While lying with Betty, she warns the other girls, “If anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the other things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night” (). However, when the news of her and the other girl's strange actions spreads like wildfire, the hysteria sets in. Abigail only contributes to the hysteria, though. She makes up lie after lie just to conceal her wrongdoing. She even pretends to see Mary Warren take the shape of a yellow bird while in court just to take the focus off her and John’s affair.
As early as Scene one, we learn of the motives behind Abigail’s actions as she tries to get the girls to agree on a story to protect herself. She uses the threat of violence and their belief that she might know some real witchcraft, to keep them in line, “Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... i can make you wish you had never seen the sun come
Why is it too monstrous? The desperate tone in this quote expresses a sense of paranoia which could explain her reasons for jumping to decisions. Her imagination also causes her to be very exaggerated and fanciful; her relationship with the children changes throughout the book using hyperbole to express different opinions. In Chapter 17 the Governess says, ‘I’d rather die than hurt a hair of you’ this appears to be rather strange especially in comparison to other moments of the book where she says that Miles ‘was a
Abigail Williams cried witch on Elizabeth Proctor (John Proctor’s wife) to eliminate Elizabeth. Other characters began to seek their own revenge and called witch on each other. The drives the characters have definitely move the plot forward, but also give us an insight to why
I believe that she is entirely responsible and will be arguing this by outlining some of the things she did and said. In act one, scene five, Lady Macbeth hears of Macbeth's meeting with the three witches and already starts to contemplate whether or not Macbeth has the courage to carry out whatever is necessary to become king. This is evident as Lady Macbeth ponders to herself: "Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness," which means that she thinks Macbeth is too good and kind to take what he should not have. Lady Macbeth immediately decides that she will have to assist Macbeth in his evil deeds when she learns that King Duncan will be stopping the night at their castle. When she says "Come you spirits that tend on murderous thoughts, unsex me," and "make thick my blood, stop th'access and passage to remorse," she is already calling on evil spirits to take away her feminine nature, and to stop her feeling any pity, remorse or compassion; Lady Macbeth is determined to assist Macbeth in murdering Duncan.
Creon questions her, and Antigone does not deny that she buried Polynecies. She and Creon continue to argue about the morality of the edict and the morality of her actions. During this argument Creon grows angrier and accuses Ismene of helping Antigone. Ismene tries to plead falsely to the crime, wanting to die with her sister, but Antigone denies this. Creon, growing angrier, has the two women temporarily locked up.
We’re gonna do something.” Because she was hurt and upset, Cady agreed to Janice’s idea of creating and evil plan to destroy Regina George. By agreeing with this plan, Cady is agreeing to lie and manipulate. Lying and manipulating is exactly what Regina did to hurt Cady in the first place. Not just by emulating Regina’s behavior does the audience see the beginning of Cady’s transformation, but also with the fact that Cady took advice from someone who is gothic. Gothic individuals are seen as scary for their violent choice in clothes.
This forebodes the death of Macbeth and also Lady Macbeth by suggesting that they will not be able to kill the King and live a normal, guilt free life afterwards. Lady Macbeth then creates irony as she mocks Macbeth for thinking this way, she refers to him as a ‘coward’ and insists that this murder is necessary. This part of the play is extremely significant as we realise just how harsh Lady Macbeth is and how far she would really go. She removes any maternal characteristics that she may have had by explaining that her lack of pity would extend so far, that she would murder a baby. “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”.
Macbeth is scared by the blood of Duncan. However, the blood may not be seen by others since it is only figurative. It is the eternal reminder to those characters of the terrible sin that they have committed. This symbol functions as a figurative tattoo that may not be removed from the hands. It drives Lady Macbeth to insanity that will eventually bring her to her collapse.
She is saying that as long as her power is secure, she should not be harmed by the murders she has committed, but she knows deep down that this is untrue. This is why she is imagining the bloodstain. She has created her own hell and knows it well. People are starting to notice the change in Lady Macbeth’s character. They are worried for her and for themselves.