Elizabeth Proctor was an important part of the Salem Witch Trials. She was accused along with John Proctor‚ Abigail Hobbs‚ Mary Warren‚ Elizabeth Howe‚ and many others. Her story is only part of the long history told. She was convicted of doing witchcraft and was able to avoid execution longer than most were able to. Elizabeth Proctor was John Proctors third wife they were married 18 years and they were running the well known family tavern. Elizabeth Proctor was first seen as a witch when Mary Warren
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characters‚ dynamic and static characters or ones who change and ones who stay the same. In “The Crucible” the biggest dynamic character is John Proctor. Another dynamic character was Reverend Hale. To me‚ Abigail Williams was a static character; she remained the same throughout the entire story. For instance‚ in the beginning of the play‚ John Proctor is not an honest man. It is implied in the beginning that he is having an affair with Abigail Williams when he says “I may have thought softly of
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were doing was malicious. She tells him‚ “I would never hurt Betty‚ I love her dearly” (Miller 9). Later‚ when Betty begins to wake up and starts telling the truth about what happened in the woods‚ that Abigail had drunk blood in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor‚ Abigail tries to shut her up. She smashes her across the face‚ and yells‚ “Shut it! Now shut it!” (Miller 18). Another example of her lies to her uncle is again when he questions her about what happened that night in the forest. He is certain
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very clearly at the beginning after Abigail drank the blood or as the girls called it “a charm” to kill John Proctors wife. This plays into the girls when Abigail threatens with violence the girls on lying about what they really did. For the cover-up story they stated that it was in fact Tituba who was doing conjuring. This whole plot was done by Abigail to get revenge on Elizabeth Proctor and it terms could be taken as Abigail
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Crucible” began with a group of girls‚led by Abigail Williams‚getting caught dancing naked in the forest‚ presumably performing witchcraft. The townspeople were all in paranoia and convicting women of witchcraft‚one of the convicted women is Elizabeth Proctor‚the wife of the protagonist John Proctor.Arthur Miller shows how fear can lead to blame through the wavering‚timid‚ and dishonest nature of Mary Warren‚who is John Proctor’s servant. Through Mary Warren’s wavering nature the author shows
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very antithesis of the Puritan people of Salem. They are religious‚ she is not. They have to repress their desires‚ with a creed that “forbade anything resembling a theatre or ‘vain enjoyment’”‚ and she does not. She goes on to try to seduce John Proctor‚ having had an affair with him before. I get the impression that she is a very dissembling person. One moment‚ she can be very innocent and the next‚ she can be very aggressive and manipulative. When talking to her uncle Parris‚ she pretends to
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elaborate lies to gain praise and get out of trouble. She also is able to manipulate those around her to get her way. Finally‚ she had an affair with John Proctor that sparked her hate for Elizabeth Proctor. Her jealousy of Elizabeth was the reason they began conjuring spirits in the beginning. Abigail’s lies‚ manipulative ways‚ and her affair with John Proctor were the star of the play and are the reasons why she is the most interesting
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him to judge me because I was made to do something that I did not want to do. The reason that Abigail made us do this was because she wanted to be with John Proctor. She thought that if she got everyone to be accused of having witchcraft and dealing with the devil‚ Elizabeth Proctor would have been accused and hung and she would have John Proctor. She only wants to marry him because he slept with her. She is a selfish‚ cold-hearted girl. She is the one that should be hung. The
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with one of the three things. Abigail and Proctor’s relationship was based on jealousy of Elizabeth. “John-I am waitin’ for you every night” said Abigail. That shows that she wasn’t willing to give him up even when he explained he wanted to be with his wife. Than Betty says “You did‚ you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!” Abigail wants Goody Proctor dead so he would go back to her. She was willing to do anything to make herself better. Selfishness
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other girls. When all the girls were in the forest with Tituba she whispered to her that she wanted to sacrifice her turkey so she can kill John Proctor’s wife‚ Elizabeth and be with John. When Tituba told her no‚ she smashed the turkey’s head and drank its blood hoping to kill her. The next day‚ when the girls are acting funny and John Proctor hears about it and comes into town‚ she sees him at her house. This is when it shows how crazy she is about him. She follows him outside when he is about to leave
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