Dear Diary‚ Sinning is bad‚ definitely not allowed here in Salem. Well‚ I have committed a very bad sin a couple of days ago. John Proctor‚ a married man. I should be very sorry for this sin I had committed and regret it‚ but I just can’t. I love John Proctor‚ and I know he loves me‚ deep down in his heart. Who has asked me to meet him at the barn? John Proctor. Why else would he do it if he hadn’t loved me? September 1st was when it had first happened. While working at the Proctor home for about
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the Proctor family and Abigail williams‚ a typical man vs man conflict‚ develops the significance of The Crucible through the influence that Abigail’s actions have on the downfall of her relationship with the Proctors. Most notably‚ Abigail’s affair with John Proctor‚ her boss of the time‚ sparks a major change that shapes the rest of the play. Suspicions from Elizabeth about this affair result in Abigail’s termination as the Proctor servant. Resentful of Elizabeth‚ Abigail acts on her jealousy‚ causing
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Abigail’s Conscience I can’t believe all of this has happened. I feel so guilty‚ but I don’t really care‚ I know I’m more important than any of those old people. Besides‚ John Proctor deserved it! How dare he use me just because he was lonely and having marital problems! I had all the rights to destroy his marriage. However‚ I can’t help but feeling awful when I think about those two boys that have no father anymore. Its all my fault! I started this nonsense of witchcraft just because I was scared
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Rough Draft Abigail Williams‚ the silent devil of Salem who destroyed the lives of many. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that‚ in 1692‚ led to the Salem Witch Trials‚ a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Abigail Williams was a main source for the cause of the Salem witch trials for many reasons such as‚ her false accusations‚ her thirst for
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tunnel might have‚ it finally ends abruptly‚ and light‚ that is to say truth and virtue‚ prevails. That is what seems to happen in the plays Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ and The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams is a main character in The Crucible who seems to follow the advice that Lady Macbeth gave his husband regarding how to lie. Abigail actually look[s] like the innocent flower‚ for she is a young girl whom nobody seems to mistrust‚ and everybody refers to her and her friends as the
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Dear Diary‚ Today has been the strangest day of my life. I don’t even know where to begin. Everything I thought I knew has been turned upside down‚ and I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of secrets and lies. Mrs. Coulter‚ who I once admired and trusted‚ has shown her true colors‚ and they are darker than the night sky. When I first heard about the concept of dust‚ I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Dust‚ the mysterious substance that adults are so afraid of‚ the same substance that seems to be at
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Dear Diary‚ Though this is a treacherous sin I am making‚ I must find a way to clear the thoughts and images that reappear constantly in my consciousness. Today something quite horribly interesting happened in our small town‚ Salem. After our midnight dance with the girls‚ Uncle Parris found us in the woods making all of us scatter immediately. All of us except Betty who collapsed on the ground. She was screaming about how she could not move. Uncle Parris’ face was nothing like I have ever seen
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Do you think that Abigail Williams was chiefly responsible for the Salem witch trials? If not who else was to blame? Life in Salem was very restrictive for any one‚ any variations of having fun were a sign of the devils work‚ like dancing. So the villagers were very serious in all matters. For example if verbal threats or curses came true‚ it was seen as the devils influence. They also had a wearied way of judging people. If somebody confessed to seeing the devil and wanted to be blessed by God
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Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ a series on witch trials occur that creates mass hysteria in the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. Abigail Williams‚ one of the main characters‚ fabricates the lies that begin the witch hunt in her attempt to divert everyone’s attention towards her including the attention of John Proctor. In the play‚ Proctor has an affair with young Abigail while his wife goes through postpartum depression causing Abigail to fall in love with him but John returns to his wife
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Leading a multitude of people to find the "truth" about a village’s most respected townspeople is Abigail Williams. She was the finger that accused dozens of people‚ who in all likelihood were innocent of the crimes brought against them. Abigail was not the single candle that showed the judges of Salem the way but merely the candle that lit the others. Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" makes Abigail the conveyance of everything the Puritans would have thought as evil. She had committed sins that
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