flash! Reverend Parris responds with reasonable frenzy to the possibility of heavenly powers, releasing themselves, however later he is one of the best advocates of this view. What causes this turnabout? And they talk about all of the trials they are going thru and how they are going to do it to get everything to make things better. After seven days, alone in their farmhouse outside of town, John and Elizabeth Proctor talk about the continuous trials and the heightening number of townsfolk who have been blamed for being witches. Elizabeth encourages her better half to impugn Abigail as a cheat; he won't, and she winds up plainly desirous, blaming him for as yet harboring affections for her. Mary Warren, their hireling and one of Abigail's …show more content…
While they examine matters, Giles Corey and Francis Nurse go to the Proctor home with news that their spouses have been captured. Officers of the court abruptly arrive and capture Elizabeth. After they have taken her, Proctor frightens Mary, demanding that she should go to Salem and uncover Abigail and alternate young ladies as fakes. The following day, Proctor conveys Mary to court and reveals to Judge Danforth that she will affirm that the young ladies are lying. Danforth is suspicious of Proctor's thought processes and tells Proctor, honestly, that Elizabeth is pregnant and will be saved for a period. Delegate holds on in his charge, persuading Danforth to enable Mary to affirm. Mary tells the court that the young ladies are lying. At the point when the young ladies are gotten, they turn the tables by blaming Mary for beguiling them. Irate, Proctor admits his issue with Abigail and blames her for being propelled by desire of his significant other. To test Proctor's claim, Danforth summons Elizabeth and inquires as to whether Proctor has been unfaithful to …show more content…
Too terrible he didn't think to stick Betty with a stick. She most likely would have woken up in a flash! Reverend Parris responds with reasonable frenzy to the possibility of heavenly powers, releasing themselves, however later he is one of the best advocates of this view. What causes this turnabout? And they talk about all of the trials they are going thru and how they are going to do it to get everything to make things better. After seven days, alone in their farmhouse outside of town, John and Elizabeth Proctor talk about the continuous trials and the heightening number of townsfolk who have been blamed for being witches. Elizabeth encourages her better half to impugn Abigail as a cheat; he won't, and she winds up plainly desirous, blaming him for as yet harboring affections for her. Mary Warren, their hireling and one of Abigail's hover, comes back from Salem with news that Elizabeth has been blamed for witchcraft yet the court did not seek after the allegation. Mary is sent up to bed, and John and Elizabeth proceed with their contention, just to be hindered by a visit from Reverend Hale. While they examine matters, Giles Corey and Francis Nurse go to the Proctor home with news that their spouses have been captured. Officers of the court abruptly arrive and capture Elizabeth. After they have taken her, Proctor frightens Mary, demanding that she should go
Abigail and the other girls were being accused of witchcraft by Mary Warren. Mary reveals that she saved Elizabeth's life and she also was accused in court. Elizabeth realized that Abigail had wanted her dead. Proctor had told her that he will find Ezekiel the next day and tell him what Abigail had said, but Elizabeth thinks that he needs to go now. . Elizabeth believes Abigail wants her dead so that she can have John all to herself. .
Mrs. Proctor says she fired Abigail because she suspected that Proctor had been seduced by the 17 year old to commit adultery that he later admitted to. As a result, Abigail became jealous and set out for revenge, after all the earlier woods action and Mary Warren brief support she had Mrs. Proctor arrested for witchcraft claiming that she crafted a poppet of her and used it to physically hurt her. On the stand, Abigail says she never intended to hurt John Proctor even though he ended up getting him killed. We later find out during the defendants questioning of Mr. Proctor that Abigail had no ill will against Mrs. Proctor until the trial. The two had not spoken to each other again until the trial and in his own words says, “Abigail confessed the truth to him, and wanted to run away with him”.
And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! Abigail to Betty and Mary Warren who initially express fear about their actions in the woods and express a desire to confess. Abigail asserts her power over the girls right away so as to ensure she is not exposed. “ (miller page 20) so Marry accused Proctor of witchcraft so she won’t be sent to hang. So Danforth threw Proctor in jail one of the town's most proud men because Mary warren accused him after Abigail and the girls turned on her.
