Abigail Adams was a important figure during the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. She helped start ideas about the equality among women. She was born November 11th 1744 in a time when women had poor educations. As she grew older‚ she became interested in more than just the basic “roles” of women. Abigail Adams made many contributions to the United States. Abigail Adams grew up like mot girls in her time. Abigail Adams‚ born Abigail Smith was born on November 11th‚ 1744 in Weymouth‚ Massachusetts
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Doctor said he could not help‚ He doesn’t know what medicine to use or give. Paris saw the girl dancing naked. 3) What do we learn in the exposition of the play about the events in the forest? About Abigail Williams’s past connections with the Proctor family? Abigail Williams put or wished for proctors wife to die. Abigail use to do service for the Procter’s household until she had an affair with john proctor. 4) What information about Thomas Putnam does Arthur Miller tell us in his expository
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Abigail Adams: Dear Abby If women could have been president‚ Abigail Adams would have been a great one. For example‚ she helped fight for civil rights. Abigail Adams developed an interest in reading and writing at a young age; upon her marriage to President John Adams and being pulled into the political society‚ her opinions began to evolve and later‚ through countless letters to her husband and children‚ became an influential figure during the American Revolution by advancing her ideas of equality
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discovering every cranny in his/her very being. 4. Once the characters are formed‚ the actors then begin to devise a lot of different improvisations to create their own world. – All the while having fundamental knowledge on the actual story‚ just how they will partake. In terms of when i was at this stage‚ the only thing i could work with were the given circumstances. 5. After step four‚ the actors are out of their zone and into the real world where they begin to test the personas they have created
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Abigail is fueled by her lust for John Proctor and her own selfishness‚ using the “devil” to further her self centered desire for power‚ and control in Salem‚ with that desire for John inciting her actions. What started as Abigail’s plan to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor‚ ended in what was bigger than Abigail could have imagined - the Salem witch trials. Abigail is a remorseless girl‚ who will do anything to get what she wants. Abigail lusts over John Proctor‚ a married man which turns the town into
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Hunter Toney Mrs. Lowry English 3 HN 18 March 2014 In my depiction‚ the events of the Salem Witch Trials were most responsible by Abigail Williams. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ Abigail demonstrated her malevolent ways by showing her lustful and violent characteristics‚ along with her personal vendetta against Elizabeth Proctor. These character flaws‚ in my opinion‚ were the driving force that started the events in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Her hatred for Elizabeth‚ and wanting her dead‚ was the reasoning
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Salem Possessed Salem Possessed is a novel that explores the social‚ economic‚ political‚ and geographical divisions within the Salem Village community. It is written as an attempt to understand the accusations of witchcraft in 1692. It is believed that the village of Salem is split into two factions: one interested in gaining more of a society based upon political independence and led by the Putnam family‚ and the other‚ interested in the mercantile and political life of the town being led by
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How Far is Too Far? Science is the driving force behind the growth of the human race. Without science our community would have stagnated completely. There would be no form of technology or even a basic understanding of how the human body works. While science is a vital source to human progression‚ a question arises; can science negatively impact the human race if its limits are pushed too far? Mary Shelley’s anti-Enlightenment book Frankenstein‚ paints a vivid picture of what may happen if
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celebrated American writers since his first books were released in the late 1860s‚ early 1870s. This quote has a very interesting realism and that makes it so true because if the people in the town of Salem heard this quote‚ they maybe would not have had to go through the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in 19 executions and 150 accusations of witchcraft. Arthur Millers is one of the greatest and most well known playwrights of the twentieth century bases many of his characters
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Miller’s play The Crucible‚ based on the Salem Witch Trials‚ the reader follows the atrocious actions of Abigail William in order to illustrate that actions have consequences‚ good or bad. In the beginning of The Crucible‚ Abigail‚ one of the girls that went around accusing people of being witches‚ had a stranglehold on the rest of the girls that danced with her at the forest. Abigail forced the girls “to tell them [they] danced” and that is all (Miller 147). Abigail experienced a minor consequence for
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