Today after wrestling with John's conscience for a long time, he agrees to confess. Hathorne and Danforth are overjoyed and Cheever gets a paper, pen to write the confession. John asks why it has to be written. Danforth informs him that it will be hung on the church door. The men bring Rebecca to witness his confession, hoping that she will follow his example. The sight of Rebecca shames John. He offers his confession, and Danforth asks him if he ever saw Rebecca Nurse in the devil’s company. John states that he did not. Danforth reads the names of the condemned out loud and asks if he ever saw any of them with the devil. John again replies in the negative. Danforth pressures him to name other guilty parties, but he declares that he will speak only about his own sins.
John then hesitates to sign the confession, saying that it is enough that the men have witnessed him admitting his alleged crimes. John signs his name, but snatches the sheet from Danforth. He demands the confession as proof to the village of John’s witchcraft. Although he refuses to allow him to nail the paper with his name on the church door and tears the confession in two and renounces it. Herrick leads the seven condemned prisoners, including John, to the gallows. Hale and Parris plead with Elizabeth to remonstrate with Proctor, but she refuses to sway him from doing what he believes is right. John is then hanged just he went for good reason, but I am hurt that he chose them instead of me.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Journal Entry 4
Today John Proctor cries out that he confessed his sin, but it is too late for Elizabeth to change her story. The girls and I begin screaming that Mary is sending her spirit at us. The room turns into a frenzy of fear, excitement, and confusion. Mary seems to become infected with the hysteria of the all of us and starts screaming too. Proctor tries to touch me, but I started to dash away from him, calling him the devil’s man. I accuse him of consorting with the devil and pressuring me to join him in his evil ways. Danforth then orders Proctor’s arrest
. That fall Parris reports that Mercy and I have disappeared from Salem after robbing him. Hale has not talked to Proctor at all yet. Danforth hopes that Elizabeth can convince John to confess. Elizabeth agrees to speak with Proctor, but she makes no promises. Everyone leaves the room to allow Elizabeth and Proctor privacy. Elizabeth tells Proctor that almost one hundred people have confessed to witchcraft.
Elizabeth tells informs John that Giles was killed by being pressed to death, though he never pleaded guilty or not guilty to the charges against him. She told him that had he denied the charges, the court would have hanged him, and he would have had to give away his property. He decided not to enter a plea, so that his farm would fall to his sons. In order to force him to enter a plea, the court tortured him on the press, the weight on his chest eventually became so great that it crushed him. His last words were “more weight.”
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
. That fall Parris reports that Mercy and I have disappeared from Salem after robbing him. Hale has not talked to Proctor at all yet. Danforth hopes that Elizabeth can convince John to confess. Elizabeth agrees to speak with Proctor, but she makes no promises. Everyone leaves the room to allow Elizabeth and Proctor privacy. Elizabeth tells Proctor that almost one hundred people have confessed to witchcraft.
Elizabeth tells informs John that Giles was killed by being pressed to death, though he never pleaded guilty or not guilty to the charges against him. She told him that had he denied the charges, the court would have hanged him, and he would have had to give away his property. He decided not to enter a plea, so that his farm would fall to his sons. In order to force him to enter a plea, the court tortured him on the press, the weight on his chest eventually became so great that it crushed him. His last words were “more weight.”
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
Journal Entry 3
Today is the first full day that Elizabeth has been in jail and Proctor is still trying to get her out. He has ripped up her arrest warrant and is going crazy just to try and free her. I do not know why he does not just leave her there she is worthless, he could have me. Instead he continues to stay, then they tell him that she is pregnant and he can not believe it. So know she will not be hanged until the baby is delivered.
Putnam is brought into a room to answer allegations by Giles that he prompted his daughter to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft. Giles refuses to give the name of the man who gave him the information because he has a right to his privacy. So Giles is arrested for contempt of court. Then Danforth sends for me and my troops of girls. I deny Mary's testimony, and her explanation of the doll in the house.
Proctor leaps in and calls me a whore. He confesses his affair with me and explains that Elizabeth fired me when she discovered it. He then claims that I wanted Elizabeth to hang so that I could take her place in his home. Although he is not wrong I am not going to agree with that and get in trouble. Then they bring Elizabeth in the room and she claims to have gotten the mistaken notion that Proctor fancied me, so she lost her temper and fired me without a true cause.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
Putnam is brought into a room to answer allegations by Giles that he prompted his daughter to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft. Giles refuses to give the name of the man who gave him the information because he has a right to his privacy. So Giles is arrested for contempt of court. Then Danforth sends for me and my troops of girls. I deny Mary's testimony, and her explanation of the doll in the house.
