Reverend Parris‚ praying and weeping over his daughter‚ Betty‚ who has taken sick. Parris is a grim‚ stern man suffering from paranoia. He believes that the members of his congregation have formed a faction and are trying to get rid of him. PARRIS: Child. Sit you down. Now look you‚ child - if you trafficked with spirits in the forest‚ I must know it‚ for surely my enemies will‚ and they’ll ruin me with it… Abigail‚ do you understand that I have many enemies? ABIGAIL: I know it‚ Uncle. PARRIS: There
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leaving everyone else to clean up the mess and chaos she left behind her. Miller begins to show Abigail as an extremely controlling person. In the beginning of the play‚ Abigail gets caught dancing in the woods with the other girls by her uncle‚ Rev. Parris. When he sees the girls dancing and undressing‚ he is furious and begins to question witchcraft throughout the group of girls. Abigail does not want to be blamed for any sort of witchcraft ideas‚ so she begins to accuse many other innocent people
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The Witch Trials brought out everyone’s inner greed‚ jealously and the revenge they yearn to seek. Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are in constant conflict over John Proctor throughout the play. There is evidence of this conflict when Betty Parris says‚ "You did‚ you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctors’ wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!"1 This shows hows there is some inner jealousy involving Abigail’s feelings towards Elizabeth and her relationship with John. Abigail
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why Reverend Hale has been allowed in the prison. They discover that Parris has allowed it and so they send for him. They discuss how Parris has seemed rather unstable lately. When he enters‚ they discover that Hale has been trying to convince Rebecca Nurse to save herself by confessing. They ask Parris why he has been troubled and it is revealed that Abigail has vanished with Mercy Lewis having taken every cent he had. Parris attempts to convince the men to stop the hangings‚ realizing that it has
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What is the irony in that statement? 2. Explain how the witch-hunt years were a time of "general revenge." 3. Identify Tituba‚ Abigail‚ and Betty. 4. Why does Mrs. Putnam believe there are witches in Salem? 5. Why is Thomas Putnam bitter? 6. Parris says‚ "Oh‚ Abigail‚ what proper payment for my charity! Now I am undone!" What does that mean? 7. What is Mary ’s argument to Abby? 8. Describe Proctor. 9. What happened between Abigail and John Proctor prior to the opening of the play? 10. What
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live in 1600 Salem during the witch trials. Abigail Williams is desperately in love with John Proctor; who committed the sin of lechery with her. Abigail then uses her uncle‚ Reverend Parris’ servant‚ Tituba to perform the crime of witchcraft so she can fulfil her lustful dream of having John Proctor to herself. Parris catches Abby‚ Mary Warren; who is the servant to John Proctor‚ Tituba‚ and many of the other teenage girls in the village dancing naked in the woods. He ultimately catches them in the
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Hysteria‚ It’s a powerful thing really. In the midst of a crisis this could really cause trouble. After all people can’t think straight when something goes wrong‚ it’s human nature to assume things rather than to rationally think. Humans are very social beings and they will follow anyone who they think is correct. It doesn’t take much for someone to blindly trust those who say they are doing good. The problem with this is that many of those they trust know what they want‚ and that thing is power
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that! You did‚ you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" Significance of event: It all started from Abigail and her greed to win over John Proctor’s heart once again. Setting (time/place): Rev. Parris’ House‚ upstairs‚ in Betty’s bedroom Characterization: Betty is feeling lost because she just woke up from her "spell." saying she wants her mama and pretending like she’s flying outside her window. Abigail is furious at the moment meaning she
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reappear constantly in my consciousness. Today something quite horribly interesting happened in our small town‚ Salem. After our midnight dance with the girls‚ Uncle Parris found us in the woods making all of us scatter immediately. All of us except Betty who collapsed on the ground. She was screaming about how she could not move. Uncle Parris’ face was nothing like I have ever seen before. His face was bright red and looked shocked. He started yelling and screaming at us‚ but Betty still did not move
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resorts to threatening the others. She accuses countless women and men of witchcraft to maintain her image of “doing God’s work” as the Reverends niece. Once it is suspected that Betty is being possessed‚ Rev. Parris calls in Rev. Hale of Beverly due to the fact that he is a successful exorcist. Rev. Hale begins an interrogation on the girls who danced in the woods. As an uninformed outsider in Salem‚ Hale is easily convinced that powerful witchcraft is among them. Hale’s
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