Read this passage from Act 2, Part 5, of The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
CHEEVER (wide-eyed, trembling): The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s 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, she (to Proctor now) testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.
How does this report impact the reader’s understanding of the characters?
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It suggests that Abigail’s performance is beginning to create real physical symptoms.
It informs the reader that Parris now fully believes that Abigail has become a victim of witchcraft.
It shows that Mary Warren is easily manipulated into doing Abigail’s deeds.
It shows how deliberate Abigail will be in framing Elizabet
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