start of the play, Proctor feels so guilty because of the fact that he had this affair with Abigail Williams. It haunts him and makes him think very poorly of himself. By the end of the play, though, he is able to regain a positive self-image. He gets to the point where he feels good enough that he is willing to die to protect his good name. John Proctor Committed an awful sin. The sin of adultery with Abigail Williams. Abby was a servant in John’s house for a while. Elizabeth Proctor (John’s Wife)
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Imagine people being wrongly justified for false accusations that you told. Would you feel bad about it and confess that you lied or would you let the person be charged? You have now started a lethal trend. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne have similar and different characteristics. Both dramas discuss sinful adultery, steamy romance, and deadly confessions. To start off, The Crucible has attributes like adultery, hidden romance, and toxic confessions
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People can experience many moments and changes in their life that drastically change the way they think or act. Elizabeth Proctor experiences this sort of change throughout Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. She is very cold when we first see her in the play and changes to be much more open by the end. Moments when she changes happen all throughout the play, but a majority of it is not shown until act 4. However, she does have a few specific moments where you can really see the change in her character
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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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Miller identity is influenced by social and cultural mores in a variety of different ways. John Proctor and Abigail Williams and examples how social and cultural mores of the time affect the characters within the crucible. John Proctor one of the major characters in the play is a good guy who is honest with one thing that will haunt him that was a big mistake. He had an afar with abigail Williams. John realizes that the only way he can stop abigail’s crazy rampage through there towns to confesses
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While there are many people to blame for the salem witch trials, Judge Danforth, Tituba, and Abigail Williams are the most guilty for causing the trials. Judge Danforth was one person to blame for what happened in Salem. He was the main judge for deciding if the people are guilty of witchery. Danforth had a huge influence on the townspeople he put them on trial and forced them to admit the worshipping of Satan when they were innocent. Danforth is guilty of believing complete lies, pressuring people
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began, In the crucible there a lot of fear. From all the lies people start saying and then they end up believing the lies they have told. Like John Proctor one of the character from the crucible show fear. Proctor have been in a secret romance with Abigail Williams and he is scared that people with find out. If people start to find out then his reputation will get ruined, and
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Murder of goody Putnam’s babies. 34. To arrest Elizabeth 35. That Elizabeth stuck a needle in the doll which was connected to Abigail, and the reasons for her stomach pain. 36. She will tell the court they had an affair. 37. She’s afraid of Abigail. *Act Three* 38. They want to save their wives. 39. That it is mischief. 40. That they all lied. 41. They let her live for one year, until she has the baby. 42. That the ladies accused
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we stayed in the waiting room while the adults left to see my grandfather. Jacob, the oldest, was 12 and tried to keep us all together while having a conversation with Ezra who was nine years old. Emily and I were seven and six. I looked down at Abigail,
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prominent sin being his affair with Abigail. The audience is made aware of Proctor’s lingering feelings when he admits “I may have looked”, the use of the hedging “may” amplifies how Proctor’s guilt does not only come from the destruction of his marriage with Elizabeth but also because of his constant feelings for Abigail. These feelings are further reinforced from Abigail’s “and you must”, the use of the stronger, more imposing word “must” then enforces how Abigail is willing to give herself to Proctor
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