In Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, chapters six, seven and “words” hold many important events. First, Sarny learns the letter “H” from John after he has been fatigued in bed. John then decides he is going to run away from the plantation, which is when Mammy goes into a deeper conversation with John about each other. Later, John is able to successfully get away from the plantation using shoes scented with pepper to throw the dogs off his trail. Transitioning into the fall, Sarny starts to be miserable as she is now old enough to become a breeder, something that she has blatantly stated she does not want to do.…
During open court after Elizabeth had been arrested for witchcraft, John confesses to the act of adultery. His marriage to Elizabeth is nothing short of being bleak and downright awkward. There is no trust. Elizabeth confesses to John that “suspicion kissed you when I did”. Until in (Act 3, line 830) when John goes…
Buy the time we had gotten to her, she was in a full-blown anxiety attack. I was screaming in my head, get her to sit down and someone has to get Matt! When we finally sat her down a stagehand came up to us and reported that they found the doll and had put it in it's place. I saw that he had a headset and before I had comprehended it Abby was almost yelling, "Can you please get Matt and tell him a dancer is having a Panic attack right now!" I had realized by the time Matt had reached us, the ballet had started and we almost had to go on. Matt was on the floor embracing Jadyn, who by now was bawling her eyes…
The healing scene really summed up why Deborah was always paranoid and a bit crazy…
Our first change takes place before the story even started. John had loved Elizabeth and still does- or so he says, but if he loved her so much why would he cheat on her? Well with every affair somebody finds out eventually, and Elizabeth did. She did forgive him and they didn’t speak a word of it out in public. Every day John does all that he can to earn back her trust and to make her happy again. Elizabeth refuses to give him the chance because she knows he still likes his mistress, Abby, even though he doesn’t think he does. Elizabeth knows that Abby accused her of being a witch in court because she wants her dead so she can have John all to herself. This is the reason Elizabeth tells John to go to court and get Mary to tell them they were…
Elizabeth still wants to believe she is living a perfect life. In Act III (page 113) Elizabeth states, “My husband is a good and righteous man. He is never drunk as some are, nor wastin' his time at the shovelboard, but always his work.” Abigail still loves John and wants Elizabeth out of the picture. This is shown when Elizabeth says, “She wants me dead, John, you know it!” (Act II page 60). She even sets up Elizabeth to be…
In Act 2 Scene 2, 2 the main characters are john Proctor and Abigail Williams. They meet in the woods at night, with Abigail wrapped with her nightgown, and Proctor with his lantern raised. As they got over the awkwardness and silence, john pleads with abigail to withdraw the accusations she made. Abigail makes it quite clear that she is irrational as she clings to a belief that the accusations were true and that after everything, that they will get married. The first reason that this scene was cut is because without this scene, the accusations appear to be undetermined whether they were accurate or not. However, if this scene was part of the play, the readers would know that the accusations would be no doubt, fictitious, something Abigail just made up. The second reason is the portrayal of Abigail in this scene. Abigail was portrayed in the first scene as “a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan with an endless capacity for dissebling.” (pg 8) But in Act 2 Scene 2 Miller was portrayed as bewildered and even delusional as she states that it was true that many people such as George Jacobs, who was in jail at that time, and Elizabeth Proctor had tried to harm her by inflicting pain upon her with needles and pins. “The jab your wife gave’s me haven’t healed yet y’know.” (pg 149)Though, it is suspected by the readers, and backed with evidence that the stories were fabricated by Abigail so as to achieve her goal. The third and last reason, though similar to second, is a very important point. As stated already, Abigail was first introduced by the play as a deceitful and scheming little girl and this is also how she is presented throughout the novel. Though in spite of that, in the scene miller cut out, Abigail is portrayed as innocent, somewhat sweet and caring. She claims and reasons that the townspeople are hypocrites and have hoped that she’d be thrown in jail. She then exclaims “oh, it will need god…
Through Act 1, Abigail changes her character a number of times. We, as readers, never get to know her true character. In the beginning of the act she is almost portrayed as innocent, presented with "worry", "apprehension" and "propriety", shown in her stage directions such as "quavering as she sits". From this moment in time, the audience are unsure whether she is genuinely caring for her niece Betty or if she is diguising her true self with a selfless cover up. We learn from her dispute with Parris that she had been found dancing in the woods with…
