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The Crucible

Auther Miller

In this scene of the play, John Proctor, whose wife, Elizabeth has been arrested as a witch, has brought to the court Marry Warren, who has evidence that Abigail and the other afflicted girls have been pretending. As the scene opens, Abigail interrupts the interrogation of John Proctor by the prosecutor, Danforth.

Cast of Characters in this Scene:

Abigail Williams: 18-year-old niece of Reverend Paris. In love with John Proctor, she pretends to be possessed in an attempt to have Proctor\'s wife condemned as a witch.

John Proctor: Farmer in his mid-thirties seeking to free his wife from false charges.

Marry Warren: 17-year-old servant of John Proctor.

Mercy Lewis and Susanna Walcott: Mercy is an 18-year-old servant girl; Susanna is a little younger. Along with Abigail, they claim to be possessed by witches.

Reverend Samuel Parris: Zealous minister who begins the witch hunt in Salem.

Deputy Governor Danforth: Deputy Governor of Salem, prosecutor in this case.

Reverend John Hale: A minister who is called to Salem by Reverend Parris to help determine whether witchcraft is afoot.

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Abigail, with a wired, wild, chilling cry, screams up to the ceiling.

Abigail: You will not! Begone! Begone, I say!

Danforth: What is it, child (But Abigail, pointing with fear, is now raising up her frightened eyes, her awed face, toward the ceiling--the girls are doing the same--and now Hawthrone, Haler, Putnam, Cheever, Herrick, and Danforth do the same.) What\'s there (He lowers his eyes from the ceiling, and now he is frightened; there is real tension in his voice.) Child! (She is transfixed--with all the girls, she is whimpering open-mouthed, agape at the ceiling.) Girls! Why do you--

Mercy Lewis (pointing): It\'s on the beam! Behind the rafter!

Danforth (looking up): Where!

Abigail: Why-- (She gulps.) Why do youe, yellow bird

Proctor: Where\'s a bird I see no bird!

Abigail (to the ceiling): My face My face

Proctor: Mr. Hale--

Danforth: Be quiet!

Proctor (to Hale): Do you see a bird

Danforth: Be quiet!

Abigail (to the ceiling, in a genuine conversation with the \"bird,\" as though trying to talk it out of attacking her): But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Marry.

Marry Warren (on her feet with a spring, and horrified, pleading): Abby!

Abigail (unperturbed, continuing to the \"bird\"): Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it\'s God\'s work I do.

Mary Warren: Abby, I\'m here!

Proctor (frantically): They\'re pretending, Mr. Danforth!

Abigail (Now she takes a backward step, as though in fear the bird will swoop down momentarily.): Oh, please, Mary! Don\'te down.

Susanna Walcott: Her claws, she\'s stretching her claws!

Proctor: Lies, Lies.

Abigail (backing further, eyes still fixed above): Mary, please don\'t hurt me!

Mary Warren (to Danforth): I\'m not hurting her!

Danforth (to Mary Warren): Why does she see this vision

Mary Warren: She sees nothin\'!

Abigail (now staring full front as though hypnotized, and mimicking the exact tone of Mary Warren\'s cry): She sees nothin\'!

Mary Warren (pleading): Abby, you mustn\'t!

Abigail and all the girls (all transfixed): Abby, you mustn\'t!

Mary Warren (to all the girls): I\'m here, I\'m here!

Girls: I\'m here, I\'m here!

Danforth (horrified): Marry Warren! Draw back your spirit out of them!

Mary Warren: Mr. Danforth!

Girls (cutting her off): Mr. Danforth!

Danforth: Have youpacted the devil Have you

Mary Warren: Never, never!

Danforth (growing hysterical): Why can they only repeat you

Proctor: Give me a whip--I\'ll stop it!

Mary Warren: They\'re sporting, they--!

Girls: They\'re sporting!

Mary Warren (turning on them all hysterically and stamping her feet): Abby, stop it!

Girls (stamping their feet): Abby, stop it!

Wary Warren: Stop it!

Girls: Stop it!

Mary Warren (screaming it out at the top of her lungs, and raising her fists): Stop it!

