The first reason is that because Abigail Williams is extremely manipulative and vindictive. Abigail tries to get Procter to pity her saying, “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!” (Miller 22). Abigail wants Procter to pity and give her what she wants, regardless that his wife caught them once and can catch them again. Another reason their relationship is dangerous is that if John Procter were to prosecute against Abigail Williams saying that she is in fact a witch, Abigail Williams could very easily tell the entire town that she and Procter have been having an affair to get revenge on him.
Explore how Shakespeare and browning reveal strong feelings using Lady Macbeth and the laboratory. The laboratory by Robert Browning is about how one woman in aristocratic France because of betrayal and jealousy can lead to attempting to kill her partners’ new lover. The woman is at a laboratory to have a poison created to kill her rival. During which she has flash backs revealing what she has witnessed. The woman in the dramatic monologue is the woman with the strong feelings unlike normal women of the 18th century who would have gone to a church to pray to god, for him to give them strength, but this woman decided to go to a laboratory which was considered as the devils house, “devil’s-smithy”, to take actions into her own hands.
If the witches didn’t initiate the thought of murder within Macbeths mind, then the murders may have never been committed and the whole mayhem of events may have never began. Although Macbeth was convinced by the witches, they were not the only ones to make Macbeth commit the murders. Lady Macbeth helped in convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan so he could be king by trying to persuade by emasculating him to do it so they could have a better life. After Macbeth started having doubts about murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth challenged Macbeth’s courage and
But in Glück’s poem, this brings to mind the Salem witch trials or Joan of Arc burning at the stake. Gretel is in darkness, but the witch is lit forever in our minds by fire. Women are tortured as witches, and the child who grows into a woman is forever tortured by that memory. Orange blossoms are the traditional flower of weddings, but in Mock Orange the sickly-sweet flower is a symbol of sex as an imposed rite. That is also the theme in A Myth of Devotion.
Abigail wants Elizabeth out of the way so that she and John can get together. Proctor states that Abigail “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it.” (110) Implying that Abigail is manipulative and charismatic, attacking anyone who stands in her way.
c. Abigail Williams was caught dancing in the woods by her uncle (whom she lives with), and her fear of what would happen to her if it came to the surface what she and the other girls were really doing, makes her start crazy allegations against others to save her own name. Also in the back of her mind John Proctor is there and that is, in her mind, her prize if she can get away with accusing others of witchery. d. Due to Abigails blinding love for John Proctor and her fear of consequences if she were to be caught, Abigails actions of accusing and condemning the innocent are not purely evil, and can be defended. II. Body paragraph 1 a.
Abigail desires john, but he loves his wife. She confesses to have seen the devil and danced for him with all the other girls. Elizabeth gets accused of being a witch by Abigail. Mary Warren Elizabeth’s servant friends with Abigail, informs her that she has been accused of being a witch. When john takes Mary to the court so she can testify against the girls they think it’s a bit suspicious.
She not only acted as a tyrant but she pulled other people into her mess. Abigail Williams is the main reason behind the Salem witch hunt. She is the one who broke the rules of the church and brought all the girls and Tituba into the woods. Once the “Blame Game” started, she could have ended the hysteria. Instead, she continued her false accusations.
Mary Warren, although frightened of Abigail, decides to tell the court the truth about the whole allegation and the dancing that happened in the forest. When Judge Danforth calls on Abigail and the rest of the girls to question them, Abigail in a sense of smartness executes a plan to divert the whole attention towards Mary Warren by pretending to sense a cold wind and “seeing” a white beam of light next to Mary. “She’s going to come down! She’s walking the beam” (Miller 3.1085-1086). She then starts to mimic the actions and words of Mary; this in turn builds a solid proof in the eyes of the court that Mary Warren practices witchcraft.
Parris, Abigail causes the hysteria with her lies and accusations by falsely accusing people in the village of practicing witchcraft. She goes along with Tituba and gives names while Tituba is being stressed to reveal names of people who’s been involved with the devil “Tituba, rocking and weeping: Aye, sir, and Goody Osburn.”(Tituba). Abigail admits that she was involved with the devil and want to return to God. She does this because she wants attention and doesn’t want anyone to have suspicions of her. Abigail had an affair with John Proctor so she gives reveal his wifes name Elizabeth as one of the witches so she can be put to death with the other accused and Abigail can have John Proctor all to herself.