Crucible‚ Elizabeth Proctor sacrificed her principle of not lying to try and save her husband. John told the court that he had an affair with Abigail. Before that‚ he also told the court that Elizabeth would never lie. Danforth brought Elizabeth into the courtroom‚ but 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
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underdog in the story The Outsiders. Provide at least 3 excerpts from the text as evidence to support your answer. Heroes are everywhere; they live the same neighborhood as us‚ and eat the same cereal as we do. We just sometimes too blunt to realize it. Their heroic actions might be small-like sticking up for a bullied kid and other time they can be great like saving people lives like Spider Man. But the thing about heroes is that they always come from some place that we would never expect to find
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Crucible‚ Abigail Williams has antisocial disorder‚ also known as sociopathy. This condition is caused by factors including early life experience and learned behavior. This reflects Abigail’s situation because it is known that she witnessed her parents being killed right in front of her when she was a child. Then as an orphan‚ she was raised by her uncle‚ Reverend Samuel Parris‚ who was not an honourable man. When these factors are combined with neglect and separation‚ like her experience with John Proctor
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Abigail Williams Abigail Williams was born in an unknown town with unknown parents and then moved to live with her uncle‚ Reverend Parris‚ when she was younger. I think the reason she likes older guys‚ like John Proctor‚ because she never really got to know her father. When she moved in with her uncle she felt loss since he was extremely strict and all about himself so she found out ways to get attention. Therefore she started dancing in the woods with her friends and claiming people she does
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Abigail Williams in the Crucible Abigail Williams is the niece of Reverend Samuel Parris in Arthur Miller’s book the Crucible. Some people may think she’s just a normal girl but how can people be sure about that? Abigail Williams‚ age 17‚ is indeed a young girl‚ but she’s also an evil villain. Throughout the book‚ there are many examples to show how this is true. Abigail makes up lies to get what she wants‚ to get out of trouble‚ and to manipulate others. She also attempts a homicide just
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quotes from the play) ____/50 11-27-12 2 vocabulary words ____/10 Erickson Active Verbs ____/10 3rd hour English Pronoun Agreement ____/10 Proper Manuscript form ____/ 5 Mastery -1 for each occurrence The Moral Dilemma of John Proctor Life or death? A simple question that most people would instantly know the answer to‚ and for most that answer would be life. However‚ what if the choice of life came with consequences. What if saving your life meant
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The Crucible: John Proctor and John Hale - Good Citizen vs. Good Person In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller portrays the two main characters‚ John Proctor and Reverend John Hale as "good men". The term "good men" in this play is ambiguous. Reverend John Hale was a good man in the sense of being the perfect and good citizen of Massachusetts in the 1600 ’s. He was pious‚ adherent to the laws and beliefs‚ and a good Puritan Christian. John Proctor‚ on the contrary would not be considered the greatest
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In the novel‚ A Long Way Gone‚ a young boy by the name of Ishmael is forced to become a soldier at a very young age. He becomes involved in drugs and violence‚ stripping him of his innocence. Towards the end of the story‚ he is turned over to UNICEF and put into a rehabilitation center to recover from the horrors he had experienced. This relates to human trafficking; both issues involve children’s innocence being taken from them at a young age. Both groups deal with violence‚ tragedy‚ and drug use
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John Proctor: Tragic Hero “A man cannot become a hero until he sees the root of his own downfall.” This famous quote from Aristotle highlights one of the main reasons that tragedies were created; to point out the flaws of a society to learn from them. John Proctor‚ from the tragedy The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ is a prime example of a “tragic hero”. He starts off the play as a respected and successful farmer whose main focus is himself above all else. While the Salem witch trials highlight this
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Although Abigail Williams liked to think of herself as an important part of the witch trials‚ her motivations for what she did were not that different than many ordinary teenagers: she sought revenge‚ put her own well-being ahead of others‚ and let her feelings for John dictate her actions. Abigail has a conniving mind like most teenage girls have when they plot revenge‚ and she goes above and beyond to get her revenge. Seven months had passed since Abigail Williams worked for the Proctor’s and
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