During the year of 1692‚ the small town of Salem seems to have been in a state of panic and confusion. The book Witchcraft at Salem‚ by Chadwick Hansen‚ is about the witchcraft conspiracies the town has experienced. Hansen goes on to explore the truthfulness of the "possessed" young girls. The reason why Hansen wrote the book is to try to set straight the record of the witchcraft phenomena at Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ in the year 1692‚ about which much has been written and much misunderstood. Hansen
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Danforth tells Parris to go get Elizabeth Proctor‚ he asks John Proctor if whether she is of trust. Proctor responds that she had never told a lie in her life‚ that she did not have the capability to lie (Miller 873‚ Act 3). I believe that this is ironic because he said that Elizabeth could not tell a lie‚ and to his surprise‚ she told a lie for him. The second example of when irony appears in The Crucible is when the author shows us that Abigail‚ Betty and Tituba lived in Parris’ house‚ the minister
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protagonists. She is manipulative and unthruthful from the very beginning as she refers to their dancing in the woods as nothing but a “sport”‚ and then says “there be no blush about my name”. She lies because she is clearly scared of her uncle‚ Reverend Parris. However‚ when John Proctor comes in‚ it is clear that she still has feelings for him as she says to him‚ “ you loved me then‚ and…you love me yet!” Also‚ because of her affair with John Proctor‚ she is very bitter with Goody Elizabeth Proctor for
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ fear changes a girl’s true nature and power thirsty men begin to crumble at the thought of losing their influence and position in Salem. Abigail is the beautiful‚ ambitious‚ seventeen-year-old niece of Reverend Parris‚ but with her supposed friends‚ Abigail becomes a sly‚ malicious person and tends to manipulate them out of fear of being forgotten and rejected from the group. Abigail threatens the girls: “Let either of you breathe a word […] about the other things
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with Betty Paris when the play opens? Describe her condition. 2. What is the true reason why Reverend Parris is upset over Betty’s condition? Explain. 3. What does Reverend Parris insinuate about Abigail’s loss of employment with the Proctor’s? How is his insinuation later proved to be true later in Act 1? 4. What conflict seems to exist between Mr. Putnam and Reverend Parris? Explain the nature of their dispute. 5. What does Betty reveal about Abigail and their activities with
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Town was a threat to their way of life. Parris was mostly in charge of finding “witches”‚ so he took this as an opportunity to get vengeance on the people who didn’t approve of his church. Majority of the people who didn’t like the way Parris ran the church lived in Salem town. In addition‚ anyone one in Salem Village who had any connections to people in Salem Town and who opposed Samuel’s church were the ones mainly accused of being witches. Because Parris and his supporters were so afraid their
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Reverend Parris‚ Hale and even John Proctor are responsible to an extent. Abigail is the main antagonist of the play‚ so its no wonder that most of the blame for the trials are pinned on her. Abigail‚ at first‚ was driven by her jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor‚ wife of John Proctor whom she has feelings for‚ to dabble in witchcraft in an attempt to use dark arts to kill Elizabeth. This leads to Reverend Parris walking in on the girls and Tituba practicing witchcraft‚ which led to Betty Parris’ coma.
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is not always the case. Reverend Parris uses the church and its authority to bring himself above the town. Being a priest gives one a great deal of influence over someone’s beliefs. The reason Parris has no power of persuasion is due to the fact that he does not have an illusion of knowledge. Parris looks over Danforth’s shoulder at a list of women who have had dealings with the devil. Parris explains “these people should be summoned. For questioning”(93). By Parris looking at a pre written list of
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manipulative. When talking to her uncle Parris‚ she pretends to be innocent and claims that she and Betty had merely been dancing in the forest‚ not doing anything related to witchcraft. Since dancing is a seemingly harmless activity‚ we see Abigail as the victim here as her Parris keeps on pressing her for information and causes her to “lower her eyes”. This also gives the impression that she is submissive and is meek and respectful of Parris. She also answers Parris “in terror” at one point. One would
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by Arthur Miller Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? 2. Why is the Reverend Samuel Parris so distraught at the beginning of Act One? What unnerves him about the report Susanna Walcott brings from Doctor Griggs? Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? 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
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