hangin’ if they’ll not confess, John. The towns gone wild, I think. She speak of Abigail, and I thought she were a saint, to hear her. Abigail brings the other girls into the court and when she walks the crowd will part like the sea of Israel. And folks are brought before them, and if they scream and howl and fall to the floor-- the persons clapped in the jail for bewitchin’ them” (52,53). Elizabeth tells us how Abigail influences the crowd and how she receives support from the court and the crowd
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and, for the Puritans, being known as a religious person. Someone without a good name in the community would be rejected, and avoided by all other townspeople. This is noted in The Crucible, where characters like John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Abigail went at great lengths to keep their reputations pure. But, is reputation, how other people see you, more important than integrity, how you see yourself? The Crucible’s protagonist, John Proctor, is a perfect example of how keeping one’s good name
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selfish desire is used as a powerful theme personified by many of the characters in his work, the Crucible. However, it’s regularly overlooked as a material issue rather than its deeper meaning. For Abigail Williams, Thomas Putnam, and Reverend Parris, greed is a testament of what ails them at heart. Abigail Williams, the play’s obsessively lovestruck antagonist, has the conscience a psychopath, doing whatever it takes to hold onto one thing -- her brief affair with John Proctor. Abigail’s motivations
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order to stray from guilt and to make things right. Just like how John Proctor, A middle aged farmer In The Crucible by playwright Arthur Miller, confesses his sins in order to bring justice and make peace. In the play, John Proctor is connected with Abigail Williams, a teenage girl who is sought out to win Proctor for herself after committing lechery with him. His involvement with her leads him to have to make confessions which will influence him in many ways. Throughout the play John Proctor confesses
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accused. Accusing someone else is what Abigail did to Elizabeth and a bunch of other people, she didn’t want anything to be on her. Abigail did do things wrong though she slept with John Proctor. When John Proctor was still married to Goody Proctor. Abigail lied throughout the story, she had greed and selfishness. Abigail wanted Goody Proctor first name Elizabeth to die so she could marry John Proctor. She wished to “dance upon” Elizabeth’s grave.
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beginning of the play he cheated on his wife and struggles to win back her forgiveness he did everything he could, so he could gain redemption from her again. In the beginning of The Crucible John Proctor had an affair, the girl he had an affair with, Abigail, struggles to tell John that she still loves him and that they love each other,
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In The Crucible, Abigail is crazy. At the beginning she doesn’t seem as insane as she does by the end of the play, she just seems concerned about her and her friends being caught for “just dancing in the woods” and for her cousin, Betty, not waking up. As the play goes on her true personality shines through. She starts warning the girls that if they admit to anything that happened that night in the woods, she will come and hurt them in the middle of the night. She starts “seeing the devil” frequently
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nurture debate. The nature vs. nurture debate raises the question about whether human development is mostly based on behaviors which are inherited or those which originated from environmental influences. My sister’s two children, Taylor and Abigail are biological siblings who inherited their green eyes from their mother and their straight teeth from their father, but that is where their similarities end. The siblings are so unalike in looks and personality that at times it is hard to believe
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brought about in this play is the nature of authority. In The Crucible, many characters present various views of the nature of authority. There are three examples of this theme: The authority of the church over the lives of the villagers, the control Abigail has over the people who are accused of witchcraft and her friends in the trial, and the power of the judge over the trials. The first example of the nature of authority is the church’s power over the villagers’ lives. The church and the everyday
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way. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller expresses similar views about suspicion through the characterization of his characters. Abigail Williams represents the idea that words can destroy and cause suspicion. “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba! (42)” Abigail is denying calling the Devil with the girls in the woods and accusing Tituba of doing so. Abigail accusing Tituba makes the other girls start to
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