...Abigail Williams is a character in the play, The Crucible. Her parents were killed by Indians so she now lives with her uncle, Reverend Parris. Abigail William had an affair with John Proctor. She was the reason to why all the girls left to go to the woods. While in the woods, she attempted to put a spell on Goody Proctor because she was obsessed with Mr. Proctor so she wanted Mrs. Proctor gone so that she could have Mr. Proctor all to herself. Abigail lies about why she was in the woods to protect her name. Later her uncle, reverend Parris, questioned why she was kicked out of the Proctors home, she then lied again and said because she did not want to be a slave and that is what they were trying to do. She lied so she did not have to admit she had an affair with John...
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...In the Crucible by Arthur Miller identity is influenced by social and cultural mores in a variety of different ways. John Proctor and Abigail Williams and examples how social and cultural mores of the time affect the characters within the crucible. John Proctor one of the major characters in the play is a good guy who is honest with one thing that will haunt him that was a big mistake. He had an afar with abigail Williams. John realizes that the only way he can stop abigail’s crazy rampage through there towns to confesses that he had and affair with his wife. John proctor is affected by his time period/society because he hates hypocrisy witch it from that time period. John Proctor might have been affected during the 21st century because there...
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...Act 1 One of the main characters of the play The Crucible, Abigail Williams, is the villain of the play, even more than Parris or Danforth. In Act One her skills at manipulation are very noticeable. John Proctor, who has dumped her after his wife found out about this sinful affair, “Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. I’ll not be comin’ for you no more.” Since she was also dismissed from her job at their house, Abigail becomes increasingly envious of Elizabeth. Abigail always has a different story from what actually happens and convinces people that her story is the truth. One event that happens that displays this would be when Abigail was in the woods with the girls dancing and took it to the next level by drinking blood and taking off her clothing. Before the questioning of what happen in the woods Abigail states “Shut up! All of you. We danced. That is all, and mark this, if anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the other things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you!” When she's on the brink of getting busted for messing with witchcraft, she skillfully manages to pin the whole thing on Tituba and several of Salem's other woman. The horrible thing is that Abigail is the one who persuaded Tituba to go out and cast the spells. Ever since Abigail's affair with John Proctor, she's been out to get his wife, Elizabeth. Abigail convinced Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth, hoping to get...
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...am Christine Aquino, the character I have portrayed in my physical representation is Abigail Williams in the classic play ‘The Crucible’. Arthur Miller depicts Abigail Williams as a villain. Abigail is seventeen years old, the niece of Reverend Parris, she has been working as a household help for Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail was fired for having an affair with Elizabeth’s husband, John Proctor. Abigail’s was a manipulative young girl. I have represented Abigail as a spider, as she manipulates events like a spider manipulates and captures it victims through its web. On the first act, it can be seen that Abigail has a surprising power over the girls, she controlled the girls with her threating dialogue, “And you know...
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...Abigail Williams: The witch trials in Salem occurred because of Abigail. Abigail Williams is a character from the play “The Crucible”. She was raised by the village she grew up in. It was her fault that the trials had even occurred. She started something she could not finish and by starting it she killed many innocent people. Abigail is at blame because she did all of this just to get with John Proctor (Elizabeth Proctor’s husband), who drank the chicken blood charm to kill Elizabeth. The entire situation in Salem was all because of Abigail’s obsession with John Proctor. Abigail is not a victim of her society. She manipulated the entire town in order to get John to be with her. She is a villain more than a victim considering she tried to...
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...John Proctor, one of the main characters in The Crucible, has a crucible moment after having an affair with Abigail. Although John and Elizabeth are married, he cheats on her with Abigail. Proctor’s crucible moment within the play happens when he has to make a decision to either tell his wife about the affair, or keep it a secret, and feel guilty for the rest of his life. Because John can not forgive himself after the affair, he decides to tell Elizabeth about what happened. John Proctor passes the crucible test because he did the right thing even though his relationship with his wife will never be the same. Now that Elizabeth knows the truth, John now feels guilty about what he has done because his wife is upset with him. The wrong thing John...
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...with the Soviet Union, and the U.S. government was deeply concerned with national security. Some federal agents, had been convicted as spies. As a result, Americans became suspicious of plots, treason, and Communism at home. It was in this atmosphere that President Truman allowed Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, to lead the interrogation of alleged spies. But as we look, there’s a lot of similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthyism such as Innocent people were accused of things they didn’t commit, They both had mass fears that happened to them such as worshipping the devil and witches and the other was communism accused all immigrants being communist which made U.S not trust anyone, and lastly Both villains down fell and eventually killed themselves....