(90). All of the proof Judge Danforth listed can be easily faked, like the choking, or is something that someone could do to themselves, like slashing themselves with daggers and sticking pins in themselves if they wanted to. Judge Danforth is so convinced that Abigail is telling the truth, that not even testimony from an ex-accuser stating the falsehood of the accusations would satisfy him. Mary Warren, who works at the Proctor home, was one of the girls found dancing in the woods and was one of the girls who was on Abigail’s side, was forced to testify against Abigail in court when she returned to the Proctor house one night, informing John Proctor that his wife, Elizabeth Proctor had been accused of witchcraft. Mary Warren said to Danforth that she and the other girls were faking everything and
Then Mary tells the court that the girls are lying, but when the officers brought in the girls they tell Judge Danforth that Mary is bewitching them. Proctor became furious and tells the court that he had an affair with Abigail and that she was jealous of his wife. Then the Judge bring in his wife to see what she has to say about this and she ends up protecting Proctor’s honor and tells the judge that he didn’t have an affair with Abigail and Proctor is arrested for being a liar in
There are many reasons that could have cause Abigail to seek revenge and act out in such a way that put everyone’s life at potential risk. Abigail’s past has a lot to it, as revealed when Proctor visits Salem and runs into Abigail who expresses her anger and jealousy towards Elizabeth. When Betty and Ruth (who are also young girls) are supposedly diagnosed with the ‘devil being inside of them’, and people come to the conclusion that witchcraft has taken a negative impact on them, John Proctor ends up visiting Salem to figure out what is going on. As John Proctor is leaving the town of Salem, he runs into Abigail who is still looking for trouble.
Proctor’s guilt is present when he, attempts to pay for his sins by giving his wife materialistic objects, hesitates to obey his wife's suggestion to accuse Abigail of false bewitchment, and breaks out in anger for not wanting to be judged any longer. The romantic relationship between the Proctor’s is undoubtedly extinguished, but even casual engagement cannot exist without tension since everything John Proctor says to Elizabeth is a symbol of repentance. He offers Elizabeth the possession of a cow and expresses “with a grin” that all he
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there were many moments where all the characters lacked commitment and loyalty. There were little girls accusing women of witchcraft just because they didn’t like them. The girls were practically murdering the poor women themselves, all to get rid of someone and save themselves. No one was loyal to their own spouses, or was committed to a job without panicking or getting jealous at someone. The characters had no morals, and disregarded them.
Proctor motivates to learn how the truth can still not matter if it is not what the court wants to hear causing people to be killed and put in jail. John Proctor chooses to try to hide the affair between him and Abigail Williams , which causes half of the town of Salem going to jail for witchcraft. John is talking to Mary Warren when she is talking to him about the Devil being in Salem and they must find where he is:"I
In what ways are women abused and discriminated against inside literature and throughout history? In many patriarchal societies, men have held authority over women due to gender. This power imbalance between men and women sometimes led to unjust treatment of women; men exert their authority over many women in the play, The Crucible. In The Crucible¸ male characters intimidate women to achieve specific outcomes and mark their superiority. Elizabeth Proctor, the protagonist’s wife, shows the standard for Salem women as she is submissive and does not defy her husband or the traditional role as a housekeeper.
John tells the court that Elizabeth will testify to his confessions about being a lecher and so they call her in for questioning. However when asked if it was true Elizabeth denied it to protect her husband’s name but instead caused him to be the liar and without knowing, helps Abigail’s case. John Proctor made a risk when he confessed his and Abigail’s crime of adultery and trusted Elizabeth to testify for him but to protect her husband’s fate she lied but instead it only made matters
(I.465-472). Seeing Abigail cry, it suggests that Abigail’s affair with John Proctor has influenced her behavior in jealousy and lust as she strives for nothing more than her love for John Proctor. By only being heartbroken, Abigail is not to be fully blamed for the hysteria within the town as her actions are only based on desperate attempts to win John Proctor over, and no intentional harm whatsoever. However, on the other hand, Abigail cannot be excused with outside forces making her the way she is due to the fact that she has clearly had a choice in most of her decisions and actions throughout the witchcraft crisis. When Mary Warren, another girl involved in the forest incident, enters the court, she explains to Danforth, the judge, that the girls are lying and are only pretending to see spirits.
This causes a problem because Reverend Parris then spreads the lies. When Reverend Parris realizes he is spreading lies, he keeps it to himself to protect him from his enemies. Abbotson wrote, “By fixating so much on sin, the religious extremists, represented by men like Parris and Danforth, become sinful and turned from God” (1). Abbotson is saying how Reverend Parris has turned his back on God and is a sinner. Reverend Parris is brought to believe cruel and deceitful lies by his niece,
In Act 1 of The Crucible, parts that really stood out to me was the author’s dictions and decisions to make the scene more intense and exciting. The author, Arthur Miller, decided to include many characters in the scene very suddenly without any foreshadowing. First appearances of the most characters in the book are sudden enterings into the room yelling out with emergent news of the evidence of the witchcraft in the town. One of the characters, Mary Wallen, entering the room breathlessly with yells, “What’ll we do? The village is out!
After this, Mary Warren, who is John Proctors maid, very breathlessly tells Abigail “Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two years ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You’ll only be whipped for dancin’, and the other things!”