In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, innocent people are hung because the citizens of Salem avidly protect or improve their reputation. John Proctor displayed his blackened, but courageous reputation through sinful actions and sharp witted words during exchanges of towns members about witchcraft. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, innocent people are hanged because the citizens of Salem avidly protect or improve their reputation. In the early pages of the book, Thomas Putnam subtly accuses Proctor of
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Reputations Witchcraft is a cruel and impacting subject throughout our history. Suppose that one individual is accused of witchcraft or someone says they have been haunted by another's spirit, they are hung and put to death. For a numerous number of people, this is an alarming subject to have to come across. The play called The Crucible, presents how witchcraft has affected many adults and children's reputations in the past. One may say Abigail Williams and John Proctor's reputations were harmed
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Cali Van Moorlehem P.2 Most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria In The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller explains to us about how the witchcraft hysteria which causes people in Salem MA. to start freaking out when they have evil spirits around them. When Abby starts to blame Tituba for taking all the girls into the woods and makes
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Within the confines of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, many of the conflicts—including the more indirect conflict of John Proctor and Reverend Hale—hinge upon the theme of the importance of reputation. In a time when ones good reputation is the cornerstone for a content, healthy existence, it makes sense that reputation is an important recurring theme in The Crucible. John Proctor’s reputation is built upon his willingness to argue for what he thinks is right while managing to stay just this side
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is a group of mysterious and troublesome teenage girls. Abigail Williams is looked at as the leader of this group. Abby is obsessed with John Proctor, who is married to Elizabeth Proctor. He consumes her mind and most of her decisions revolve around him. Since Abby is motivated by her love for John, her decisions to send Elizabeth to jail creates many complicated accusations by the end of the play. Abby would do anything to be with John, including trying to kill his wife, Goody Proctor. In Act I
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Joe McCarthy, people were afraid of him because they would be accused of communism. Abigail was the parallel to Senator McCarthy, but John Proctor had stood up to her and had been accused of witchcraft. Both Proctor and his wife were accused but Elizabeth was fortunately saved from being hanged. John was not so lucky, he was later hanged on false
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Abigail and the Crucible Throughout the crucible, the whole point of the story is to prove whether witchcraft is actually taking place, or if Abigail is just full of absolute lies. Abigail Williams was not the nicest of them all, but sometimes it seemed like she truly cared. In this situation, Abigail was absolutely a victim of her society because witchcraft was an excuse to show her mischievous behavior. It seemed as though Abigail was favored through the play. Abigail was a young girl who knew
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manipulative and wants everything to go her way. She is around 17 years old. She started out as The Proctors helper but then was fired by Mrs. Proctor because she thought Abby and Mr. Proctor were secretly getting together. It was Elizabeth Proctor's arbitrate to send Abby off. Elizabeth makes it ascertain as possible that she didn’t do any witchcraft. The girls were unintelligible. For several motivations, Abigail Williams used the power through false witchcraft accusations to feed her infatuation for John
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Trepidation, or fear is an enormous emotional contributor to why people conform in society, for they may not want to cause any trouble or have their reputation ruined. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, fear is definitely relevant amongst the people in Salem. The girls that are in Abigail’s group have to always obey her with every order she gives them, or they would be on her bad side, which is a big deal. Betty tells Abby that, “[she] drank blood, Abby! [She] didn’t tell him that!” Abby responds to
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when you leaped out of the bushes suddenly, Betty was frightened and the she fainted. And there’s the whole of it.”(Miller page 1130). Abigail lies to her uncle because what she really did in the woods was drink blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail wants to kill Elizabeth because she has had an affair with Elizabeth’s husband John Proctor so she can be with him. In fear of getting in trouble for what she did Abigail threatens the other girls that where with her in the woods if they don’t support
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