their personalities advance throughout the story. Three characters that go through an influential and drastic change in the beginning half of the play are Mary Warren‚ John Proctor and Reverend Parris. Overall‚ although most of the characters in the story had a slight conversion‚ certain characters’ changes overshadowed others. To begin‚ Mary Warren is initially a poor treated servant in the Proctor household who is very timid‚ demure and easily
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name to Danforth. Hale is trying to relieve Giles of as much trouble as he can‚ Danforth responds by saying there is a‚” moving plot to topple Christ in the country!” 10. Danforth suggests that a “way out” for the girls when he says that he can kill Mary if she is lying or‚ if she is telling the truth‚ they should‚” drop your guile and confess your pretense‚ for a quick confession will go easier with
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is in the court she pretends with all the other girls following her lead that the devil makes them faint or fear someone. She then lied about how Elizabeth Proctor used her doll to stab Abigail in the stomach which was not true at all. “They accuse Mary of bewitching them with a cold
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Topic 5 Everybody has been blamed for something they are not the only reason that happened like it did. This exact situation happened in the play The Crucible. Abigail Williams is a girl in the play. She is responsible for the blaming that started the witch trials in The Crucible. The person who is at fault in condemning the people to death is Judge Danforth. Abigail is the reason that the mess of the witch trials got started in The Crucible. In the first act of the play after Tituba confessed
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she was good and pure she held the power in the town by threating the girls and threatening a weary and good man John Proctor. She even at a meeting to get back at her ex affair with John Proctor stabbed herself while watching Elizabeth’s servant ‚Mary‚ sow a poppet for her mistress then accused Elizabeth of witch craft. "Obsessed‚ or Obsession" means‚ according to Google is to" Preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually‚ intrusively‚ and to a
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Miller’s Reasoning on Writing the Crucible Both The Crucible and the McCarthy era were similar because Miller used the Salem Witch Trials of the Crucible to parallel what occurred during the McCarthy era. Miller was one of several writers that were blacklisted during the McCarthy time so he experienced being wrongfully accused of something‚ and he had no way to overcome the accusations. Miller wrote the Crucible to indirectly describe the events that were happening in the 1950’s‚ by showing the
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In The Crucible many characters throughout the play have internal and external conflicts. Many characters had changed during the play‚ but there was one character who experienced both conflicts that affected her greatly. Abigail Williams was a very important character in the story; she had many conflicts internally and externally. One external conflict she experienced which changed her was the conflict between John and Elizabeth Proctor. The conflict starts when Abigail and John have an affair‚ and
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present throughout the play to set up the coming of a sinister act. Darkness presents itself in The Crucible to expose the evil through Abigail or through an evil spirit. In the play‚ darkness is also used to describe evil spirits. Mercy Lewis asks Mary if she “. . . send[s] this shadow on [her]” (Miller 101). In this quote darkness is used as the presence of a demon. Hale talks about the “. . . powers of the dark gathered in monstrous attack upon the village” (Miller 61). Once again the theme of
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When the Crucible was set in 1692‚ many actions that people did and the words they said lead to conflict between them which builds throughout the scene to a dramatic point which then leads to tension during the play between the characters and then leads to tension in the audience. The main characters that illustrate tension are John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor (husband and wife) as they are both in an awkward position as John’s actions in the past had affected Elizabeth and still did in this moment
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and tried to prove his skills to the black guys that were playing. He soon gained respect from them. While he was here many people were thinking about him. He received many letters from people back at home including: his mother‚ family doctor‚ and Anne Marie (the cutest girl in David
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