John denies Abigail saying that it will never happen because he loves his wife. Their relationship isn’t the strongest but love is there. This so called love drives Abigail to accuse Johns wife of witchcraft so that she is to be hanged for committing sins against the bible. She thinks that killing Johns wife would make him love her even though John has told her otherwise so many times already. Her actions actually hurt John greatly throughout the story.
Mary Warren displays this anxiety when she allows Abigail to frighten her into abandoning John Proctor and accusing him of witchcraft. This leaves him unable to prove the girls' perjury and at the mercy of the judges who are quick to impose guilt. Reverend Parris also displayed an influence by fear when he urged the judges to condemn the accused and encouraged the accused to confess. He believed that this would help him continue to appear moral in the town during immoral and unjust proceedings. Should he lose his facade of morality, he would lose his position of power as reverend.
He would not be able to live with himself knowing that he lied. He saved his reputation, and the tremendous act to do so was very noble. He knows what it takes to have a good name. The importance of reputation was displayed at the end of the play. John ends up confessing to having an affair with Abigail because he is trying to get his wife, Elizabeth or goody proctor out of prison.
Salem Witch Trials People will stop at nothing to get what they want. The Salem Witch Trials were no exception. Jealously and greed of a neighbor’s land, and even intolerance of one’s different beliefs motivated these trials. In Juliet Blackwell’s essay, “A Witchcraft Mystery Series: Salem Witch Trials”, she goes as far to say, “It just may be that land, deeds and inheritance motivated the witch hunting more than a desire to expel the devil.” The trials began in 1692 when Betty Parris, the daughter of Samuel Parris- “a minister who was neither well-liked nor desired (Hill)” – and Abigail Williams began to have extremely strange behavior: fits, convulsions, and blasphemies. The town doctor pronounce the girls bewitched after examination, which sent the town into frenzy.
Elizabeth sees his inner goodness shine when he refuses to lie about being involved in witchcraft, and she realizes how unfair she has been. John Proctor saves the lives of the others who are accused when he unselfishly declines to save his own. He acts as a martyr when he places others before himself. He would rather die an honorable death than live a dishonorable life, which is what precedes him to be the tragic hero of the play. John Proctor, being a very complex character stuck in a world full mischief, madness, and chaos shows a major change as the play unfolds.
She has a strong love for John Proctor that I mentioned previously, and the only thing that stands in her way is Goody Proctor. In addition to being the only roadblock to her being with John, she also wants to get revenge on Goody Proctor because she kicked her out of her house. “ABIGAIL: She hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and I will not work for such a woman.” (Miller, 12). Abigail used to be a servant in the Proctor household, but once Goody Proctor found out about John and Abby’s relationship, she fired Abigail.
The townsfolk of Salem feared having their own reputations tainted by the sins of others, that they distant themselves and even accused others in order to protect or promote their respective reputations. During time of hysteria, old grudges and jealousies flared, adding to the atmosphere of tension. 4. Characters Transformation: John Proctor (Protagonist) - John Proctor sees himself as a strong, stern, honest man except for one affair incident with Abigail that haunts him. Early in the play, he could’ve prevented the spread of the hysteria by testifying against Abigail’s accusations.
Suggesting that not only his father but other adults were unkind to him as a child as well, so he does not know how to handle the presence of children. When the grandmother begins to plead with him not to kill her she states that "she knows he is a good man and does not come from common blood" (O'Connor 192) he suggest sarcasm when he states " yes ma'am." "no finer people in the world." "daddy's heart was pure gold"( O'Connor 192). He is also contradictory because when asked by the Grandmother if the murder was a mistake, the Misfit knew it wasn't a mistake because "they had the papers on me" ( O'Connor 195).
Abigail is a very dishonourable person. She lies throughout the whole play. She lies to save herself, but by doing this she has no personal integrity. She would rather see others suffer than be true to herself and others. Elizabeth is a very honourable person, however that all changes when she lies to the court.
He explains that while the actual event of his mother's second marriage isn't necessarily the direct cause of Hamlet's madness, "it must be because the news has awakened into activity some slumbering memory, which is so painful that it may not become conscious" (Jones 93). Basically, Hamlet feels as if he has been fighting for his Mother's love all his life, then, when he sees how quickly and without thought she gives it away, he is, in one sense, heartbroken. Of course, all this is on a subconscious level as if to merely prompt hatred and crazed emotions without Hamlet realizing what they come