John Proctor whose married to Elizabeth Proctor has an affair with Abigail Williams. She had been John’s wife’s servant before Mrs.Proctor released her of her duty. Reverend Parris had discovered multiple girls dancing in the forest as a woman named tituba chanted words over the fire. After the dancing a couple of the girls became ill. Mr. Parris asked ms. abigail if she and the others were conjuring spirits. Abigail responded to Mr. Parris stating that they only danced
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individual’s life Abigail Williams shows anger toward several characters. Foremost, her anger is directed at Elizabeth Proctor because she wants John for herself. She also shows anger toward the other girls when they do not follow through with her plot and anger toward Judge Danforth when he questions her in the courtroom. Abigail is angry with the world. She has been dismissed by Elizabeth Proctor for suspicion of having an affair with John, Elizabeth's husband. for this reason, Abigail is angry. She
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can tell there is tension between them. It has been seven months since John had the affair with Abigail and Elizabeth is still being cold. This bugs John because he has been trying to make things right again with his wife. Mary Warren then enters into the house saying that fourteen people have been put in jail and will be hung if they do not confess to witchcraft. John admits that he knows that Abigail and the rest of the girls are faking and Elizabeth says he must go into Salem and tell the court
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Crucible. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller there is a group of girls and one of them in Abigail who is the main antagonist in the story. The group of girls was seen in the woods doing “witchcraft”. Abigail and the girls are accused of witchcraft. The group of girls start to name other women in the town like John Proctor's wife. Abigail picks her mainly because she wants John Proctor for herself since John and Abigail had an affair previously. Now the girls accuse other people in the town to draw less
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court treats Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Martha Corey. In act 3, we also see that the court is making decisions blindly. They believe almost anything the girls say, without any proof to back it up. I think that this irrational decision making, is coming from the amount hysteria in the town. The court is so set on finding an answer, they don’t care what is truth or not. We see in act 3, that hysteria is making people believe things that are clearly fake. On page 1205, Abigail is in the courtroom
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Arthur Miller describes the irrational behaviour of people in “all classes”(Miller 7) from Salem, Massachusetts during this time of misdemeanor. Many characters throughout the play incriminate others due to bitterness and jealousy. For instance, Abigail indicted her former lover, John Proctor’s, wife. Ultimately the corrupted men and women of Salem reached their goal of hanging the pure, which leads to hysteria amongst the townsfolk. Although John Proctor begins the play as an ambivalent and uncertain
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Salem village if Abigail Williams and Betty Parris would have told the truth and not accuse the girls of connecting with the devil and practicing witchcraft and served their punishment. Abigail would have been able to stop this if she had not spread the rumor of witchcraft around the village and, also by not making accusations about Tituba being a witch. Because of her blaming Tituba, they know there is more than just one as Tituba says which, makes a panic for Parris. Abigail tells Mrs. Putnam
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characters in the book, Abigail would be the one most to blame. Each character have different
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I will be responding to what Libby Weimer said, “Act Three felt like it solely focused on Abigail and her maniacal doings, but then she just vanishes all of a sudden in Act Four? I was kind of disappointed that Arthur Miller didn't put more detail into Abigail leaving, as she was an important character throughout the acts. The only thing in Act Four that gave us a clue on where Abigail went is when Parris told Danforth and Hawthorne she was gone. "Excellency, I think they be aboard a ship. My daughter
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John before was a farmer who had a very high status. He had a maid named Mary Warren, a wife named Elizabeth and a servant named Abigail. In the beginning, he had an affair with Abigail while Elizabeth was sick. Elizabeth found out a little bit later but when she suspected something she let Abigail go. Abigail wanted to replace Elizabeth that's why she accused Elizabeth of witchcraft. Mary Warren becomes an official of the court to help with the trails of witchcraft. Reverend John doesn’t like Reverend
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