A) Abigail convinces Rev. Parris she did nothing to soil his reputation:
Rev. Parris is standing next to a table Rev. Parris yells: “Abigail come here this instant!” Abigail enters stage left scared Rev. Parris in an angry tone: “Sit down!” Abigail sits down across from Rev. Parris Rev. Parris gets in Abigail’s face and begins to grill her with questions Rev. Parris: “What were you doing in the forest with my daughter so late?” Abigail's face begins to flush Abigail: “We were dancing uncle!” Rev. Parris: “That is out of character for both of you, only witches do that.” Abigail: “You’re right, what we were doing was very odd and out of the ordinary(concession is being used here p. 3). However, we would never do anything to jeopardize your reputation and we know that if we acted like heathens that would jeopardize it.” Rev. Parris: “Well what on God’s green earth were you doing then?” Abigail: “We were just dancing!” Rev. Parris: “ I just-” Abigail: “Hang on, there’s more (dirimens copulatio aka but wait there’s more p.6)! Titiba always sings Barbados songs to us and we dance!” Rev. Parris: “Then why did Betty faint, that seems an awful lot like witchcraft.” Abigail: “You know how she spooks easy. When you jumped out from behind that huge bush it just startled her.” Rev. Parris: “What do you expect people to think about me?” Abigail: “If I go to testify and tell everyone my exact account, why wouldn’t they believe me?” Rev. Parris puts his hands over his face in frustration Rev. Parris through his hands: “No one will believe you, you are a silly child” Abigail: “My point exactly! We are silly little girls dancing in the forest and we were just acting foolish.” Abigail finally relaxes Rev. Parris finally is calm and sits down Rev. Parris: “You seem to have a point there.” Abigail: “All I am saying is that if we do not get control of the people in our town, the town will control us” (chasimus p.10). Rev. Parris: “It seems as if you will be giving a testimony to the town then young one.” Abigail: “I will give the best one yet!” Rev. Parris exists stage left Abigail exits stage right
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Skyler Cake
9/20/2020 09:51:24 am
Hi Hope!
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Mrs. Crandall
10/27/2020 06:18:53 pm
Wow! What a great use of chiasmus! So creative! So much could pain have been avoided if Abigail had only used this argument!
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