Elizabeth's Motive In The Crucible

The older generation has always feared and suspects the younger generation. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the knowledge of the older people has always suspected the younger people and most of the time they are right. In the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. A married man(John Proctor) have an affair with a young girl named Abigail Williams. Abigail still desires John but he doesn’t want anything to do with her anymore. Elizabeth Proctor wants John to denounce that Abigail’s a fraud. Mary Warren, the Proctor’s servant and one of Abigail’s circles, returns from Salem with news that Elizabeth has been accused of witchcraft but the court did not pursue the accusation. Proctor later confesses his affair with Abigail
Elizabeth cares and values her marriage. In court when Danforth asked Elizabeth did John ever been unfaithful to their marriage, she lies and says no when she knows he had an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth believes and she favors from God. In Act II, when Hale asked Elizabeth did she know all her Commandments, she replied without any hesitation “I surely do. There is no mark of blame upon my life, Mr. Hale. I am a covenanted Christian woman.” She happily knows all of her commandments and she shows no hesitation that she does. Abigail Williams is a seventeen year old orphan, who cares more about herself than others and she values John Proctor. All throughout this book Abigail was doing multiple selfish things, trying to avoid herself getting into trouble. She lied about her and a group of girls practicing witchcraft in the forest. She also never told that she drunk blood in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth Proctor, said “I think she see another meaning in that blush.” Elizabeth knows that Abigail has something more like a special feeling about John
Overall, Elizabeth is a blameless victim. The only sin we see her commit is when she lies in court, saying that John and Abigail's affair never happened. This is supposedly the only time she's ever lied in her life. Unfortunately, this is really bad timing. Though she lies in an attempt to protect her husband, it actually ends up damning him. Abigail is the exact opposite of Elizabeth. Abigail represents the repressed desires — sexual and material — that all of the Puritans possess. The difference is that Abigail does not suppress her desires. As you can see Arthur Miller wanted Elizabeth Proctor to be the heroine of the