Betty, and his niece Abigail. After this scene fear gets its biggest part in the movie. Betty falls into a coma nothing can wake her. The town including her father believes that the devil has got hold of her. I believe that Betty is just scared to get in trouble, and there are pieces of evidence that prove it. First off through the entire movie all the girls of the town are lying that they can see the devil. Why would this be untrue for this small girl? Second during church Abigail and the girls march
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and believed that those who practiced it should be put to death. However, a seventeenyearold girl named Abigail Williams had been practicing witchcraft with her friends in the woods, and basically got caught. To cover up the situation she accuses innocent people in the village of doing it in such a way it made the judges believe she was seeing the devil with them, which saved herself from trial. John Proctor though, is no fool. Once he makes this clear to Abigail, she decides to accuse his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, of witchcr
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people hope to be redeemed. The forward most would have to be John Proctor. Proctor wanted to recover himself from a couple of different things, one of which was to renew himself in the eyes of his wife, Elizabeth, from the affair he had with Miss Abigail Williams. John tries very hard to make his wife see the contrition and forgive him for being unloyal to her. John also looks for redemption within himself. John can’t seem to come to terms with
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Proctor repeat “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” and forgetting adultery. This is suspicious since the fundamental principle of the Massachusetts was based on the word of God. This is also ironic since Mr.Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams; “you loved me then and you do now”(15). This proves that many don’t confess to their wrong doing just to avoid to punishment.
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Lindsey Sibille Ms. Gonzales AP English III, 1 16 October 2015 The Crucible Book Card Assignment Authorial Background Arthur Miller is the award-winning playwright of The Crucible along with many other famous plays such as Death Of a Salesman and All My Sons. Born in Manhattan in 1915, Miller experienced the pressing and devastating times of the Great Depression and both World Wars. His first two plays were The Man Who Had All the Luck and All My Sons, with the latter being performed
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traits Re: Abigail & Elizabeth Elizabeth and Abigail are the epitomai of foils in The Crucible. Abigail represents evil and duplicity while Elizabeth represents naivety and truth. These two characters highlight one another's traits in the result of the contrast of personality between the two. Abigail serves as a representation of all things evil, sly, and treacherous. Almost everything that can be heard from her mouth is either a lie or a form of deception. To begin on page 1195 Abigail says, “She
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characteristics. His flaw is committing adultery towards his wife. Before the play began, Proctor’s lust for Abigail Williams, who was once the servant for the Proctor household and Reverend Parris’ niece, led him to have an affair with her. This is what set the entire plot of the play because after the affair Elizabeth, his wife, fired Abigail and caused Abigail to become jealous of her. The affair drove Abigail to want John Proctor all to herself and do anything to get
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the Salem witch trials. The play begins with Abigail Williams and her friends dancing in the woods. In an attempt to get John Proctor, after he ended their affair, Abigail curses his wife Elizabeth. The rumor of witchcraft is triggered when Abigail’s friends, Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam are both unable to move or talk when they became frightened when Reverend Parris found the group in the woods. Reverend Hale, a believed expert in witchcraft
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had an affair with Abigail Williams. This action was taking because of the jealousy that Abigail had built up towards John´s wife. ¨Abigail: She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her¨ (Miller 23). Although Elizabeth, John´s wife, had done nothing wrong, Abigail plots her revenge by trying to get the town to believe that Elizabeth is a witch. This being said, Elizabeth would be hanged and Abigail would have John all
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books contain characters who are accused of a sin that wouldn’t be as big of a deal now - and punishments that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment now - such as public shame and hanging. Abigail in The Crucible and Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter both commit similar sins. Abigail is intimate with a married man and Hester is intimate with someone who isn’t her husband. “I look for John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!” (Miller). “...heard of Mistress
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