Dialectical Journal For The Crucible

I choose prompt 6. The three chapters of this book are arguably the climax of this book because Alfie went to the hospital and learned that this hospital is used for people with shell shock. The next day, Alfie was shining the shoes of the prime minister and, while not being seen overheard his conversation between him and his mother. He heard that his mom knows that his dad is in the hospital and would not tell him. After knowing this Alfie decided to bring his dad back home. Before doing this he had to let someone know about his plan, so he told his dad's old friend Joe. Joe is a conscious objector who went to jail got beaten up and still refused to fight in the war. He did this because his old man was a violent one and Joe swore to never

Page 25 begins with the girls (Abigail and her friends) murmuring and discussing the possible consequences of participating in witchcraft. The girls had been caught dancing in the woods by Rev Parris, and due to that, two girls have entered a sleeping comma in fear of punishment. In order to awake, Betty (one of the girls in the sleeping comma) Abigail tells a lie that she has discussed her actions in the woods with Rev Parris and that everything is ok. This immediately startles her and wakes immediately. The girls continue to discuss that they had no involvement in this tretury, and start to point out that Abigail “drank the blood, you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife”.

Chapter 5: Paul explains about how unsanitary the camps are, explaining that he and his friends had gotten louses (lice) in their head, and they try to attempt to get it off. Haie tries to cheer up the rest of the soldiers by telling them that he might have got the lice from the hospital, but he is the one who laugh the most, for 30 minutes straight. After trying to get the lice off themselves, they hear that Himmelstoss got in trouble for harassing the soldiers, and the magistrate’s son caught him in the action. Hearing the news that Himmelstoss got in trouble for his wrongdoings, Paul and the rest of the group start planning out what they should do or say to Himmelstoss when he comes back to the camp. When talking about what they should do

Evanlyn and Will have been captured and sold off as slaves. As time goes on, Halt and Horace travel across Gallica, defeating knights, and ridding Gallica of the evil Deparnieux. 1- “But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' said Halt. ' Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace… The Ranger gave him a withering look. ' Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.

Abigail starts to accuse several people in Salem soon after Tituba in a desperate ploy to get attention, that soon gets blown out of proportion and becomes a massacre of innocent people.

1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).

The purpose of this chapter is to give sort of a background to the novel. It introduces Salem as well as Puritan society and the Custom house. The author's attitude toward his old job and workers is mainly positive, giving descriptions of the groups and people. He puts them in either a mundane or positive light by showing their qualities even if they are strange. An example of this is his description of the General's overwhelming kindness or the President's love of past meals (Hawthorne, 284). Even though they are seen as positive, the author still shows they no longer belong at the Custom house. He states " [they knew] they ought to have given place to younger men" (Hawthorne, 280). He sees them generally as senile and unfit for their jobs, but still as people. Because the author address

“They did not celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer.” Act 1, pg. 4

Light rose over the hills in the east striking the tin sheet on the Derns’ tent oddly. Light that meant a new day of hard work to match the sadness of the evening last.

She is sent into a spiral of confusion for her lust of John Proctor and is sent by her beast to do irrational thinking and send out a spell asked of by Abigail to Tituba who's is the creator of the demons within herself and others. The actions to come from Abigail will not only get her sent out of the Proctor house but only swirl like a hurricane and suck others into the eye to grab there attention and escalate the true happenings of false accusations to behold the uncertainty of others in the village. Although Abigail did go to face her demon John himself but had failed to overcome her most desired need of him to be with her she did not have the strength inside her to overcome the fear of rejection in the end which lead her to think irrationally when this demon walks in her body like a devils play ground to do as he pleases so she may have her most desired possession. No matter what the demon wants what it wants so she lies and proclaims false hoods on her fellow citizens and obtains followers to fall to her own cult which these demon uses to its advantage to cause the deaths of many citizens to gets it way. Although Abigail is still within the demon has taken control her worst fear has happened proctor no longer wants her so the demons reign has ended. She runs from the false hoods that

“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.” – Oswald Chambers

The high court and the girls become consumed in their newfound power. They have reversed the order of the village and they are now above the men, women, adults and parents and they have total control of the church. So it is quite evident why they got carried away.

Later on Hale asks Abigail if they were conjuring spirits, she then says that it was all Tituba's doing. Hale finds Tituba and asks her a serious of questions, and Tituba denies all of them. This puts Hale at a crossroad, Abigail later continues to blame Tituba and says that she was forced to drink blood. Tituba responds with saying that Abigail basically forced her into conjuring spirits in the wood. Again, Hale is at a crossroad, not knowing what side to take. In an attempt to save herself from the punishment for witchcraft, Abigail begins to name all of the girls that are supposedly witnesses, her actions officially spark the trials. Reverend Parris sends for the Marshal to help get this resolved.

First, Abigail is responsible for the convictions because she is the master manipulator and knows how to take advantage of the people around her. When Betty becomes ill the girls and Abigail are questioned about what they were doing in the woods in order to not get in trouble Abigail tells Rev. Hale that Tituba was conjuring spirits. In an effort to put all the blame on Tituba to stay out

So, after the news that Abigail and the other girls’ outlandish actions begins to spread like a wildfire, the hysteria in the community take over. Abigail only contributes to the hysteria by telling lie after lie just to cover up her wrongdoings. Abigail is dreading telling the truth, which has triggered hysteria to a dangerous level that otherwise, would not have been achieved.