Proctor leaps in and calls me a whore. He confesses his affair with me and explains that Elizabeth fired me when she discovered it. He then claims that I wanted Elizabeth to hang so that I could take her place in his home. Although he is not wrong I am not going to agree with that and get in trouble. Then they bring Elizabeth in the room and she claims to have gotten the mistaken notion that Proctor fancied me, so she lost her temper and fired me without a true cause.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
Journal Entry 2
Today Parris did not fully believe me when I told him we only danced in the woods. Elizabeth is pushing him to testify and say it is a sham, but he is not curtain since that is what Abigail keeps telling him. Elizabeth starts to get upset with John when she finds out that we were alone together. When Proctor starts to demand that she not judge him, that is all she begins to do. I can tell that he is not honest and open with her anymore. Although that is because he is with me so therefore he is honest and open to only me. Well we used to be but now he says he does not want to be with me anymore which is crazy, because I know the true feelings he has for me that he just can not admit yet.
I have a plan and so me and Mary Warren get together. Once the plan is finalized I tell her she has to go over and deliver the poppet to Elizabeth Proctor. When she gets it she does not think anything of it but just as a nice gift, but little does she know that, that small doll is going to ruin her whole life. The police come and find the poppet along with a needle in its stomach right where I have stabbed myself. Elizabeth is then arrested and taken away for "witchcraft", but really I am just setting her all up. John then got to her defiance, but it is not use they have the evidence they need to convict her.
After Mary try's to back out and tell the truth I have to inform her the consequences. If she so happens to just think about turning me in it will be the last thing she does. I tell her that if she tells the court that the poppet belongs to her that I will kill her, so she agrees that she will keep quiet. Unfortunately John knows that I told Mary about our affair and I am upset that she would have let him know that she knows about it. Everyone will get what they disserve in the end and Elizabeth's life was just the first thing to go.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
I have a plan and so me and Mary Warren get together. Once the plan is finalized I tell her she has to go over and deliver the poppet to Elizabeth Proctor. When she gets it she does not think anything of it but just as a nice gift, but little does she know that, that small doll is going to ruin her whole life. The police come and find the poppet along with a needle in its stomach right where I have stabbed myself. Elizabeth is then arrested and taken away for "witchcraft", but really I am just setting her all up. John then got to her defiance, but it is not use they have the evidence they need to convict her.
After Mary try's to back out and tell the truth I have to inform her the consequences. If she so happens to just think about turning me in it will be the last thing she does. I tell her that if she tells the court that the poppet belongs to her that I will kill her, so she agrees that she will keep quiet. Unfortunately John knows that I told Mary about our affair and I am upset that she would have let him know that she knows about it. Everyone will get what they disserve in the end and Elizabeth's life was just the first thing to go.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
Journal Entry 1
Today was a very crazy day, Betty would not waken from her sleep. Parris kept asking me about what was going on out in the woods but I did not tell him anything except that we were only dancing. He told me that he heard her singing so I told him that you just were singing. Parris suspects that something is going on, after he saw one of the girls dancing around naked. Ruth Putnam later tells Parris she saw her fly over the neighbor barn, but I explained to him that, that is not true.
I begin to talk to Mercy Lewis, as Marry Warren enters the room with fright. Next thing I know Betty suddenly begins to sit up and cry out for her mother. I tell the girls that I told Parris everything and then the next thing I know Betty starts to talk. She is telling them that I did not tell him about drinking blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. So I explain to them that they can not tell Parris anything about that night except that we all were dancing in the woods. I told them to say that Tituba was the one who was conjuring spirits that were in fact Ruth's dead sisters.
Later John Proctor begins to come to talk to me, I begin to proclaim my love for him and he shuts me down. I do not know what has gotten into his mind because I know the feelings he has for me. I believe Elizabeth his wife is trying to keep us apart I suspect she probably has gotten the hint that we are seeing each other. Although I do not care all I want is for John to be with me and if that means I have to get her out of the way then I just might have to do that. I begin to bet Proctor to stay with me, but he will not listen. I begin to shout out that I know he loves me and he continues to tell me to just put those memories out of my head, but I just can not do that.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
I begin to talk to Mercy Lewis, as Marry Warren enters the room with fright. Next thing I know Betty suddenly begins to sit up and cry out for her mother. I tell the girls that I told Parris everything and then the next thing I know Betty starts to talk. She is telling them that I did not tell him about drinking blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. So I explain to them that they can not tell Parris anything about that night except that we all were dancing in the woods. I told them to say that Tituba was the one who was conjuring spirits that were in fact Ruth's dead sisters.
Later John Proctor begins to come to talk to me, I begin to proclaim my love for him and he shuts me down. I do not know what has gotten into his mind because I know the feelings he has for me. I believe Elizabeth his wife is trying to keep us apart I suspect she probably has gotten the hint that we are seeing each other. Although I do not care all I want is for John to be with me and if that means I have to get her out of the way then I just might have to do that. I begin to bet Proctor to stay with me, but he will not listen. I begin to shout out that I know he loves me and he continues to tell me to just put those memories out of my head, but I just can not do that.
Until next time,
Abigail Williams
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