when she was questioned‚ she thought Abigail spoke of the affair. Therefore‚ she lied and said he didn’t have the affair. She lied to try and save her husband‚ but in the end‚ she made the situation worse. After that‚ John was accused of witchcraft by Mary and got arrested‚ all due to his wife’s lie. I also sacrificed a principle for a person I loved. I had a friend who lived in England with a bunch of family and health problems. He had cancer many times before we met(we
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work and results in one of the other girls getting sick. This is what leads up to the hysteria. Later she frames Goody Proctor with voodoo by using a doll she sees Mary knitting earlier that day‚ “... Let you ask Susanna Walcott-she saw me sewin’ it in court. Ask Abby‚ Abby sat beside me when I made it” (Miller 176). Abigail sees Mary put the needle into the doll and waits until later so she could stab herself and accuse Goody Proctor of witchcraft. When Cheever goes to the Proctors’ home to see
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structures of the human psyche‚ and explain why myths such as these bring us together socially and culturally. (2) In our culture today we still share many myths. My favorite American myth is the story of Bloody Mary. The story goes‚ as one of my friends told me years ago‚ that Bloody Mary was a witch that people were very scared of. One day‚ little girls
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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 most major voice that was silence in the book was reverend hales. The second voice that was silence was Mary Warrant the oldest
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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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