Innocent Elizabeth Proctor was proven innocent‚ but she is not what everyone thinks she is. Elizabeth is the catalyst of the trials because of her relationship with Abigail Williams and how Elizabeth treated her husband. John Proctor has fights in which Elizabeth starts that make her look bad. She also had acted very poorly to Abigail after her affair with John that kick started a lot of events that lead to the trials. “I know you clutched my back” (Miller 14).Elizabeth proctor is the catalyst of
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remember about you when others talk about you. John Proctors attitude about his reputation is revealed when he is conflicted about lying. In the final scene of the play‚ Proctor’s conflict is he must decide what more important his reputation or his life. His choices are Danforth wants him to confess to witchcraft in order to be removed from prison. (Miller Act 3) When it is explained to him that he must sign a confession‚ Proctor hesitates. (Miller 211) Proctors choices relates to the importance of his
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could find witchcraft but he help out a little bit.secondly throughout the book the start to shut him up and not believe him when he is actually saying the truth about what is really happening.they pretty much shut him up when he tries to save john proctor life.also he just quit trying to help so he did silence his own voice in the book after he had to sigh 18 death warrant to hang the people that did not confess of witchcraft when ask cause the where not guilty but they did not believe them.So the
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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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did not commit the crime. The first Central idea that stuck out was‚ false accusations and false judgement just to obtain power. Specifically‚ Abigail is blaming John Proctor’s wife for witchery because Abigail needs Elizabeth gone so Abigail can have John Proctor. In the play‚ it presents us a scene between Cheever and John Proctor‚ and it presents us with these quotes‚”
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(Miller 1197). After that he storms out of the court and quits (Miller 1213). At the end he tries to help convince Danforth that the girls are lying to save Proctor. In Act 2‚ Hale goes to the Proctor household because he suspects the Proctor’s of witchcraft‚ but when people from the court come with a warrant for Elizabeth Hale tells Proctor that the court will not charge her since she is innocent and he will testify to make sure she is set free. In Act 3‚ Hale blames the court for not thoroughly
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similar to Governor Danforth and the Salem Witchcraft Trials are both being fueled by propaganda and misinformation. In his play he changes the hangings of three important names in the town Rebecca Nurse‚ Martha Corey‚ and John Proctor to all hang in at one date‚ and he also changes John Proctor’s life details. He used Salem as his example to show how in the Red Scare they were doing
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basis of this book is. Arthur miller developed this theme throughout the book by accumulating characters with this quality. There are many characters in this book‚ but the ones that convey these qualities are‚ Reverend Parris‚ Abigail along with John Proctor. Miller uses Parris‚ in the first act‚ to demonstrate the theme of having great reputation and integrity. Reputation can be a great deal to some and not that great of a deal to others. Parris‚ the minister of the church‚ has a great reputation
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society. In The Crucible‚ John Proctor is a highly respected and strong man in society‚ but his few weaknesses bring him to a screeching halt and to his own death. Willy Loman‚ the protagonist in Death of a Salesman‚ is a vital father figure that again accompanies many weaknesses leading to his unhappy death. Both characters have exceptionally similar but also different lives. John Proctor and his name in Salam is vitally important to him and his love for the Proctor family. Proctor says‚ “Because it is
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Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams are two main characters in Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible. Abigail Williams was once the servant for Proctor however Elizabeth Proctor fires her after she learns about Abigail and her husband’s affair. Both women are same in some ways but they have different motives. One of the similarities they have is that both love John Proctor but in different ways. Elizabeth loves him truly and for all the right reasons. He is her husband and they share their lives
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