during this fight. Abigail and John Adams are important known historical figures from the American Revolution. Abigail and John communicated through letters widely documented and used for the study of the war. The American Revolution affected this couple in many ways individually and as a married couple. John was a member of the Continental Congress, a select group to lobby for American independence. Being a part of this group required John to be away from his homestead while Abigail stayed behind to
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Abigail’s Character Abigail is a Salem girl who wanted a married man named, John proctor which did have an affair early in there lives. Abigail and her “friends” or her followers and Tituba were doing some witchcraft in the woods. Abigail and her selfishness drunk chicken blood and caused the girls to go crazy. Overall they got caught and to get out of trouble they blamed all the other women of Salem just to get out of trouble and get what they wished for, all of that caused innocent people to die
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is introduced to us as a adulterous man, but in the end of the play he is represented as a heroic man. Abigail and her friends start to accuse people of witchcraft. The who village goes crazy about witchcraft. John Proctor decides to go to Salem and talks to Abigail by himself to see what all this mischief is about. Abigail tells John Proctor they are just acting silly and it all sport. Abigail and John talk back and forth and this is when we find out what
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“The Crucible” Argument Essay Does accusing the people around you to be arrested and hanged to get whatever you want be considered as selfish and wicked? In “The Crucible” by Author Miller, Abigail Williams is a vicious and vindictive person who used the witchcraft hysteria around the town of Salem in 1692. Abigail Williams is a 17 year old orphan who is strikingly beautiful but she is a liar and a fake. She saw an opportunity to seek vengeance upon John’s wife for kicking her out of their house and
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example, in the play The Crucible the girls who was following Abigail knew dancing was considered in Salem as an act of the devil. When they got caught dancing in the forest, they began to think about their punishments in this case, were whippens, jail, or even worse death. They decided to keep following Abigail's lead and began to claim that the devil and these images of the people from Salem tried to make them do horrible things. Soon Abigail started to take advantage of this power and used it for evil
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could be blamed for the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams is a seventeen year old girl that is in love with an older married man. In her hunt to have him as her own, she leads her group of friends to accuse his wife and many others of witchcraft. It is most clearly demonstrated that it was Abigail William’s flaws – envy, dishonesty, and lust – that led her to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. Throughout The Crucible Abigail is envious of Elizabeth Proctor, and tries
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Massachusetts, where a young woman named Abigail Williams is stirring up trouble in the town. Abigail and a bunch of other girls from the town gets caught dancing in the woods by Reverend Parris, she wants John Proctor back, and is trying to get his wife Goody Proctor out the way. Abigail was once Goody and John Proctor’s housekeeper. Goody started sensing that Abigail was trying to go after John so she made the decision to kick her out the house. Abigail didn’t like that and she thought that Goody
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Abigail is a Salem girl who wanted a married man named, John Proctor which did have an affair early in their lives. Abigail and her “friends” or her followers and Tituba were doing some witchcraft in the woods. Abigail and her selfishness drunk chicken blood and caused the girls to go crazy. Overall they got caught and to get out of trouble they blamed all the other women of Salem just to get out of trouble and get what they wished for, all of that caused innocent people to die. One of Abigail
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Character Analysis Abigail Williams Abigail Williams is the vehicle that drives the play. She bears most of the responsibility for the girls meeting with Tituba in the woods, and once Parris discovers them, she attempts to conceal her behavior because it will reveal her affair with Proctor if she confesses to casting a spell on Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail lies to conceal her affair, and to prevent charges of witchcraft. In order to avoid severe punishment for casting spells and adultery —
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a way to make Cheever believe them. Proctor failed because since he had the affair with Abigail, she wanted to be with him so badly that she caused this trial to become something so much worse than what it should’ve been. He also had the chance to change his fate and not be hung so he could be with his wife and kids, but he doesn’t want his name to be looked down upon so he chooses to be hung instead. Abigail made all of the girls go along with her story by threatening them to protect
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