Act 2

Oh, it is so much worse than I could have imagined. The world has gone mad! I don’t understand how nobody in Salem has any sense any more. They took Elizabeth. Earlier Mary came back from court saying that there are thirty-nine women in jail for being witches. All put there without any actual proof! The devil must really be among us if innocent people are to be hanged. And the only way to avoid hanging is to admit you are a witch. How messed up is that? Hale even admitted that when I told him. Cheever came straight into my home and took my wife away to jail because a poppet had a pin in it. This is all absurd.

                It makes all of this even worse that Elizabeth and I got into a fight earlier today and I saw she was upset again. It had to do with Abigail. And now Abigail is the one accusing Elizabeth. Since when can a girl just accuse someone and they get sent to jail. Something is dangerously wrong. Someone in court was sail to have “sent their spirit” to strangle people. Hale even admitted that Parris and Abigail could be just as easily as anyone else, yet he won’t do anything about it! Why are suddenly all of these “witches” popping up? It’s ludicrous that this is what we have come to.

                Francis Nurse and Giles Corey showed up tonight too. Both of their wives were arrested also. Both with no proof! Something needs to be done to stop this immediately. Mary had said that Elizabeth had been brought up but when Hale showed up to question me I knew the people were suspicious. This just isn’t right. I’m afraid they’ll come for me too now. I wasn’t able to re-site the complete Ten Commandments... I forgot adultery. Hale also asked why only two of my kids are baptized. It is true that my youngest isn’t, but it’s only because Reverend Parris is a materialistic man. My thoughts of him are clearly right considering has permitted this with business and is going to allow these people to be killed. That doesn’t even matter at this point. What does matter is that they have my wife and this court needs to be stopped and it needs to be stopped now!