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Explanation:
Act two begins in the Proctors' house. Elizabeth is cooking and cleaning when her husband, John, comes in from the farm. They discuss their children and their plans for the future. It is obvious that their relationship is strained. Elizabeth is very cold toward John. They talk about the accusations of witchcraft, and Elizabeth worries that the accused women will hang if they do not confess. She suggests that John go to the court and tell them that Abigail Williams told him that it has nothing to do with witchcraft; the girls just feared punishment for their behavior in the woods. John is reluctant to go, however, because he was alone with Abigail at the time and has no proof that she said these things to him. Elizabeth interprets his reluctance as a sign of affection for Abigail; he doesn't want to get her in trouble because he still has feelings for her. Clearly, she knows of their affair. John assures her that he no longer cares for Abigail and regrets having confessed his sins to her in the first place.
Mary Warren, their servant, returns from Salem having served the court all day, and gives Goody Proctor a poppet, which is a doll that she sewed for her. Mary Warren is upset because thirty-nine people have been arrested for witchcraft and Goody Osburn is set to hang. They sentenced her because she would not confess, unlike Goody Good who admitted that she made a compact with Lucifer and will, therefore, only sit in jail for awhile. Mary Warren explains that these women would choke her in the courtroom or send their spirits out to people in the night. Mary Warren said that when Sarah Good was accused of mumbling under breath, she said that she was only saying her commandments, so they asked her to recite the ten commandments, and she couldn't do it. They took this memory loss as a sign that she is a witch. John is upset that Mary Warren has been wasting her time falsely accusing good women of being witches when she should be doing her chores at their home. He threatens to whip her when Mary Warren shouts that she helped save Elizabeth's life by vouching for her in court when her name came up. She swore that Elizabeth was a good person, and they dismissed the charges. Mary Warren then goes to bed.
Elizabeth knows that it is likely Abigail who mentioned her as a witch because Abigail wants her dead. Proctor agrees to tell the court what Abigail said to him. Elizabeth also encourages him to make it clear to Abigail that he will never be with her again, and John says he will, but it still does not seem to be enough for Elizabeth. She has lost faith in her husband.
In this part the accusations are multiplying. Some of the women would rather confess to witchcraft than hang, but others hold to their morals and refuse to admit to a lie. All of the accusations are made by Abigail and her friends who claim these women hurt them and haunt them.
1.connotation
2. context...I think
3. not 100% sure.....A or B
4. vamparts is a noun
5. modifiers : quiet, in and out , Nouns = mice, pantry, verb = crept
6. automatically and as needed
7. noun
8. thousands of years ago
9. two or more ideas are equally important
10. a semi-colon should precede the conjunctive adverb
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is divided into three sections. In section I, Peyton Farquhar is standing on a railroad bridge, twenty feet above the water. His wrists are bound behind his back, and around his neck is a noose that is tied to a beam overhead. He is positioned on loose planks that have been laid over the crossties of the train tracks to create a makeshift platform. Two soldiers from the Northern army, a sergeant, and a captain immediately surround him, awaiting the execution. Beyond them, armed sentinels stand at attention. The bridge is bordered on one side by forest and, across the stream, open ground that gives way to a small hillock on which a small fort has been erected. A motionless company of infantrymen, led by their lieutenant, stands assembled before the fort. As the two soldiers finalize the preparations, they step back and remove the individual planks on which they had been standing. The sergeant salutes the captain then positions himself on the opposite end of the board supporting Farquhar, as the captain, like the soldiers, steps off and away from the crossties.
Awaiting the captain’s signal, the sergeant is about to likewise step away, sending Farquhar to dangle from the bridge’s edge. Farquhar stares into the swirling water below. He watches a piece of driftwood being carried downstream and notes how sluggish the stream seems to be. He shuts his eyes to push away the distractions of his present situation and focus more intently on thoughts of his wife and children. He suddenly hears a sharp, metallic ringing, which sounds both distant and close by. The sound turns out to be the ticking of his watch. Opening his eyes and peering again into the water, Farquhar imagines freeing his hands, removing the noose, and plunging into the stream, swimming to freedom and his home, safely located outside enemy lines. These thoughts have barely registered in Farquhar’s mind when the captain nods to the sergeant and the sergeant steps away from the board.
In section II, we learn that Farquhar was a successful planter, ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Unable to join the Confederate army, he yearned to help the South’s war effort in some significant way. One evening in the past, Farquhar and his wife were sitting on the edge of their property when a gray-clad soldier rode up, seeking a drink of water. The soldier appeared to be from the Confederate army. While his wife was fetching the water, Farquhar asked for news of the front and was informed that Northern forces had repaired the railroads in anticipation of launching another advance, having already reached the Owl Creek bridge. Any civilian caught interfering with the North’s efforts in the area, the soldier went on to reveal, would be hanged. Farquhar asked how a civilian could attempt some form of sabotage. The soldier told him that one could easily set fire to the driftwood that had piled up near the bridge after the past winter’s flood. The man, who was actually a Northern scout in disguise, finished his drink and rode off, only to pass by an hour later heading in the opposite direction.
Section III brings us back to the present, at the hanging. Farquhar loses consciousness as he plummets down from the side of the bridge. He is awakened by currents of pain running through his body. A loud splash wakes him up even more abruptly, and he realizes that the noose has broken—sending him falling into the stream below. Farquhar sees a light flicker and fade before it strengthens and brightens as he rises, with some trepidation, to the surface. He is afraid he will be shot by Northern soldiers as soon as he is spotted in the water. Freeing his bound hands, then lifting the noose from his neck, he fights extreme pain to break through the surface and take a large gasp of air, which he exhales with a shriek. Farquhar looks back to see his executioners standing on the bridge, in silhouette against the sky. One of the sentinels fires his rifle at him twice. Farquhar can see the gray eye of the marksman through the gun’s sights.
Farquhar then hears the lieutenant instructing his men to fire, so he dives down to avoid the shots. He quickly removes a piece of metal that sticks in his neck. Farquhar comes back up for air as the soldiers reload, and the sentinels fire again from the bridge. Swimming with the current, Farquhar realizes that a barrage of gunfire is about to come his way. A cannonball lands two yards away, sending a sheet of spray crashing over him. The deflected shot goes smashing into the trees beyond. Farquhar believes they will next fire a spray of grapeshot from the cannon, instead of a single ball, and he will have to anticipate the firing. Suddenly he is spun into a disorienting whirl, then ejected from the river onto a gravelly bank out of sight and range of his would-be executioners and their gunfire.
It’s probably C because C is when the problems started to happen.
Answer:
It is wise to know the enemy you face
Explanation:
According to the excerpt, Odyssey and his crew made an ignorant assumption that the Cyclops should honor their guests.
Little did King Odysseus realize that he had an entirely way of thinking and culture from the Cyclops. He tells Polyphemus, a Cyclop that he entreats him to <u>"have a care for the gods' courtesy.</u>.." and that <u>"Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest".</u>
Polyphemus replies that he <u>"care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus"</u> because the Cyclops had no regards for the gods as they believed themselves more powerful.
The theme of the conflict is that It is wise to know the enemy you face.
