The third point is when Abigail is talking to John Proctor. In this scene Abigail tries to get John Proctor to love her again, “Give me your word, a soft word” This scene tells us that John Proctor and Abigail have had sexual relationship in the past and that John Proctor has done the wrong thing to Elizabeth. While Abigail is speaking she uses her tone of voice, to win over John Proctor, she does this by being forceful and putting words into his mouth, “ John, I am waiting for you every night,” but it doesn’t work and John says, “I will cut off my hand before I’ll reach for you again!” He is trying to do the right thing to Elizabeth Proctor.
The last point of this act is when Abigail Williams threatens the rest of the girls. This bit is dramatic because Abigail starts getting threatening when Betty suddenly wakes up and starts yelling, “ you drank blood, Abby!” Betty also says that Abigail has drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth. “ You drank a charm to kill goody Proctor!!” Abigail is getting a bit nervous when Betty is shouting things out very loud because she is scared that other people might hear it, so she slaps Betty in the face and tells her to shut up. “Shut it!! Now shut it!!” Abigail then threatens the girls and says,” I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you!!” she does this because she doesn’t want them to spread rumours about witchcraft and what they were doing in the forest. She is scared that someone would accuse her for witchcraft, which means that she would have to be hanged if anyone did accuse her. In this scene, Arthur Miller shows the Audience how selfish, bossy, threatening and aggressive Abigail is.
The first point I am going to write about in Act3 is when Judge Hathorne asks questions about Martha Corey. Arthur Miller has made this very dramatic because Hathorne ask questions as through Martha Corey is a witch “Why do you hurt these children?” He does this because he wants to try and trick her out and make her confess that she is a witch, “ Do you deny it?” Later in the scene Giles comes into the court claiming that he has “evidence for the court” Danforth then gets mad “you will keep your seat!” because the people in the town gets excited and people are yelling. Danforth gets mad because if Giles did have evidence to save his wife, it would prove that Danforth has been fooled and has been hearing lies which shows he doesn’t really have that much power and he is just believing anyone. The town people gets even more excited when Giles says to Danforth that he is hearing lies, “A roaring goes up from the town people.” This scene shows the audience that Danforth isn’t really that powerful and he doesn’t want the people to see him as though he is always wrong.
The second point is when Danforth questions Mary Warren. Danforth asks repeated questions because he senses that Mary Warren is weakening each time he questions her, “Has he ever threatened you? Has he threatened you?” He tries to make her say yes so that he could arrest John Proctor and he asks strong questions, “ you are either lying now or lying in the court!” He does this because Mary Warren starts to get weaker and weaker until finally she bursts out in tears. He wants to try and state that she is always lying but Mary Warren stays firm and is just replying, “No, sir.”
The third point is when the people in the court are cutting each other off. Every time John Proctor says something, Parris has to say something opposite to him, “I never found any of them naked, and this man is-” I think Arthur Miller has created some suspense in this act because in this scene, Parris says that he hasn’t seen any of the girls naked, but in act1 when he is talking to Abigail, he says, “ I thought I saw someone naked running through the trees! I saw it!” Parris is telling lies so he could get out of the blame and he can get John Proctor into trouble.
The fourth point is when Abigail and the other girls see a yellow bird. This scene is very very dramatic because Abigail and the girls are pretending to see a yellow bird and they keep on saying things like, “Envy is a deadly sin, Mary,” and “ oh, please, Mary! Don’t come down.” They are tying to accuse her for witchcraft and they are also trying to get her to change sides and accuse John Proctor instead of them.. Later in the scene, Danforth does believe that Mary Warren is sending her spirits out and attacking the girls, “Mary Warren! Draw back your spirit out of them!” He believes she is because Abby and the other girls mimicked what she is saying, “Never, never, never, never” and they are also pretending to see the yellow bird, “Her wings are spreading! Mary! Please don’t!” The girls are doing all these pretence just to get Mary Warren on to their side and at the end they do succeed, Mary Warren accuses John Proctor, “you’re the devil’s man!” Mary Warren was in a serious situation when Danforth is asking her questions, “Do you confess this power?” because she wanted to help John Proctor but if she did, she would had to be hanged because the girls were still repeating what she says, which shows that she has power and is sending them out to people. She finally makes the decision when John tries to talk to her, “don’t touch me, you’re the devil’s man!” This scene is very dramatic indeed and Arthur Miller has put a lot of tension between various characters ie, the girls and Mary Warren, Parris and John Proctor etc…
The final point in this act is when John Proctor is being accused. Danforth has heard a lot of information from Mary Warren about John Proctor, he believes what Mary Warren says is true so he questions John Proctor, “will you confess yourself befouled with hell or do you keep t hat black allegiance yet?” John Proctor is quite shocked over all this and he starts to get furious because hardly anyone would believe what he says was true and that Danforth is trusting the wrong people, this shows how weak Danforth is and he is just trusting anyone (refer back to first point), “ You are pulling heaven down and raising up a whore!” I think Arthur Miller has created the most drama in this act because John Proctor is being accused for something he has not done and he is not answering Danforth’s questions seriously and truthfully, “ a fire, a fire is burning, I hear Lucifer, we will burn together.” John Proctor is just taking all the blame and Arthur Miller has put a bit of heroism in here.
Overall, I think Arthur Miller has made the play very dramatic by using the skills mentioned in the introduction earlier because he makes the skills like dramatic irony fit in perfectly in the play and at the right time.
