A Victim of Society Abigail Williams is a victim of her society in The Crucible. Many events and traumatic happenings have caused her to possess harsh and ruthless behavior towards others. During the Salem witch trials of 1692, Abigail not only accused innocent people of witchcraft, but also intended to split husband and wife John and Elizabeth Proctor because of her love for John. However, cruel and selfish actions are often influenced by an unpleasant past, as they are in Abigail’s case. One event in her past that influenced her behavior is her parents’ death.
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where God and hard work consumes the people. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is lying next to the bed of his ten year old daughter Betty who is unmoving and unresponsive. Hysteria is running through Salem because of the rumor that Betty is bewitched and she and several other girls where dancing in the forest with Parris’s slave Tituba. Solely afraid of losing his job, Parris questions Abigail. Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her.
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
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
In the crucible many people were branded as witches. Because of wrongful accusing many people died. Because of lack of punishment many people were abused. Because of old laws of marriage, couples were unhappy. America has leaned lessons from this time period and will continue to learn them from years past.
A Rose for Emily The Use of Color In A Rose for Emily, one of William Faulkner’s works, tells a story of Miss Emily in a small town of southern America. She was a daugther of a super strict and controlling father who kept her in solitude until her death. Miss Emily was always thought of as a weird and mysterious person to her neighbors, but the neighbors confirmed their theories of Miss Emily when they found out that she had killed her lover, Homer Barron and slept with his body for forty years in the upstairs of her house. Faulkner uses complex plots and a mixed-up time sequence to approach a despairing and gloomy image of Miss Emily to the reader. However, Faulkner uses colors to represent certain moods and mental conditions of Miss Emily during the story The color black has appeared twice in the whole story, one is in the first description of Emily’s appearance, is when the officials went to her house to discuss the tax issue.
He does that with the aid of his evil wife Lady Macbeth. She plotted the murder, and she made most of the decisions, but forced her husband to carry them out. Macbeth visits the tri of witches again and they tell him that his friend's son will be the king. The witches also tell Macbeth that he has to fear no one because their prophecies seemed impossible. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plan to hire murders to kill Fleance and his father Banquo.
Despite the best available care, Anna’s older son – Jamie – sickens and dies. Anna greives. As other lives are claimed by the plague, the villagers seek for a scapegoat and find one in Mern Gowdie, now believed to be a witch. Anna, who is tending her sheep on the moors, tries to prevent an angry mob from testing whether Mern is a witch by ‘swimming’ her. She is cast roughly aside, hits her head and passes out.
Not only does she deny doing witchcraft, she also manages to accuse Tituba of having full responsibility while she is the one who starts the whole thing. At the end of the chapter, she also frames some other citizens, saying that she sees them with the Devil. Her affair with John Proctor is furthermore exposed to the audience. Betty, Reverend Parris’s daughter, reveals that Abigail attempts to drink blood as a charm in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor, who is John Proctor’s wife. Moreover, when Reverend Parris confronts Abigail about being fired by Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail denies any wrongdoings.
My babies always shriveled in her hands!’’ She claims that everytime Goody Osburn was a midwife, her babies would die in her hands therefore agreeing with Abigail on Osburn being a witch. Anne Putnam claims Goody Osburn is a witch yet is lacking evidence to support her claim. She does not have an explanation for her babies’ deaths so she blames Osburn for her misfortune with her deceased