act of adultery with Abigail Williams, which haunted him daily. This slip of moral judgment constituted Proctor as a tragic hero. Proctor was a tragic hero because he made a flaw of judgment, his anagnorisis, and his unfair punishment. John Proctor betrayed his wife, a fact that bothered his conscience
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I have taken account of others who would've also ended the mass hysteria in Salem and those who I believe could have performed these actions are Abigail Williams and John Proctor, my reasoning for this is, that Abigail Williams could have confessed to the affair when she was summoned to court but decided to lie and she could have confessed to seeing Mary Warren when she made the poppet but instead chose to lie again despite being
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individuals were actually guilty of the crime.” (Shoop Editorial Team). One of the occasions that the theme of reputation took place was in the very beginning of the play. In act 1, when Reverend Parris caught his daughter Betty and his niece Abigail dancing in the woods, he was worried about what the other people in the town were going to think. He was anxious to discover what the people of Salem were going to say about him when they discovered that his daughter and niece might have possibly
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economic incidence for consumers is $2x(18) = $36. For producers, it is $3x(18) = $54. (F) demand more elastic therefore the burden on consumers is less. 4. The per unit price of apples and oranges is initially $0.25. Sketch the budget line for Abigail, who plans to spend $6 on some combination of apples and oranges. Add an indifference curve assuming her optimal combination is 14 oranges and 10 apples. Suppose a $0.35 per unit tax is imposed on apples and assume the supply of apples is perfectly
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Proctor is a strong bond. Even though John Proctor had cheated on her with Abigail, Elizabeth still forgives him. But there are a few rough patches in the relationship; like the lack of trust. But Elizabeth loves John Proctor so much that she lies in court to prevent John’s name being tarnished, but this lie inevitably ends up killing John Proctor. In the beginning of the play John speaks about Elizabeth once to Abigail. Abby has said that Elizabeth was a cold and sickly wife. John says to her that
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worship carried out by a group of female teens. In the play, the group of accusing teens is led by girl named Abigail Williams. In order to refocus the “heat” on another source in order to save herself from trouble, her and her peers wrongfully stage a phenomenon of witchcraft in Salem, producing mass panic in the community for months on end. It got so bad in fact, that at one point Abigail implied that even the official court judges could be guilty of wicked doings; “Let you beware, Mr. Danforth.
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gained power and didn’t use it for good. Power can mean a lot of things over the lives in Salem, over the lives in Arthur Miller’s time, and over the lives of people today. Many characters in the play had their chance of great power. For example Abigail, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth. Even John Proctor had a chance of his own; when he admitted that he and Abby had an affair. The first one who gains,
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when they danced naked in the forest. According to Pyle (2007), “it is in the repressive atmosphere that Abigail rebels — by having an affair, by dancing naked in the woods, by experimenting with witchcraft (…) it is the rebellion of Abigail, Betty, and their friends that set the tragic events in motion.” In Act 1 of Miller’s play, Mary Warren, one of the girls who danced in the woods with Abigail, was desperate after she heard the villagers were suspecting them of witchcraft and said, "What'll
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lives to see their families strive. In both stories, the tragic heroes had affairs. Willy Loman had an affair with “The Woman” and John Proctor has an affair with Abigail Williams. They had both felt extremely guilty about the affair. Willy even says he tried to make it up to Linda. John confessed to Elizabeth about his affair and when Abigail tried to “make love” to him, he pushed her away and said he was done with her. This is important because it shows that these two characters have remorse for their
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affair with Abigail Williams, while she was employed in his home. Proctor thought that his affair with Abigail irreparably crushed everything he had in the perspective of God, his wife Elizabeth, and himself. Though he did surrender to sin and commit adultery, Proctor lacked the capability to forgive himself. This enlarged his reactions to Elizabeth’s lack of forgiveness and he often lashed out. “You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I
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