Abigail Williams is a very selfish‚ liar‚ and cunning character. She holds most of the responsibility for the groups of girls including Tituba meeting in the woods. Once Reverend Parris discovers them‚ Abigail attempts to conceal her behavior because it will eventually reveal her affair with John Proctor. Abigail is very selfish‚ she had an affair with Mr. John Proctor even though he is married. She states that she only wants john for herself. She also told john they could run away together‚ to be
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How does Miller present the relationship between Abigail and Proctor? In The Crucible‚ we follow the adulterous and turbulent relationship between Abigail Williams and John Proctor‚ and watch it change and develop throughout the play‚ from Abigail trying to reinstate the affair in Act 1‚ to John Proctor confessing and therefore destroying it at the end of the play. John Proctor is an honest‚ plain-speaking local farmer. He is an impressive presence in the room‚ being described as ‘a man in his
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Abigail Marsh talks about how some people are more altruistic than others. 20 years ago‚ a man saved her life‚ by putting his own life in danger. He ran across 4 lanes of freeway traffic‚ to bring her to safety after being in a car accident that could have killed her. The man was a total stranger‚ who took off after making sure she was okay – she never even got his name. Marsh wonders why he did so and started questioning why some people have a different level of altruism than others. Marsh became
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"500 years later" reflection “500 years later” is a documentary filmed the tragic and inequality treatment for African people after the slave trade. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ European colonists increasingly turned African slaves for labor to Caribbean and Europe. In the 200 years of slave trade‚ hundreds millions of African slaves were shipped to America‚ Caribbean and Europe. The Black inferiority and White supremacy is still dominate in the Western societies and it results
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In a letter written to her son‚ Abigail Adams effectively uses irony‚ parallelism‚ and allusion to advise her son that he is the only person who defines his future and he must learn how to push past adversity when it arises in his path to his future. Adams writes “If i had thought your reluctance arose from proper deliberation...I should have not urged you to have accompanied your Father and Brother when you appeared so averse the voyage.” (Lines 3-5) Adams acknowledges‚ through this quote‚ that
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Arthur Miller has developed Abigail throughought the play‚ accordingly‚ to suit her role: the young antagonist. As the play progresses we find that she is utterly ruthless and persistently egocentric in order to accomplish her intentions no matter how distressing the impact on others. She is the driving force and sole instigator of each traumatic event in the play. Miller swiftly introduces us to the ‘strikingly beautiful girl’ who has ‘an endless capacity for dissembling’. This already gives
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Power: A Compare and Contrast of Hester Prynne and Abigail Williams Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne were two very different characters in books about the same Puritan religion. The two had many differences and even a few ways they were alike. Their views on society and their reaction on how they reacted to the way they were treated by the Puritans. Hester feared society and thought that it was something to be avoided‚ while Abigail long to be the center of attention. While Hester attracted
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Organizational Behavior in the Case of the Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal OL-500 Human Behavior in Organization Southern New Hampshire University Dr. Doug Hood May15‚ 2014 In 2012‚ “former Penn State defensive coordinator Gerald “Jerry" Sandusky was found guilty of sexual abuse. He was accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period in a scandal that has rocked the university ’s community” (Chappell‚ 2012‚ para. 1). When the story of Jerry Sandusky broke to the press‚ the University
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Mr. Todd 12 September 2011 “A Word Is Only a Word” The word friend means exactly what it is‚ just a word. The pure substance behind the word no longer bares any true meaning and feeling behind it. I have learned to limit the use of the word and can only call a select few a true friend. Growing up I thought I was popular because I had so many friends. However little did I know that instead of calling these people friends‚ I should have substituted the word for acquaintances‚ or in the future
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The Crucible play has many characters‚ but how could one forget Abigail Williams? Abigail has the most influence over her friends and this is shown throughout the play. She is very proud and manipulative in any situation. Her character stands out and shows the readers how her character portrays the time period of the evil in the witch trials. Abigail Williams is not a victim of her society. She is very manipulative and has control over all her friends in the play. Abigail treats the girls very poorly
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