Q4 Final Project

Jirachaya Mahatongkum 1206 English 12 April 5, 2019 The truth

Danforth: Come here, woman. Elizabeth comes to him, glanc-ing at Proctor's back. Look at me only, not at your husband. In my eyes only.

Elizabeth, gently: Aye, sir.

Danforth: Someone told us that once you actually chased Abigail. Is it true?

Elizabeth: That is true, sir.

Danforth: Then, what was the reason for dismissing her? Elizabeth gets stuck and tries to look sideways at Proctor. Look at me! Look in my eyes only! The answer is not in your husband face. You need to answer by yourself from your memory and you need no help. Answer me! Why did you banish Abigail?

Elizabeth, knowing what to say, she responded with her confidence: She dissatisfied me.

Danforth: In what way dissatisfied you? Was she slovenly? Lazy? What disturbance did she cause?

Elizabeth: Your Honor, actually my husband is a good man. He usually has morals and he is a hard worker. He always takes care of me. And - he never drunk - and doesn’t addict to games such as shovelboard as others. Once after I gave birth to my last child, I was very sick for a long time. I began to notice that my husband was not attend me as same as before but for this girl he - ​She stares at Abigail.

Danforth: Stop looking at other people, look at me only.

Elizabeth: Sorry, sir.

Danforth: What wrong with Proctor and Abigail?

Elizabeth: I thought that my husband starts to get obsessed with Abigail. I felt very worried. Thus, that day I accepted that I had no consciousness with myself.

Danforth: Your husband - did he indeed turn from you?

Elizabeth, in torment: Aye, sir. My husband is a goody man, but he truly turns from me.

Danforth: Then he really turns from you.

Elizabeth, starting to look down to the ground: that is true, sir.

Danforth, call Elizabeth for her consciousness: Listen carefully and look at me! Did your husband Proctor has an affair with Abigail? Is your husband a lecher? Elizabeth pauses and stands silently. Tell the truth!

Elizabeth, faintly and glances at Proctor: I think yes, sir.

Danforth: They said the same.

Proctor, jubilant: I told you! She never lied.

Danforth: She has spoken. Remove her for a while.

Proctor, shouting out: Elizabeth, you are such a good wife!

Elizabeth, sadden. She walks out of the court silently. The door closes behind her.

Proctor: So now, you know all the thing that Elizabeth said are the truth. Abigail lied. He glances at Abigail.

Hale: Excellency, Abigail is a lair. He pointed at Abigail. We need to talk. I beg you to confess it before another is condemned!

Abigail, scurry: I’m not a lair!

Danforth: She lied. Take her to the prison and later investigated her.

Hale: I really didn’t think wrong. I believe Proctor! He pointing at Abigail. She always makes me go astray! - Abigail starts to act weird; she screams, crying and looks up to the ceiling.

Abigail: Off with you! Off with you! Don’t touch me.

Danforth: What is it, Abigail? What will you lie next? Please stop, I don’t want to give you another condemn. - Abigail cries more loudly while looking at the ceiling. Moreover, the girls are doing the same thing as same as Abigail - and now Hathorne, Hale, Putnam, Cheever, Herrick, and Danforth do the same. What are you looking up there?

Mercy Lewis, pointing: It’s on the beam! Behind the rafters

Danforth, looking up and confused: Where! I see nothing.

Abigail: Oh my - god! She gulps. A bird. That’s a yellow bird.

Proctor: Wh-at! Nothing there!

Abigail, to the ceiling: Don’t! Don’t come to me!

Proctor: Mr. Hale -

Danforth: I beg you! Stop it, Abigail before receiving another condemn.

Proctor, to Hale: Do you see a bird?

Danforth: No bird here! She lied. He stared at Abigail.

Elizabeth and her twisted character

I chose a key scene when John Proctor go to fight for Elizabeth in the court because Elizabeth was accused of being a witch. To explain this, when Mary Warren (her servant) stays in the court next to Abigail; she sewed a doll. Then, when she returns back home, she gives the doll to Elizabeth as a gift. After that, at night, in Parris’s house, Abigail Williams falls to the floor and screamed; Parris goes to save her and then he saw 2 inches needle stuck in her belly. According to the quote below

Cheever, wide-eyed, trembling: The girl, the Williams girl, Abi-gail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she - to Proctor now - testify it -were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.

After that, Elizabeth was accused in the court by Abigail because she wants to take her place as John’s Proctor wife. Then, Ezekiel Cheever and Marshal Herrick have a warrant to arrest Elizabeth because they find the needle stuck in the doll that Mary gave her which is linked to the event that occurred with Abigail since she was stabbed by the needle in her belly as same as the doll. Thus, Abigail accused Elizabeth’s spirit. Moreover, John Proctor tries to save his wife from being executed; He forced Mary Warren to tells the truth in the court but she afraid of the consequences and does not think she can do it. In addition, Mary said that she stuck the needle by herself in the court when Abigail sat next to her. Next, Proctor just wants to free his

wife even she will be executed after she delivers her baby (she is pregnant), so he claimed that Elizabeth is not a lair. She always speaks the truth. According to the text

Proctor: In her life, sir, she has never lied. There are them that cannot sing, and them that cannot weep - my wife cannot lie. I have paid much to learn it, sir.

After that, Elizabeth comes into the court and was investigated. She speaks the whole truth until Danforth asks about the relationship between John Procter and Abigail. Elizabeth decides to lie that her husband is not a lecher even though in the past, she never lies. Elizabeth lied in the court because she just wants to save her husband from his erroneousness that she knew it which is has sex with the girl under 18 years old named Abigail. Nevertheless, Proctor had already confessed in the court and claimed that Elizabeth will not lie. Thus, the words that Elizabeth and Proctor said did not match. Next, Danforth forces Proctor to confess his allegiance to Hell because Mary accused Proctor as a devil after Danforth threatens her to confess or she will be hang. Furthermore, Proctor then condemns himself as a devil and accuses Danforth is a devil too; Thus, Proctor was arrested by the mandate of Danforth.

On the contrary, after I change the character in the novel all the story changed. To clarify this, I made a decision to convert Elizabeth’s character in the scene that I explained above. I have an idea to change Elizabeth’s character from a person who's always loyal to her husband, even she needs to lying, vulnerable, and sympathetic to be a person who usually adheres to the principles of truth although sometimes the truth may make something worse, honest, callous, and bleak. In the scene that Elizabeth was brought in the court to investigate

to prove that her husband (Proctor) did not lie: if they say the same. In the original story, Elizabeth lied to save her husband, but I change Elizabeth to tell the truth regarding whether Proctor and Abigail had an affair. Thus, this makes the story after this part was changed because Danforth believes that Proctor and Elizabeth are not a lair. Notwithstanding, Proctor was executed because he had an affair with Abigail. After this, Abigail was investigated regarding the needle that stuck in both doll and her belly because Elizabeth told that she never own any doll since she was young; this doll Mary gave her. Now, Elizabeth is in the safe zone, so Mary turns to support her instead of Abigail. Consequently, Elizabeth frees from being seen as a witch and was executed. Nevertheless, Abigail continues to accuse others such as Tituba. In the end, all girls whose stay in the forest that night were executed on charges of causing chosen Salem and lying to cause loss.

Furthermore, I edit and add some narrative in it to create sad tones such as a scene that Elizabeth tell the truth about the relationship between Abigail and Proctor

Danforth reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To your own knowledge, has 1n a crisis of indecision she cannot speak, Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!

Elizabeth, faintly and glances at Proctor: I think yes, sir.

Elizabeth, sadden. She walks out of the court silently. The door closes behind her.

The reasons I chose to change this scene are I want to change the end to be Abigail receive the karma, and a good person such as Elizabeth can escape from the accusation. I want to

convey to the readers that lying is a bad habit; it never helps anything to be better, but worse; Even though you are lying because you have good wishes, but at the end, the truth is the truth.