When Betty, Reverend Parris’ daughter, along with her cousin Abigail and other girls are caught dancing in the forest people immediately assumed the girls conjured the Devil. Reverend Hale comes into town hoping to help dispose of evil spirits, his process probably wasn’t the best it brought on lies. Tituba, the slave, confessed to working with the devil to protect herself after being whipped she decided to take people down with her. Abigail, selfishly rattled off the names of people she had “seen with
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but the power of religion has the power to destroy good things and cause havoc amongst firm believers. Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, takes place in the late seventeenth century a horrific event occurred known as the Salem Witch Trials in the town of Salem. Abigail and Elizabeth are perhaps two of his most important main characters in the play. These two represent the "good" and "evil" in the society of the town. Although these two characters were very distinct they shared something very big in common, which was the love
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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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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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The rebellious sinner and the adulterous killer The adulterous duo of John proctor and Abigail williams are two characters that are pivotal in the play. Their actions changed not only the emotions of the people around them, but also their thoughts and possibly even their beliefs. Abigail and John’s adultery is one of the focal points of the play. however, The original implications of the action aren’t mentioned as much. In the puritan community lechery(adultery) was punished almost as harshly
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novels cannot be more profoundly illustrated than comparing that of the character of Lady Macbeth authored by William Shakespeare within the book Macbeth to that character of Abigail authored by Arthur Miller within the book the Crucible. .......... The act of manipulation overwhelms the mindset of Lady Macbeth and Abigail. Although, how they choose to react to such a feeling is where individuality from one another occurs. The concept of Macbeth revolves around Lady Macbeth corrupting her husband’s
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