She was taken in by her Uncle Reverend Parris, who she now lives with. She is the leader of the group of girls who accuse witchcraft on the town members of Salem. She danced in the forest with Tituba, and is also in love with John Proctor. Abigail has many different attitudes which include determination and dishonesty. She shows that she is determined by trying her best to condemn Elizabeth Proctor to death just to be with her husband John Proctor.
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.
Name: Karlos Mohareb Hour: 6TH Class: Comm 10 The Crucible Paper Character: Abigail Williams Abigail Williams was born on July 12, 1680. She and her cousin Betty Parris were the first two accusers in the Salem Witch trials of 1692. She was working as a prostitute and she was living with her uncle Samuel Parris in Salem. Abigail is a mean and vindictive person who always wants her way, no matter who she hurts. She is responsible for the deaths of those innocent puritans who died during the witch-hunt because of three reasons: First she is jealous.
Abigail had an affair with John Proctor so she gives reveal his wifes name Elizabeth as one of the witches so she can be put to death with the other accused and Abigail can have John Proctor all to herself. Abagial uses the girls to go against Mary and pretends in court that Mary Proctors servant has afflicted them with her spirit. Abigails deceit causes a lot of people to turn against each other and not know who to trust. She causes John Proctor to
And demandin' of her how she come to be so stabbed, she. . . (To Proctor.) Testify it were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in.” ACT II Abigail does this because she is desperate to accuse Elizabeth because of her jealousy towards the woman, and because Elizabeth is the one who could reveal John and Abigail’s affair which would have Abigail lynched.
I believe that she has a bad influence on Macbeth being that she led Macbeth in to a bad situation. lady Macbeth is always trying to over take Macbeth on the great chain of being .women in Shakespearean times where considered to have to work under men and where not allowed to take part in manly activities also lady Macbeth wished to be famous so when the news of Macbeth being told by the witches that he shall be king al her dreams flashed before her eyes being that she was expecting Macbeth to overhaul king Duncan in the great chain of being she then wished to overhaul men and the royalty as well, she saw her self as stronger and more powerful then Macbeth and she used love to guide him in to the grasps of the witches and the
Persuasive Essay- Lady Macbeth April Henderson 1st hour 11b English In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is to blame for her very influential, power-seeking and insensitive actions to persuade Macbeth. Ambition and greed are two similar but different words; by crossing that fine line, Lady Macbeth shows her greediness in this play. Throughout the play Macbeth was told a prophecy but only with a little push from his wife did he make it happen. Macbeth was manipulated into achieving the powerful state as king but it tragically leads him to his downfall. Lady Macbeth, among other things, is a insane, controlling, manipulative person and tends to get whatever she wants and does whatever it takes to get it.
Both Antony and Cleopatra and the 16th – 17th century were both at a time when the role of women in life was not valued as much as men and the principles of ruling Rome, Egypt and England in a well-ordered society were of great concern. In Shakespearean time (16th-17th century) rules and values of discrimination towards women and the way in which they were treated and presented were very much similar to the opinions and the way in which women were treated in 40-30 BC, in the time Antony and Cleopatra were set in. An example of this would be in the play of Antony and Cleopatra where Cleopatra is being described by Enobarbus (Act 2 Scene 2, Page 142): “Age cannot wither her, Nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless she is riggish.” Where Enobarbus is describing how all women can feed a man’s appetite and give them whatever they want or need (“The appetites they feed, but she makes me hungry”), displays how all women in the time of the play were stereotyped as an invaluable prize that could satisfy men if they were ever desired.
In William Shakespeare’s play Othello women are a significant part. Desdemona is portrayed at first to be pure and angelic. While the play unfolds the women in the play are portrayed as not only wives but as human beings as well. They have honor, love, and feelings just as much as the men in this play. Some of them are good like Desdemona and some are corrupted like Bianca and Emilia.
One of Woolf’s supports for her essay was that she discusses the everyday life of a woman so far as she has been to piece it together from the few reports she has been able to recover of that time; complaining that there is not nearly enough information on the period only supports her claims. Comparing that research to the life of a woman in Shakespeare’s plays, it is easy to see that Shakespeare exaggerated just a little about the importance, intelligence and treatment of women. She observes that “Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant.” (Woolf, 23) “For genius like Shakespeare’s is not born among laboring, uneducated, servile people.” (Woolf, 24) Generally Woolf prefers to reference those classics like Poe and of course Shakespeare, but her primary source for her essay was Professor Trevelyan’s History of England. She really enforces that this is an expert evaluation by using Professor Trevelyan’s book and others opinions, like the anonymous bishop, as evidence or at least clarity. She evaluates all corners of the woman’s life, (education, parenting, travelling etc.)