“Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” This basically means if any of them talk about anything but the dancing then she will kill them in the black of some terrible night.
Later in Act one the audience becomes aware of the fact that Abigail Williams had an affair with John Proctor when she was working in the Proctor house.
Abigail still loves Proctor but he doesn’t love her.
In Act 3 she is even slyer as she threatens Mr. Danforth in front of the whole court by saying in an open threat: “Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Think you be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits? Beware of it!”
This means that she is sending an open threat to Mr. Danforth. This in modern day speech would basically mean if I were you I’d be watching my own back.
As you get further into Act 3 she becomes even more bloodthirsty as she says “If I must answer that I will leave and will not come back again.” To Mr. Danforth when he asks her if she denies everything that Mary and Proctor have said she has done. This means that she will quit being “gods’ finger” and leave and never look back. This also shows that Abigail knows that she is vulnerable and can be taken down by Proctor and Mary.
John Proctor is a farmer in his mid-thirties. Proctor is also the most well respected and feared person in Salem. At the beginning of the play Proctor is just a farmer but as the play goes on his role becomes more and more complex. In act on the audience becomes aware of the affair that happened between him and Abigail. I also know this from where he says:
“Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. I’ll not be comin’ for you no more.” This means that John is forgetting about the affair and saying that is over between him and Abigail.
In Act 2 when Cheever comes to take Elizabeth away. Proctor gets in the way and fights back at them to get them off of Elizabeth. I know this because he says:
“Herrick! Herrick, don’t chain her! Damn you man, you will not chain her! Off with them! I will not have her chained!”
This means that Proctor will not see his wife taken in chains to the jail for the charge of witchery.
In Act 3 Proctor goes to the court with Mary to save Elizabeth but then later on in act 3 his purpose becomes much larger when he admits to lechery in front of the court and also Giles gets arrested for withholding evidence but then Proctor signs the deed that says he has done witchcraft but then he rips it up and gets hung for it at the end and Abigail runs away to Boston.
