“Parris, his eyes going wide: No -- no. There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr.Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none.” (Miller.39)
This is why hysteria and paranoia had the biggest impact on the story, because people were afraid of being accused of working with the devil so Proctor keeps quiet, worried of something unnatural like witchcraft. An example of paranoia is in Hale 's book
“In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits -- your incubi and succubi;” (Miller.39)
An example of hysteria is when Abigail saw the yellow bird in the court
“Abigail, …show more content…
Y’see he buy a pig of my wife four or five years ago, and the pig died soon after. So he come dancin’ in for his money back. So my Martha, she says to him, Walcott, if you haven 't the wit to feed a pig properly, you’ll not live to own many,” she says. Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch them with her books!”. (Miller.72)
I also say that this quote is an example of paranoia because he was so sure that his pig was gonna stay alive even though he didn’t take proper care for it so they kept dying. Also when he accused his wife of bewitching him through books it shows his ignorance and how paranoid he was about witches because his pigs kept dying after Giles wife sold him the first pig, only if he too proper care of the pigs he had he wouldn’t think that he is cursed and Giles wife wouldn’t be accused of witchcraft. This is why I believe paranoia played a big part within the story, everyone 's fear of the …show more content…
Danforth: Do you confess this power! He is an inch from her face. Speak!
Abigail: She’s going to come down! She’s walking the beam!”. (Miller.117)
So in this quote, Abigail is going through some sort of transformation which makes Hale and Danforth curious about what transformation she is going through because they don’t see her sprouting wings and it only worries Mary ask Abigail to not continue with what she’s doing. Here Abigail is saying that she is seeing things that Mary Warren is bring upon her. When Abigail says “she 's about to come down” she is referring to a yellow bird she believes is Mary Warren who is going to hurt her.
Another example of hysteria shown is used by Proctor and Parris. “ Danforth: turning to Abigail: A poppet were discovered in Mr. Proctor’s house, stabbed by a needle. Mary Warren claims that you sat beside her in the court when she made it, and that you saw her make it and witnessed how she herself stuck her needle into it for safe-keeping. What say you to that?....
Proctor: It will keep if it is kept, but Mary Warren swears she never saw no poppets in my house, nor anyone else.
Parris: Why could there not have been poppets hid where no one ever saw
This is why hysteria and paranoia had the biggest impact on the story, because people were afraid of being accused of working with the devil so Proctor keeps quiet, worried of something unnatural like witchcraft. An example of paranoia is in Hale 's book
“In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits -- your incubi and succubi;” (Miller.39)
An example of hysteria is when Abigail saw the yellow bird in the court
“Abigail, …show more content…
Y’see he buy a pig of my wife four or five years ago, and the pig died soon after. So he come dancin’ in for his money back. So my Martha, she says to him, Walcott, if you haven 't the wit to feed a pig properly, you’ll not live to own many,” she says. Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch them with her books!”. (Miller.72)
I also say that this quote is an example of paranoia because he was so sure that his pig was gonna stay alive even though he didn’t take proper care for it so they kept dying. Also when he accused his wife of bewitching him through books it shows his ignorance and how paranoid he was about witches because his pigs kept dying after Giles wife sold him the first pig, only if he too proper care of the pigs he had he wouldn’t think that he is cursed and Giles wife wouldn’t be accused of witchcraft. This is why I believe paranoia played a big part within the story, everyone 's fear of the …show more content…
Danforth: Do you confess this power! He is an inch from her face. Speak!
Abigail: She’s going to come down! She’s walking the beam!”. (Miller.117)
So in this quote, Abigail is going through some sort of transformation which makes Hale and Danforth curious about what transformation she is going through because they don’t see her sprouting wings and it only worries Mary ask Abigail to not continue with what she’s doing. Here Abigail is saying that she is seeing things that Mary Warren is bring upon her. When Abigail says “she 's about to come down” she is referring to a yellow bird she believes is Mary Warren who is going to hurt her.
Another example of hysteria shown is used by Proctor and Parris. “ Danforth: turning to Abigail: A poppet were discovered in Mr. Proctor’s house, stabbed by a needle. Mary Warren claims that you sat beside her in the court when she made it, and that you saw her make it and witnessed how she herself stuck her needle into it for safe-keeping. What say you to that?....
Proctor: It will keep if it is kept, but Mary Warren swears she never saw no poppets in my house, nor anyone else.
Parris: Why could there not have been poppets hid where no one ever saw