niomthings.blogg.se - august 2023

Abigail and the Reverend tell Susanna to go home but not to spread these kinds of rumors in the village.

He thinks there might be an “unnatural cause” to the illness, but Reverend Parris denies this possibility.

Susanna tells the Reverend that Doctor Griggs can find no cure for Betty’s sickness.

(Click the summary infographic to download.) The door opens and seventeen-year-old Abigail Williams, the Reverend’s niece, announces the arrival of Susanna Walcott. They exchange brief words, as Tituba asks if Betty is getting better, but the Reverend tells her to get out of his sight. Reverend Parris is weeping and praying over his daughter Betty’s bed.

The first scene opens as Tituba, the Rev.

And all while sounding righteous and religious!

The Salem Witch Trials were an opportunity for neighbors to vent against neighbors, to publicly air long-standing jealousy, to accuse those they disliked. But by 1692 much that was good about the Puritans, the narrator suggests, has been lost to history.

Because the Puritans sought a community, they managed to survive. The town saw itself as persecuted, a legacy of the persecution Puritans faced in the Old World (Europe).The narrator describes Salem as a new town with a strict Puritan way of life, its outlook on the rest of the world one of “parochial snobbery”-in other words, small-town small-mindedness.The narrator describes Reverend Parris as a suspicious man in his mid-forties, one who often imagines that the world is against him. The scene opens in Reverend Parris’s house, in a small upstairs bedroom, in the year 1692.