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“Characters.” The Crucible, thecrucibleandliterarycriticism.weebly.com/characters.html.

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Curiosity Stimulators

Vestry Room- Salem Meeting Hall ~ Elizabeth Proctor was accused of being a witch and is out of jail?  She did not break out using witch craft instead she was let out. But why?  We recently came into knowledge that Elizabeth claimed to be pregnant.

Deputy Governor Danforth told Mr. Proctor earlier in the court session, “Mr. Proctor, this morning, your wife send me a claim in which she states that she is pregnant now.” (Danforth 85)

“My wife pregnant!” (Proctor 85)

“There be no sign of it-we have examined her body.” (Danforth 85)

The members of the court proceed to state that she will have one month to start showing signs of pregnancy.  If not she will be killed.  Danforth also said that if she is pregnant she will have one extra year to live.

Many people in the courtroom do not believe that she is pregnant and that she is just using it as a scapegoat to give a little longer to conjure of a spell to get out of the jail.  John Proctor has some interesting words about the case at hand “In her life, sir, she have 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.” (Proctor 103)

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“Characters.” The Crucible, thecrucibleandliterarycriticism.weebly.com/characters.html.

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Brunyate, Roger. “Opera at Peabody - The Crucible.” Opera at Peabody | A Midsummer Night's Dream, www.peabodyopera.org/seasons/s1112/crucible12/.

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News Explainers

Vestry Room- Salem Meeting Hall ~ A major court case is taken place in the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts.  Peoples wives are being put in jail and people are calling each other witches based on the words of girls.

Mary Warren, servant girl to John Proctor, came in with a deposition saying the girls were pretending to be under the influences of spirits.  Judge Hawthorne interviewed Warren and said, “You say you never saw no spirits, Mary, were never threatened or afflicted by any manifest of the Devil or the Devil’s agent” (Hawthorne 98)

Mary replied, “No, sir.” (Warren 98)

The court called in Abigail Williams and the other girls to ask them if they were indeed pretending.  The girls denied what Mary Warren stated, and in a twist of events, the girls began to experience spirits.  Warren, becoming panicked, since the girls were repeating Mary’s words and seemed to be under the influence of spirits sent by Mary Warren.

The meeting room was driven to madness and Mary Warren began to accuse John Proctor the he made her spread lies.

Here is what John Proctor has to say to this “They’re pretending, Mr. Danforth! … Lies, lies” (Proctor 107)

More to come in the next edition!

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Breaking News!!

John Proctor....The Devil's Man!!

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In the latest news, John Proctor has been taken to jail for working with the Devil.  These are recent events in Salem as the townspeople have been rounded up under charges of witchcraft.  Currently, over 30 people have been arrested.

Heated discussions took place between Deputy Governor Danforth and John Proctor.  Proctor insisting that the girls are lying for their own whims.  But, his servant girl, Mary Warren stated, "You're the Devil's man!" (Warren 110)

Danforth, in his inquiry to Proctor demanded, "What are you? You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not? What say you, Mister?" (Danforth 111)
"I say - I say- God is dead! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face!...God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!" (Proctor 111)

Deputy Governor Danforth ordered John Proctor to be taken to jail.

What a twist of events in the Salem Courthouse! More on these Salem Witch-trials in tomorrow's edition.