Girls (raising their fists): Stop it!

Mary Warren, utterly confounded, and bing overwhelmed by Abigail\'s--and the girls\'--utter conviction, starts to whimper, hands half raised, powerless, and all the girls begin whimpering exactly as she does.

Danforth: A little while ago, it seems you were afflicted. Now it seems you have afflicted others; where did you find this power

Mary Warren (staring at Abigail): I--have no power.

Girls: I have no power.

Proctor: They\'re gulling you, Mister!

Danforth: Why did you turn about this past two weeks You have seen the Devil, have you not

Hale (indicating Abigail the girls): You cannot believe them!

Mary Warren: I--

Proctor (sensing her weakening): Mary, God damns all liars!

Danforth (pounding it into her): You have seen the Devil, you have madepact with Lucifer, have you not

Mary utters something unintelligible, staring at Abigail, who keeps watching the \"bird\" above.

Proctor: God damns liars, Mary!

Danforth: I cannot hear you. What do you say (Mary utters again unintelligibly.) You will confess yourself or you will hang! (He turns her roughly to face him.) Do you know who I am I say you will hang if you do not open with me!

Proctor: Mary, remember the angel Raphael--do that which is good and--

Abigail (pointing upward): The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please, don\'t, don\'t--

Hale: I see nothing, Your Honor!

Danforth: Do you confess this power (He is an inch away from her face.) Speak!

Abigail: She\'s going toe down! She\'s walking on the beam!

Danforth: Will you speak!

Mary Warren (staring in horror): I cannot!

Girls: I cannot!

Parris: Cast the Devil out! Look him in the face! Trample him! We\'ll save you Mary, only stand fast against him and--

Abigail (looking up): Look out! She\'sing down!

She and all the girls run to one wall, shielding their eyes. And now, as though cornered, they let out a gigantic scream, and Mary, as though infected, opens her mouth and screams with them. Gradually Abigail and the girls leave off, until only Mary is left there, staring up at the \"bird,\" screaming madly. All watch her; horrified by this evidence fit. Proctor strides to her.

Proctor: Mary, tell the Governor what they-- (He has hardly got a word out, when seeing himing for her, she rushes out of his reach, screaming in horror.)

Mary Warren: Don’t touch me—don’t touch me! (At which the girls halt at the door.)

Proctor (astonished): Mary!

Mary Warren (pointing at Proctor): You’re the Devil’s man!

He stopped in his tracks.

Parris: Praise God!

Girls: Praise God!

Proctor (numbed): Mary, how—

Mary Warren: I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God!

Danforth (to Mary): He bid you do the Devil’s work

Mary Warren (hysterically indicating Proctor): Hee at me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to—

Danforth: To sign what

Parris: The Devil’s book Hee with a book

Mary Warren (hysterically pointing at Proctor, fearful of him): My name, he want my name. “I’ll murder you,” he says,  “if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,” he says!

Danforth’s head jerks toward Proctor, shock and horror in his face.

Proctor (turning, appealing to Hale): Mr. Hale!

Marry Warren (her sobs begin): He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign…

Hale: Excellency, the child’s gone wild!

Proctor (as Danforth’s wide eyes pour on him): Mary, Mary!

Mary Warrens (screaming at him): No, I love God; I go your way no more, I love God, I bless God. (Sobbing she rushes to Abigail) Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more! (They all watch, as Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up to Danforth.)

解析:

這是一部關於薩勒姆女巫審判的戲曲節選。在1692-1603期間,美國馬塞諸塞州很多女子都被認為是女巫因為她們都得了怪病。人民覺得這是惡魔在作怪所以處死了許多女孩。當然如果她們可以供出其他人或是誰指使她們,有的女孩便可以豁免。於是大家互相指認這虛無的罪名,雖然這並不是真的但那又怎麽樣呢?為了能活下去她們把越來越多的人拉下水,管她到底是誰,只要咬定她是一個女巫那誰都逃不掉。很多女孩就像劇中的Mary一樣,被逼瘋後便開始責怪他人,讓自己洗白罪名。本是無虛有東西卻被越描越真,是非被顛倒又怎能找到清白?

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