way he realizes that he has already committed the crime of adultery with Abigail by saying "my honesty is broke," and he does not think so confidently of himself anymore because of the incident. He then thinks that it is too late to change anything so being a sinner means nothing to him anymore, it is his fault and he acknowledges it. Proctor had to make a difficult decision, while he was confessing he tried to cast out Abigail. He proclaims "A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know
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this is true and in others, it is not. In the case of the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the movie was arguably better than the book based on changes made to the relationships, settings, and plot in the movie that were not found in the play. Abigail and John Proctor’s relationship was a larger and more frequent piece of the movie than it was in the play. In the play the only speak briefly of their affair and the two do not interact together specifically regarding their relationship again until
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Hale lets others around him, such as Abigail, manipulate him into making wrong decisions. When Hale arrives to Salem, he is overwhelmed with false accusations and evidence from Abigail and other girls who do and say whatever Abigail tells them to. The pressure from the town to diagnose witchcraft gets in Hale’s head and causes him to take the false evidence and accusations as the truth without conducting an investigation into it. Hale later realizes Abigail is a fraud
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Proctor is known to be an upstanding member of the village, but he has some flaws. He had an affair with Abigail Williams, and he didn’t want the Puritans of Salem to know about it. Proctor was embarrassed about the situation and he wanted his wife and Abigail to forget about it. He wanted everyone in the village to continue to think of him as a good man. When trying to save his wife from being killed, he ended up getting questioned
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In the beginning Abigail was intimidating and believable. She was the leader of the girls and they did anything she told them to do. They only went along with the lies because Abigail told them to. She threatened to kill them if they said anything other than what she had told them to say. At the beginning of the play and story she was believable, throughout the movie everyone believed even though some knew she was lying. They didn’t want to say anything because they knew she was going to
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does have one big flaw, his lust for Abigail. Things don't end well for John at the end of the story, which is why he is the perfect tragic hero. John Proctor is a farmer in Salem, and throughout the story, he seems like the good guy. In the beginning, he was the villain. John Proctor is abusive to his servant Mary, distant and judgmental to his wife, and has an affair with Abigail while married. That's not the case. John was the only one who knew that Abigail was dancing in the woods, even though
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The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are two literary classics that portray excellence in expounding the importance of life. Both written works encompass striking similarities in aspects such as the setting, plot, and major conflicts. However, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible bare conspicuous differences such as in The Scarlet Letter solid evidence for the crime of adultery is distinctly manifested while in The Crucible the court possesses no tangible evidence for the crime of witchcraft. In addition
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but reputation is as well. Keeping a good reputation is more important than doing the right thing. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is about a group of young girls that is seen dancing in the woods, and suspected of doing witchcraft. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, had an affair with a married man, John Proctor. She wants his wife, Elizabeth, dead so she can have John all to herself. The girls go crazy accusing many people of witchcraft, spreading hysteria through the town. The judges, including Judge
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The doctor had not the slightest idea of why Betty would not wake up, and due to this, the town spreads a rumor that witchcraft had caused Betty to fall into the coma. Parris finds out about this, and he immediately recalls when he found her and Abigail in the woods. If the townspeople were to find out that she was dancing in the woods, they would deem her a witch, and that would surely taint his status among the town. His attention shifts from his ill daughter to figuring out ways to keep his daughter
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Judy, I couldn’t agree more with you! You are spot on about the gender lens and marxist lens in Act II! Elizabeth Proctor is overall a very submissive and feminine character. But there's times where she can show a masculine side to herself. Like when she spoke out and discussed her disbelief in witches in front of Hale. That took a lot of courage knowing the situation she could of placed herself in if she was thought to live up to Abigail's accusation. And we know at that time anything you say that
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