The Crucible Audiobook: The Crucible- Act I: File Size: 1835 kb: File Type: pdf: . I tell him I dont desire to work for him, sir. University University of South Australia; Course English Education 1 (EDUC 4035) . Rebecca: Perhaps she is not hungered yet. Girl, what ails you? Parris: No, no, these are farmers. Coming into Salem now, Reverend Hale conceives of himself much as a young doctor on his first call. Hale stands embarrassed for an instant. We have all heard of your great charities in Beverly. Elizabeth goes upstairs. He glances at her, then goes to Betty on the bed. Pause. WHEN RAIN Clouds Gather - Summary-1 . Shaking Betty: Betty, wake up. I do not wish to be put out like the cat whenever some majority feels the whim. But this is a snobbish objection and not at all warranted by the facts. She beg me make charm - Abigail: Dont lie! What a grand peeping courage you have! So speak utterly, Tituba, turn your back on him and face God - face God, Tituba, and God will protect you. She dissolves into sobs. Tituba: I dont know, sir, but the Devil got him numerous witches. For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. The Church, sharp-eyed as it must be when gods long dead are brought to life, condemned these orgies as witchcraft and interpreted them, rightly, as a resurgence of the Dionysiac forces it had crushed long before. 28 The Crucible PuTNAM: I am sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting? Noticing Rebecca: You cannot be Rebecca Nurse? Parris: It is agreed, sir - it is agreed - we will abide by your judgment. Hale, with rising exaltation: You are Gods instrument put in our hands to discover the Devils agents among us. Proctor: I seen none dyin.
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