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...Abigail Williams Of the major characters, Abigail is the least complex. She is clearly the villain of the play, more so than Parris or Danforth: she tells lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to their deaths. Throughout the hysteria, Abigail’s motivations never seem more complex than simple jealousy and a desire to have revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. The language of the play is almost biblical, and Abigail seems like a biblical character—a Jezebel figure, driven only by sexual desire and a lust for power. Nevertheless, it is worth pointing out a few background details that, though they don’t mitigate Abigail’s guilt, make her actions more understandable. Abigail is an orphan and an unmarried girl; she thus occupies a low rung on the Puritan Salem social ladder (the only people below her are the slaves, like Tituba, and social outcasts). For young girls in Salem, the minister and the other male adults are God’s earthly representatives, their authority derived from on high. The trials, then, in which the girls are allowed to act as though they have a direct connection to God, empower the previously powerless Abigail. Once shunned and scorned by the respectable townsfolk who had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor, Abigail now finds that she has clout, and she takes full advantage of it. A mere accusation from one of Abigail’s troop is enough to incarcerate and convict even the well-respected inhabitant of...
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...The Crucible In the movie The Crucible the main characters are, John Proctor and Abigail Williams. The movie takes place during 1692 in Salem, a small town in colonial Massachusetts. The conflict in the movie all starts out because Abigail and her friends meet with a woman named Tituba. Each of the girls have brought Tituba goods which they all throw into the making of a soup. As the girls throw each ingredient into the soup they recite a man’s name and all together they perform a ritual. The ritual is performed so that each of the men’s names’ that were mentioned by the girls can make that man love them and to make them become their husbands. The other girls do not seem to realize the sensitivity of what they are doing....
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...but through manipulation she manages to subjugate the people of Salem, and "where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel" (99). In her opinion, she has "been near to murdered because I done my duty pointing out the Devils people... I am mistrusted, denied and questioned" (160) everyday. However, this allows her to further manipulate people into agreeing with her and heighten the hysteria running rampant in Salem. She over exaggerates and lies through her testimony, and gets even the judge to believe her. For example, one of the judges believed her when she said that one night, "without word...she fell onto floor. Like a struck beast... and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear" (123). Her character resembles the villain...
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...authority in Salem. John Proctor committed an affair with a seventeen-year-old girl named Abigail Williams. Throughout the story he is challenged with the guilt of committing adultery. John Proctor’s personal integrity is challenged in multiple parts of The Crucible. Proctor is challenged by the affair with Abigail, Hale questioning him about his relationship with God, giving up...
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...The temptress is a popular archetype in stories and legends, a temporary distraction for the hero, an obstacle to overcome and to conquer. They are evident in ancient myths and continue to entrap men in modern day film and literature. They are the portrayed as seductive and deceitful, using their feminine wiles in order to trick and manipulate the righteous man. The hero is never at fault for his lapse of judgement, his temporary fall from virtue. Instead, the blame is placed upon the woman, who uses her (often demonic) powers to ensnare and pervert the hero, who otherwise would never fall victim to his desires. Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old girl, embodies the temptress concept in Miller’s play. Her character starkly opposes Puritanical values, representing unrepressed desires in a society in which lust is considered sinful. Abigail...
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...Megan Jones English III AP DC Cy Woods Mr. Barckholtz December 2, 2012 Arthur Miller Research Essay Arthur Miller was an American playwright who wrote plays such as “The Crucible” and “Death of a Salesman” because he thought theatre could change the world. He wrote his works based on friends, his own life, and family. People believed he was a man of integrity and a hero because of the ways he portrayed himself. He was born in 1915 in Harlem, New York and raised in a very wealthy household by his parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller. After high school Miller worked lots of jobs to save up enough money to attend the University of Michigan, where he wrote his first paper that turned into his first play, called “No Villain”. Once he realized what he was good at, he moved east to start his new career. There he met his first wife Mary Slattery, but their relationship did not last long, and three weeks after the divorce he married actress Marilyn Monroe. This relationship was very good look for him because of what Marilyn Monroe’s career was at the time. He “divorced Monroe after five years”, and several months later “got married to Inge Morath”, whom he had two children with, Rebecca and Daniel Miller. There was one flaw about this family though, that “Miller excluded his son Daniel out of their lives” for the longest time. Miller did not want Daniel around because Daniel was diagnosed with Down syndrome, but Miller’s daughter, Rebecca, was married to a wise man...
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...reason for it. It is well known that it was not witches that caused the trials, but anything is possible. Those who were accused did not have a happy ending. Luckily the trials had an end. The Salem Witch Trials began in the 1692. Many of the girls from the Salem village began to act strange, the symp-toms were peculiar. The girls would throw fits so bad that all the town was enthralled by the by the behavior exhibited by the girls. The girl’s bodies would bend and be contorted in an unusual grotesque manner. Some of the other symptoms that would occur include, the girls losing their hearing, vision, verbal usage and a loss of memory. They would say things like specters would appear and attack them, leaving marks behind (Hansen 1). Dr. William Griggs was the man who had given the afflicted...
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...The Story of the Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775). And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence...
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