Moreover, when Reverend Parris confronts Abigail about being fired by Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail denies any wrongdoings. She accuses Elizabeth as “a lying, cold, sniveling women” who spreads rumor about to degrade her social status. Abigail’s motivation in the witchcraft is thus revealed, which is jealousy towards Elizabeth. As Abigail successfully frames other people for being responsible about the witchcraft, she further imposes her domination over the other girls. Her domination is demonstrated physically and verbally.
Abigail is accusing everyone of witchcraft to clear her name. She thinks if everyone thinks it is Mary Warren that is connected with the devil; no-one will think to accuse her. This act fits into the play
Analytical Essay on the individual living in Salem in The Crucible Being a part of the Salem community was something dangerous because no matter what you did, you were bound to be accused of witchcraft. In The Crucible, it starts out with Tituba being accused, Reverend Parris’ slave, because of her coming from Barbados, being of low social status in the town, and because the girls needed someone to blame it on. Tituba was then being whipped, so she needed to accuse someone else. In this case she was accusing out of fear for her life; she then accuses Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. These two women were two poor women of low social status and here they are being accused.
The Salem Witch Trials were a result of mass hysteria fueled by the accusations of Abigail Williams and her friends. During the Salem Witch Trials those suspected of witchcraft were jailed and given a trial. During the trial the accused was dogged for a confession and even names of other wishes. The incentive was if they confessed, God would forgive them and they could live, but of course no one was really a witch so most plead innocent and were hung anyways, simply because of a suspicion. The whole event of the Salem Witch Trials is viewed as unjust because after the accusations spread, many townspeople simply accused their neighbors of being a witch to gain revenge, money, land, or something similar.
The Poppet The Crucible focuses all on witchcraft and anything that has anything to do with witchcraft like: animals, dances, languages, darkness, dolls, and behaviors. So when they spot any of that they condemn you for it, like the poppet found in Goody Proctors house was better evidence to arrest her when she had already been accused for witchery. This poppet helps develop the plot, and it plays an important role. In the opening scene in Act two, Marry Warren gives Goody Proctor a poppet as a present which she says she made in court. Goody Proctor is then arrested for attempting murder against Abigail Williams.
He wants the riches without the work. Thomas’s wife, Ann Putnam also holds a grudge against the Nurse family. She believes that Rebecca Nurse is a witch and murdered the seven babies Rebecca helped Ann deliver. Ann
Tituba in turn blames other women, and Abigail cunningly devises a plan of accusing other people of witchcraft including Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife. Abigail saw Mary Warren, the Proctor’s maid, making a doll and sticking a needle inside the doll for safekeeping. She decided to stick a needle in the same place as the doll and accuse Elizabeth of sending her “spirit” to stab Abigail. However, everything goes wrong when her act jails Proctor. Unable to convince him to escape with her, Abigail runs away to never to be seen again.
I swear it uncle” (Miller 11). Abigail lies about dancing, having an affair, and accuses others of witchcraft because she fears the punition for her
The two tragic characters being compared are Lady Macbeth and Madea. Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth and plays a key role in the play. She causes Macbeth to commit acts of violence and to go insane. Through her role in the play Lady Macbeth becomes insane and causes Macbeth to spiral out of control leading to the death of Macbeth and the suicide of herself. Madea is the wife of Jason, who was abandoned by him and left with no one because she was exiled from her original land.
So when the proceedings of the witch trials come to town the Putnam s take that as a way to take Rebecca down. They accuse her of killing their babies be conjuring up her spirit and killing them before they come out of the womb. Unfortunately for Rebecca she fall victim to the mass hysteria in Salem, and is thrown I jail because of it. So being the good Christian she is when Judge Danforth asks her to confess she does not. Rebecca Nurse one of the kind and innocent people in the Crucible fall from power do to the happening of the Salem Witch