Read the last act of the play and write a commentary in a Word document, post here on assignments. Be sure to include a short summary, in your own words, of the action. What are your thoughts on this fictionalized version of a event that actually happened in the early years of this country? Do you think, after reading this and the article in Common Lit. about the Salem Witchcraft trials that this is something that could happen again? Not ecessarily involving charges of witchcraft, but can you imagine a situation where citizens and neighbors accuse each other of crimes in order to get revenge or for another purpose? Finally, what are your thoughts on the people of Salem--their behavior, their belief in the girls' stories, etc.?

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret