In act
two of s play, , John Proctor decides that it is time to stand up to
Abigail Williams in order to save his wifes life. As the act draws to a close, Proctors wife,
Elizabeth, and several other notable women in the town, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey, have
been arrested under suspicion of witchcraft. Abigail claims that Elizabeth Proctor sent her
spirit out with a needle and stabbed her in the stomach with it. Cheever, the newly appointed
clerk of the court explains the charge as he arrests Elizabeth.
CHEEVER: The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in
Reverend Parriss house tonight, and without word nor warnin she falls to the floor. Like a
struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save
her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin of her
how she come to be so stabbed, sheto Proctor nowtestify itwere your...
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