Sunday, May 13, 2012

Construct a response to Danforth. What do you think she might have wanted to say to him in response to his accusation that she is "stone"? Make your response as long as Danforth's speech.


Danforth on pg. 116:

Goody Proctor, you are not sum-moned here for disputation. Be there no wifely tenderness within you? He will die with the sunrise. Your husband. Do you under-stand it? She only looks at him. What say you? Will you contend with him? She is silent. Are you stone? I tell you true, woman, had I no other proof of your unnatural life, your dry eyes now would be sufficient evidence that you delivered up your soul to Hell! A very ape would weep at such calamity! Have the devil dried up any tear of pity in you? She is silent. Take her out. It profit nothing she should speak to him!
Elizabeth’s reply:
How dare you Danforth. Thy be filled with wifely tenderness, my words will not change any accusations towards my John, what do you expect me to say. Am I stone? AM I STONE? Are you stone? No matter what I could or can say, nothing will change ones indictments, I cannot make or tell such an innocent person to lie, that would be a sin against thy Christian beliefs. No decision is mine to make, Judge Danforth, only I will animate with ones consequence. 

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