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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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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Managing Conflict Joshua E. Watts Excelsior College Managing Conflict When relationships become closer, more personal, and more interdependent, conflicts become increasingly more likely, hence inevitable. (Cahn and Abigail, 2014, p.5) This is call the inevitability of conflict principle which I experienced several years back when my wife and I took her two younger brothers in to live with us after their mother passed away. They were in high school at the time and had been in their lives
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of the more uplifting moments from this past episode. Rosemary adds yet another title to herself. Matchmaker! After receiving a letter from Cody meant for her advice column, she takes it upon herself to fix the situation. Cody needs help getting Abigail and Pastor Frank speaking to one another, so Rosemary comes up with different ways to bring them back together. However, this doesn't
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Proctors’ care about Elizabeth wants John to go to court to tell how Abigail and the girls were lying. Afraid of Abigail telling on the affair, John Proctor is very hesitant to go to Salem. After Elizabeth tells John to hurry up and decide whether he is going into town, “I have good reason to think before I charge fraud upon Abigail…” (Miller, 194). Proctor decides that trying to save Rebecca Nurse and the others will only lead to Abigail ruining his name. Proctor, after being left amuck at the whole
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like wildfire when a group of young girls, led by a seventeen year old named Abigail, stir up some trouble. Hysteria takes place all throughout the story and we can see that it is an important aspect of the play. In Act 1 we see hysteria when Mr. Hale questions Abigail about what they were doing dancing in the woods. Abigail doesn’t want to get in trouble so she takes the easy way out and blames Tituba. “Abigail: She made me do it! She made Betty do it!”(Page 43) As Hale questions her,
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constantly haunted by his past sins with Abigail Williams, and does not feel forgiven until the end of the story when he talks with his wife before his death. John goes to court to save his wife but is accused of witchcraft, placed in a prison, and given the choice to hang or confess. He originally confesses but, when told his confession will be posted on the church, tears it in half. He does this because he finally feels forgiven of his sins with Abigail, and he knows that if he confesses his name
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and get others killed for their wrong doing. The play has three characters that are responsible for the trials in Salem, Abigail, Samuel Parris and Judge Danforth because of Abigail telling about others, Danforth wouldn’t come to believe what the people were saying who were right and hearing the ones that are wrong, lately Parris would lie only to keep his lying niece safe. Abigail is a seventeen year old niece of Parris and is one of the three people responsible because of the way she told lies about
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something to save his wife. The only thing that the can do to prove that his wife is not a witch by telling the truth about his adultery with Abigail. In the court, John Proctor state that “On the last night of my joy, some eight months ago. She uses to serve me in my house.” and “she thinks to dance with me on my wife graves” (Pg 1309). This mean Abigail will do anything to his wife to die, so she can be with
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Once people found out why she was talking and conjuring the devil, it created a widespread of attention. Abigail wanted John Proctor's attention and she was willing to do anything to receive it. The terrorist attacks in the United States are also acts for attention. People cause disastrous scenes due to wanting attention. These inhumane people that ask for this
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