When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
At the time she killed her children, she believed she was possessed and that the sign of Satan was marked on her scalp. She told the police that her children “weren’t developing correctly” and that drowning them was the only way to save them. It is possible the ideas of the minister pushed her to believe she a bad mother and to spare her kids from going to hell, she took it upon herself to take their
And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in’” (Miller 71). Spoken by Ezekiel Cheever, a clerk of the court, this dialogue shows that Abigail purposely stabs herself to make it seem as if it were the evil act of Elizabeth’s spirit. When the townsmen search the Proctors’ home, they discover the poppet with a needle poked in it (Abigail’s doing). Elizabeth is arrested, and Abigail is satisfied – for the time being. John Proctor, on the other hand, is outraged because he clearly knows the real motive behind Abigail’s deceitful
Quotes * “Your father tried to kill me in my sleep this night.” (p199) * “That spawn of Satan had laid me there.” (p199) * “Lucky for me, in his laziness and lust to be at my possessions” (p200) * “I had to scramble like a mole to get free.” (p200) Jane Martin Jane Martin was a young Puritan girl who minds Anna’s children when she is at work. Since Jane was a puritan she thought that “laughter and fun are ungodly”. Jane’s sternness often left Jamie craving for when his mother, Anna returned from work. Once the plague had taken Janes family and left her alone she rid herself of her puritan ways and began sleeping around making it hard for her to “keep her legs closed”. When Anna finds out about her sleaziness she takes Jane into her cottage and tends to her but to Anna’s dismay Jane ignored Anna’s comfort.
Abigail and the girls pretend Mary is bewitching them again which make Mary breakdown and accuse john of being a witch. After being tried as a witch and told he was going to get hanged he has a chance to confess and live but he chooses to die and keep his name. As a result of the lies and the affair between john and Abigail there were a lot of innocent people killed and hurt even those who they claimed they loved. Abigail and Elizabeth are two very different characters but have some similarities. Both Abigail and Elizabeth show determination in order to get what they want, and they are both strong
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.
Richard F 25 October 2011 Evil for All Life is the pattern of rises and falls of good and evil. A holy reverend is just as capable of committing a crime, just as a murderer might be selfless and give an innocent child a treat. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, characters ride the constant struggle between right and wrong and face the present and futuristic results of their actions. Hester Prynne, a single mother of a bastard daughter, faces this evil in form of the embroidered letter upon her chest. Chillingworth, Hester's undisclosed husband, falls under the evil spell of revenge, as well as Dimmesdale, a reverend in the Puritan society, also falls into the murky waters of lies and deceit when
Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin. Another example would be when Lady Macbeth says “Was your hands, put on your night-gown, looking not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried. (5, 1; 52). Considering the fact that Banquo is dead, and she was the one who influenced her husband to do all those bad deeds, in the end it caused her to relive this scene to show how cruel she was in the past. Thus it is shown that guilt can cause one to lose there inner conscience.
When Hales questions her about witch crafting, she responds saying, “‘He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly men, Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat!’” (848). Since Hale orders her to speak the truth about the devil, Tituba voices out all her hostilities towards her master, and blames that it is suggestions from the devil. At the same time, she can accuse “‘white people’” (848) with the devil. Hale claims that Tituba is “‘selected’” and is “‘chosen to cleanse our village’” (848).
In Act One, when Betty Parris, the daughter of Reverend Parris, was unconscious in the bed, the doctor couldn't find the medicine for her and suggested that they should "look to unnatural things for the cause of it. "( 9), Abigail, niece of Parris, grasped this opportunity to accuse the women she disliked of witchcraft in the town. In fact, her real purpose was to get rid of Elizabeth, her rival in love, and replace her. Soon, friends and followers of