... . This would frame Elizabeth as performing witchcraft on Abigail. This time, Abigail's plan is sucsessful, when Cheever is at the Proctor house to arrest her, he spots the doll with the pin stuck into it. Elizabeth understands what is happening, but has no way of proving herself to judges who refuse to say that witches do not exist. Elizabeth tells John "Spoke or silent, a promise ... look for a scape goat, so their bad luck luck is not to blame, for that would be a sign that they were not chosen. Ann Putnam even asks Tituba to conjure the spirits of her children so they can inform Titub...

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... question why. Many other questions that deal with why she compacted with the devil. Tituba then scapegoats all of these questions by saying she saw spirits of some Puritan women form the town. The trials in The Crucible takes place in a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play believe that witches are the center of community and is God's work. But as this goes on, there ... are a lot of feuds and rivalries in the small town that have nothing to do with religion, and many Salem residents take advantage of the trials to express grudges and revenge...

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... Williams who is seventeen and a strikingly beautiful girl. She was an orphan and has an endless capacity for dissembling. Rev. Samuel Parris took her out of orphanage and she lives with him. One day Abigail and John Procter had an affair, something that he will be regretting until he dies that never goes ... away. He ends up deciding to tell his wife about this and she fires Abigail and I believe she told some of the neighbors that Abby did because Abby couldn't get work being a maid anymore, nobody would hire her. Then one day Parris finds Abby and some other ... they saw doing witchcr...

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... own self interest. He fears any defense against the charges of witchcraft as an attack upon the court and a personal attack on him. As a pastor, his primary concern is personal reputation, for when he does not preach on damnation he strives for money such as the deed to the preacher's house and expensive candlesticks. "The man's ordained, therefore the light of God is within him." This quote from ... Hale, is a form of irony because the audience, and the people convicted of witchcraft know that Reverend Parris is a deceitful person. But, since he is a priest, people don't convict ... to ...

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... hunts". If you opposed the Salem Witch trials you were accused of being a witch. If you opposed the McCarthy investigations you were accused of being a communist. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail and some of the young girls are dancing in the woods. They conjure up spirits while dancing naked and they are discovered by Reverend Parris. This leads the people of the town to believe the girls are witches. ... Reverend Parris calls in Reverend Hale as an expert witness. He at first believes they are witches. To save themselves the girls accuse other women of the town of ...

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... by Hale, and her gentle, just nature creates a sense of sympathy for the audience to feel. Interestingly, Rebecca Nurse, is the only character to suggest that the people of Salem 'go to G-d for the cause of' Betty's unresponsiveness rather than jumping straight to the subject of witchcraft. She points out that 'there is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits', stating a witch hunt could 'set [them] all to ... great power in her home. She has a wise influence on John, controlling the majority of his actions due to his intense care of her opinion, and is also abl...

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... and which are innocent based on their "sightings" of those people with the Devil. The judges also determine the accused's innocence based on weather or not their spirits come out, or posseses, the five girls during their trial. It doesn't take long before the girls accusations begin to consume much of the villiage. After Abigail accuses Mrs. Proctor of witchcraft, many of the villiage begin to think that these accusations are false ... and that the girls are acting under pretence. After Elizabeth's jail setence, her husband, John Proctor, takes action. He, along with many other villiage...

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... were taken into court on whether or not they pleaded to confess or not. As each person who was prosecuted of witchery, the girls defended themselves by testifying that they (the one accused) would come into each of the girl's rooms at night and send spirits from the devil to touch them at night. For this purpose, to defend themselves without anyone betraying them, they worked ... up a plan with each other to indict others in the case they get caught. Abigail Willams had many intentions of getting what she wanted regardless of what it took. On the first day, Abigail mentioned Elizabeth Pr...

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... to this , therefore, becomes implicated with having the devils spirits on the girls. This justifies that John Proctor was accused by knowing Mary Warren because if he would not have made her testify, therefore, would not be at court. Elizabeth often puts forth her feelings to John Proctor about Abigail. Elizabeth, unfortunately, would be one of the first convicted for this reason. As soon as ... , other names began to start popping up. After the first day in court, Reverend Hale makes a visit to the Proctor's home. Reverend Hale questions Elizabeth if she heard about her name being broug...

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... , by informing them that everything is ok. Shortly after John Procter, resented for his ability to exposes other's foolishness, enters the Parris's house hold to join the crowed. John Procter is a local farmer who lives just outside of the town; he's a stern, harsh-tongued man who hates hypocrisy. Mr. Proctor is uneasy when he sees Abigail, a girl who worked for him who he had an ... Procter informs him that he does not like Parris's kind of authority. When Reverend Hall arrives at the Parris house, he carries with him several books to aid him in his work. Parris informs Hale about the g...

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