Throughout the story, John expresses qualities of an honest man by defending his wife Elizabeth when she is accused of hurting Abigail. John defends Elizabeth” Herrick! Herrick don’t chain her” (page 177: Proctor) in many ways despite the hardship they have been going through with their marriage. With tension between the two because of John’s affair with Abigail, Elizabeth and John have been falling apart. However, in some divine way, John forfeits his good name when he tells the court of his affair. In doing so, John has lost what makes him honorable, but Elizabeth seeing this has brought new perspective upon her relationship with her husband. She forgave him. John doing the unimaginable to seek his wife’s forgiveness is a true example of a dynamic change throughout the story.…
Abigail has many roles and characteristics in this play but in Act I; she played as a cousin who is very disobedient not only, but also a mistress that is naïve. During Act I Abigail lies rather than telling the truth. The first lies come within the first few lines. Particularly when she lies about what they had done in the forest and tries to cover it up by adding lies on top of…
At the end of the play when John was about to get hanged, Danforth (one of the judge) asks him that, “Did you see any one with the devil? John says, “No”. This shows that John is not accusing any one else like Abigail did, even though he knew that he will be hanged. As a result he was hanged but saved other innocent people’s lives. At the start of the play he was an innocent, hard worker, kind and prestigious man but as the play opens up people’s view for John changes from good to evil person when Mary warren and Abigail accuses him for compacting with the devil and he shouts “God is Dead” (ACT III Pg:105). But by the end of the play he again becomes evil to good because he saves other people’s lives and…
Act I Briefly summarize the key events in this act. In Act 1, we open with a dialogue between three men- Marcellus, Bernardo and Horatio. They are visited by a ghost, who is later verified by Horatio to in fact be the recently deceased King Hamlet. Next, we are introduced to Claudius, the new king since the death of King Hamlet, marrying into an incestuous relationship of King Hamlet’s past wife, Gertrude. He decides to keep Hamlet, our protagonist, in Denmark, not allowing him to leave the country due to his grief. In the next scene, we are introduced to Ophelia, Polonius and Laertes, the latter being shipped off to France and the father, Polonius, giving advice. The two also give advice to the daughter, Ophelia, as it is revealed that she has a relationship with Hamlet, the two warn her that this is an unwise decision. The final scene begins on the Castle platform, where King Hamlet reveals himself to his son Hamlet and Horatio. Hamlet follows his father and learns that his death was by murder, at the hands of Claudius. Hamlet is instructed to avenge his father, and he vows to do so.…
Arthur Miller used a lot of details when writing the Act II Scene ii. This would have led the readers with too much information that would give away the end of the play. The conversation between John Proctor and Abigail Williams tells the audience what their plans and motives are for the future. John ends up telling Abigail that he was going confess the affair and prove to the court that she was faking the whole thing and that she needed to tell them that Elizabeth was innocent and she knew about the needle in the poppet and that she had been lying all along. “Abigail: What will you tell? You will confess to fornication? In the court? Proctor: If you will have it so, so I will tell it!" (p. 158). If Miller had let this scene in the Act when John had confessed it would have not made such an impact on Abigail as it did because if she had know he would have confessed she would have come up with a lie to protect herself from it. Proctor also threatens Abigail to tell the court how it is all a bunch of lies and she has never really seen any spirits, “Proctor: You will tell the court you are blind to spirits; you…
The protagonist, John Proctor, has before the opening if the play had and ended an affair with the Antagonist, Abigail Williams. In this telling of the beginning of the witch trials, it is Abigails desire for revenge that leads the girls into the woods to perform a magic spell against Johns wife Elizabeth. It is dialogue between Abigail and John, and later dialogue of the confession of some of the girls, which reveals the affair between them and Abigails deep desire to have John back at any cost. John is attempting to right his wrong in the affair between himself and Abigail, but spurning her only causes more tension. When Abigail cannot easily win john back, and faces punishment for her actions in the woods, she turns the towns fear of witchcraft and the girls hysteria into her own device for revenge, at any cost. The playwright reveals the depth of his characters; Abigails ruthlessness, Johns remorse, and Elizabeths faith, through dialogue. Parentheticals within the text reveal tone and motivation behind simple words said, from emotion words such as enraged to the simple act of a…
Act I: The first act of the play begins in the upstairs bedroom of Reverend Samuel Parris’ home. He is kneeling in prayer at the side of his bedridden daughter, Betty, when the curtain open. Reverend Parris’ slave from Barbados, Tituba, enters the room, concerned about Betty's well being, but Parris makes her leave. Reverend Parris’ niece, Abigail Williams, then enters the room, along with Susanna Walcott. Susanna tells Reverend Parris that Dr. Griggs was unable to find a cure for Betty's illness. Reverend Parris then explains that he has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly to look for any sign of supernatural causes for Betty's illness, but he tells Susanna not to saying anything about it to anyone. Abigail then tells Reverend Parris that there are rumors of witchcraft and that the…