soldiers were torturing and ing millions of Jewish people. In the similar situation written about in The Crucible, Abigail Williams convinced the town of Salem that select people throughout the town were practicing witchcraft. A trial was held to determine if the people were actually witches, and Abigail found she had great power when she blamed the people of her town. Despite the fact that Abigail was a child, the s listened to her accusations and were convinced that she was telling the truth. Amongst the
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in 2013 under the Grand father movie production, and is an inspiration of Christoper Marlowe’s play with the same title, has some obvious similarities with The Merchant of Venice. This movie is casted by Seth Duerr as Barabas, Katherine Heaney as Abigail, Barabas’ daughter and many more. The play and the movie is similar in some ways. The main character in The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta are protagonist Jewish, Barabas in The Jew of Malta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Both of
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has memorized the Ten Commandments. Would a witch regularly attend mass, own a bible, and listen to the Ten Commandments? She was disappointed but not too upset with her husband John Proctor after he committed the act of adultery against her with Abigail Williams. I will get to her later. She still didn’t scream
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In Salem Village in 1692, Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughter and niece (respectively) of the Reverend Samuel Parris, began to have fits described as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect" by John Hale, minister in nearby Beverly.[13] The girls screamed, threw things about the room, uttered strange sounds, crawled under furniture, and contorted themselves into peculiar positions, according to the eyewitness account of Rev. Deodat Lawson
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When she is trying to persuade Proctor to tell the court that Abigail said the girls were not practicing witchcraft, Elizabeth blurts out, "John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not." Elizabeth is confessing that she believes Proctor had an affair with Abigail. She is giving him no mercy by showing that she will never forget what happened. When Elizabeth is being accused of stabbing Abigail, she instructs Proctor to go to court, and tells him "Oh, John
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All throughout the play, persecution seems to have an affect on the people through the play based on vengeance. In the play Abigail Williams had a lot of vengeance towards Goody Proctor, who was the wife of John Proctor who had an affair with Abigail who wanted to be with him, but he doesn’t want anything to do with her anymore. Later into the play Abigail makes the decision to stabs herself and blame it on Elizabeth for using witchcraft on her. Causing Elizabeth to be thrown in jail. In the proctors
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mind. It’s something John Proctor, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor thought about. They spent time making their reputations, building themselves up to an image and acting certain ways only to have it broken down due to their own stubbornness of protecting the name they were given. To have your reputation ruined is tragic, but is losing it to the truth okay? Is risking your name and what others think of you worth it? First off, Abigail Williams. Abigail was an orphan who used to work for the
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end of the play, mostly because of the Witchcraft accusations, his affair with Abigail, and Morally. What with all the obstacles he dealt through acts 1 through 4 it causes him to change his views on things. In act 1 John Proctor had still felt some emotion for Abigail when they had met again. He had always said that he wouldn’t speak to her again but always ended up coming back. In the story it states “Looking at abigail now, the faintest suggestion of a knowing smile on his face: What is this mischief
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importance to someone, people will do anything in order to protect it even if the means are considered unjust and ‘unrighteous‘. Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor of ‘blackening my name in the village‘ after commiting adultery with John Proctor, Elizabeth’s husband. This cause her to fear for her reputation, and how people will view her. Afraid of her reputation, Abigail Williams acts in fear to and pointed the finger at Tituba claiming that she was practising witchcraft ‘she sends her spirit on me
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with Abigail, when John Proctor confesses he reveals the reason for why the trials started and when Rev. Hale hears this he is enlightened. With this out John Proctor has nothing to hide or keep secret from anyone, that means there is no reason to deceive anyone. In addition, when John Proctor is having a talk with his wife Elizabeth he says “ She told me in a room alone.” (163). In this scene Proctor is having a conversation with with his wife and tells his wife that he was alone with Abigail when
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