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
They deemed The Crucible was an allegory to McCarthyism. The book follows the events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. It portrays from the view point of the girl who started the witch hunt to townsfolk being victimized by the horrible acts of fearful people. The person most responsible for the epidemic of fear is Abigail Williams, a manipulative teenager trying to connect with her lover. Abigail Williams
Will Kane chose to stay and protect the town against everyone else’s will. He stayed because he felt that it was his duty to protect the townspeople since he was the one to put Frank Miller in jail. His wife, Amy along with the some townspeople tells him to leave town immediately to protect his life. They tell him that he is no longer the marshal of the town; therefore he does not need to fight for the town. Will Kane didn’t listen to what everyone told him and stayed to protect the townspeople.
Johnathan Liu Ms. Zymajtis English 10A 16 December 2011 Courage In this novel, there was a lot of courage expressed in many of the characters. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses the characters Mrs. Dubose, Atticus, Jem, and Scout to say that those who are truly courageous stand up for what they believe in no matter the consequences. Mrs. Dudbose was an elderly, ill tempered and racist woman. She was very courageous in the novel. “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what” (Lee p.112).
Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
[pic] As an actress playing the role of Mary Warren in ‘The Crucible’ I would find the following moments difficult to communicate effectively to an audience. Arthur Miller describes her as ‘She is seventeen, a subservient, naive, lonely girl.’ I think that the line ‘Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You’ll only be whipped for dancin’, and the other things!’ would be hard to perform because Mary has to feel really frightened and she also has to feel as if she is guilty of committing a crime.
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1952, is a recount of the horror that filled the town of Salem, known to many as the Salem Witch Trials.Which was really based on McCarthyism and the black list in the 1950s. The girls were motivated out of fear for their town’s harsh religious righteousness. Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey in 2004, is a tale of five girls that terrorize Lincoln Park High School. Motivated out of desire for high social standing, the girls
When the trials began, many accused others of witchcraft and this lead to them accusing even more. The new news of the entire witchcraft epidemic in Salem left many disturbed and trying to eliminate the bad of the town. The novel allows the reader to reflect on the life of the Salem people and understand the happenings. One example is the reflection of the lives of teenage girls in the puritan society, sent by God to marry and have a family, lacking the happiness of teen hood. Thus, explaining a
For instance, in the play Abigail becomes well known for her accusations of witches in the town. She becomes the leader of the girls as they find witches and get away with her continuous fibs. Abigail sets up Mr. Proctor’s wife by sticking a needle in Mary Warrens’ poppet later given to Goody Proctor. Abigail does and plans things on her own which is why she is a character with a lot of individualism. The next person who greatly exemplifies individualism is John Proctor.
Throughout the entire play, Abigail Williams uses her good name to control Salem by accusing people of witchcraft, which results in the deaths of many people in the town. After witnessing Tituba confess to Reverend Hale, Abigail confesses “I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!” (Miller 189). Abigail realizes that by giving the names of people she saw with the devil she can control Salem because she has a good name and people will listen to her.