Read the last act of the play and write a commentary . Be sure to include a short summary, in your own words, of the action. Wha
t 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.?
The last two verses of the poem are composed of end-stopped lines, the rest are entirely composed of enjambed lines. Explanation: An end-stopped line is a poetic resource that causes a verse in a poem to be completed on the same line in which it was started.
