“ABIGAIL: Why—? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird?
PROCTOR: Where’s a bird? I see no bird!”
As you probably already know we have been reading the crucible in our class for the past couple weeks. Throughout this time we have been creating blog posts based on questions we were given. If you want to get a better idea of what these blog posts are you can read my first two, How To Spot a Tourist and My Concept of Heaven.
Now you’re most likely wondering what this quote up above is all about. Well to put it simply it’s a excerpt from the end of act 3 in the Crucible. The reason I’ve included this is because these lines are what I’m basing this blog post on. One of the choices we could pick to make a blog post about was this: Think of an image from the play and use that image to create a spatial poem or something similar (an image? a photo essay?). The image that first came to mind for me was this scene from the play as it has a very importance role in the story.
if you haven’t read the crucible or scene the movie here is the trailer:
During this scene they are in the courthouse where judge Danforth and reverend Hale decide whether someone is guilty or not of witchery. Abigail a character who is jealous girl, and manipulates and lies to get what she wants is in the courthouse as well. She is the one making accusations against innocent people. But as soon as thing start turning against her and not going her way she pretends to that she’s being attacked by the spirit of Mary Warren. Throughout this scene the pretending gets worse and the other girls in the courthouse start following along, getting immersed within the lie. The adults in the room at this point did not know what’s going on, so you can kind of see how they thought this was something out of the ordinary. Progressively it gets to a point where even Mary Warren joins in with it. When she does this it kind of made the point from her end of if you can’t beat them join them. At the end of the scene Hale gets so fed up with this nonsense of witch craft that he quits the court.
To represent this scene I decide to create a visual that I made myself showing all the major aspects. To add onto the visual I filled the image with the script of what each character was saying from the play to make it more interesting and show the meaning of the image. Here is the image i created:
