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Summary Act II
Summary
John Proctor sits down to dinner with his wife, Elizabeth. Mary Warren, their servant, has gone to the witch trials, defying Elizabeth’s order that she remain in the house. Fourteen people are now in jail. If these accused witches do not confess, they will be hanged. Whoever Abigail and her troop name as they go into hysterics is arrested for bewitching the girls.
Proctor can barely believe the craze, and he tells Elizabeth that Abigail had sworn her dancing had nothing to do with witchcraft. Elizabeth wants him to testify that the accusations are a sham. He says that he cannot prove his allegation because Abigail told him this information while they were alone in a room. Elizabeth loses all faith in her husband upon hearing that he and Abigail were alone together. Proctor demands that she stop judging him. He says that he feels as though his home is a courtroom, but Elizabeth responds that the real court is in his own heart.
The claim that was made by Rachel Carson at the beginning of the video is that "if were are ever to solve the basic problem that comes with contamination, we must begin to count the many costs of what we are doing"
In the above she claimed that pesticide were doing a lot of damage to the environment. This claim was expressed fully in her book: Silent Spring.
<h3>What support does Carson provide for her claim?</h3>
To support her claim, she indicated that there were a lot of associated carcinogenic and effects resulting form tumors.
Here are the points Carson made:
- That the Chemicals irradiative and that they are modifying the way the world eco-system.
- That it it was impossible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life
- That the chemicals should not be called 'insecticides' but 'biocides'.
<h3>What claim is made by the chemical engineer? </h3>
The chemical engineer Mr. Robert White-Stevens claimed her suggestion that pesticides are destroying life are exaggerated and a distortion of actual facts.
According to the engineers, the real threat was not chemical but biological and that the threat was the insects that ravage the supply of food made for man and transmit diseases.
<h3>What appears on screen while the chemical industry representative is making his argument?</h3>
Images of insects flying all around perched on kids and on people were the images that was flashed on the screen as the chemical engineers made his counterclaim.
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