... the time, in 1764. She fought for women's rights throughout her life, and had five children with John. As John became president in 1797, she became the first lady from 1797 to 1801. While John was away on business trips or many other reasons, she would maintain their home and write love letters to ... rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." Over the years, John and Abigail have said many important things which I believe not many people have heard, so I have selected a few of what I found to be very important and interesting ...

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... curiosity, tension, confusion, fear, hatred and suspense. Some examples of these are at the start of the scene when there are voices that can be heard "through the partition wall", people want to know more and are curious to find out what they are saying so they listen intensely. When Giles Cory ... proper place - where my beasts are bedded" this creates hysteria. All the arguments have two opposing sides. Abigail says "why do you come, yellow bird?" And John Proctor says, "Where's a bird? I see no bird!" Abigail screams "My face? My face?" This makes the atmosphere terrifying and dramati...

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... he went to the courthouse and admitted that his affair with Abigail caused her to say his wife was a witch. John knew that by admitting this he could be hung for adultery, but he didn't care. As soon as Abigail heard this, she knew she was in trouble. She also knew that if she confessed that she was lying she could save ... John's life. But although she loved him, she would not sacrifice herself for him. So in fear for her life she fled ... the town and was never heard from again. Eventually all the hurt Abigail caused others came back to her. But in true Abigail ... ...

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... the righteousness of a women, none can be exempt from the accusations. Rebecca Nurse, a figure of respectability and good sense, has a very big influence on John Proctor, the protagonist of the play. It is due to her that he is able to become such a hero of Salem, sacrificing his public reputation for his ... of what he must do. This shows Miller's representation of Rebecca as signifying truth, morality and logic. Her 'great charities' have all been 'heard ofin Beverly', as mentioned by Hale, and her gentle, just nature creates a sense of sympathy for the audience to feel. Inter...

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... dancing but fervently denies that it had anything to do with witchcraft. Parris does not wholly believe Abigail, certain that as he saw the girls dancing he heard them speaking things in a satanic tongue. He is also convince that he saw a naked girl running through the woods while they were dancing. As Parris ... to threaten the girls not to speak a word of anything other than the dancing that took place in the woods and the conjuring of Ruth's sister. John Procter then enters the room looking for Mary whom he is there to take home. He is then left alone with Abigail, whom his wife had ...

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... a violent ritual in which the girls are cursing the spouses of the men they love. Tituba is observed twirling around with a chicken and is heard screaming chants. Following this is a shot of Abigail with blood flowing from her mouth. The theatrical version has no mention of chickens and no mention ... to the immense weight of such an offense. The believability of Elizabeth's character would be questioned if she had not gotten upset. The film portrays John and Elizabeth as distant and unappreciative. They are very short with one another and have difficult communicating. The movie's depict...

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... purpose to protect him. Elizabeth is asked why she terminated Abigail Williams as a worker, but for once lies to defend her husband. With this said, John becomes more suspicious when he says to the court talking to Abigail, "you are pulling heaven down and raising up a whore." Supposedly, this is said to ... 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 the trials began to start ......

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... a direct connection to God, empower the previously powerless Abigail. Once shunned and scorned by the respectable townsfolk who had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor, Abigail now finds that she has clout, and she takes full advantage of it. A mere accusation from one ... highest good, even if it means accommodating oneself to injustice "something that the truly heroic characters can never accept. Elizabeth Proctor John Proctor's wife. Elizabeth fired Abigail when she discovered that her husband was having an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth is supremely virtuous, but ... Reveren...

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... Sir Charles Gradison. The book "gave the woman of innocense the sheltered environment necessary ....realization of her full potential" (pg 12). Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather close to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams. Their wedding was held on ... reaching his highest potential. That would be selfish and very unexpected from a person during that time. During their long periods of separation, Abigail and John kept in close contact with a steady flow letters. Beginning in her teens and throughout most of her life, Abigail...

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... of Joe McCarthy. Miller himself was dragged into the spot light by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was put in the exact same place were John Proctor had been in "The Crucible". Miller was asked to give a list of names of people who he had seen at a communist meeting ten years ... of power when the whole town of Salem listened to their words and believed each and every accusation. After all, children were to be seen and not heard in Puritan society, and the newfound attention was probably overwhelming. McCarthy was looking for a way to get into power and suddenly stumbled ...

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... clearly an attack on women in the community and on those who stand in the girls' path. Abby and John Proctor, a well-respected man in the Salem, engage in an affair in which she cannot forget. John, on the other hand, wants to leave the matter in the past. He makes his opinion clear uttering, ... personal bank account. Much like McCarthy, Abigail and her followers sought attention. Young women and men in the seventeenth century were looked down upon. Having their voice heard is especially out of the question for Mary Warren, being a hand for the Proctors, and Mercy Lewis, a servant. By...

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... is an orphan, a child, and rumors had been going on about her regarding her previous job. She worked for Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor. Mrs. Proctor fired her because Abigail and John had an affair. Abigail is first questioned when she and her friends come back from dancing in the woods and her cousin is in ... because he wanted to stay true to his wife, so she accused Elizabeth on spite. She is very jealous of the relationship between John and Elizabeth and will do anything to turn John's love onto her. Abigail is evil she puts innocent people's lives and even her on friends on the line to ...

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... only seems to worsen with the circumstances of the trials and his wife being accused by the woman he commits adultery with. In The Crucible, John's greatest challenge is to overcome his personal despair by cleansing his soul of guilt and by also using the adultery to discredit Abigail's testimony. By ... Proctor revealing his deepest secret, he overcomes his internal conflicts and reaches a place of personal salvation in his life. John Proctor's relationship has been forever damaged by his mistake of committing adultery with a much younger girl who used to be his servant. It seems as .....

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... girls soon spoke and named Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good (Fremon, 27). Since there were three Salem Village residents accused of witchcraft, an investigation began. Two magistrates from Salem Town, John Hathorne, the great-grandfather of famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nathaniel added a "w" to his name to help disassociate himself from this great-grandfather) and Jonathan Corwin, traveled to Salem Village ... a cloud of tragedy lingering over Massachusetts", Salem Village. A Saintly old woman named Rebecca Nurse. A pipe-smoking beggar named Sarah Good and her new born child. An outspo...

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... hard blow. Putnam first became jealous when his brother-in-law was turned down for the position of reverend and Paris got it. From the time Putnam heard of Betty Putnam being bewitched, he was in a hurry to try to gather proof like when he told Goody Nurse to mark her not being able ... didn't do jus like many other people in Salem. Abigail Williams had a grudge against Elizabeth Procter because she liked the husband of Elizabeth who was John. John and Abigail had slept together in the barn and when Elizabeth found out that they were having relations, she kicked Abigail out. In the begin...

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... society created a rigid social system that did not allow for any variation in lifestyle. The strict society that was employed at this time had a detrimental effect on the Proctor family. John Proctor, a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to ... not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not have his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being ...

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... surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials of the 1950s, John Proctor's agonising struggle with guilt emphasises the restrictive nature of the Puritan society. The play explored the fate of citizens when the law of church ... and gave a suspended prison sentence, which he appealed to and was later acquitted of. Miller fought to maintain his dignity and his principles, like his John Proctor in the play who stood up to what he believed in to the end. The Salem witch trials took place from June ...

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... not really deserve. In The Crucible, it is very hard to find a strictly "good" Puritan. One person that I find to actually be considered good is Reverend John Hale. He was a man of the church and came to Salem to help the people. When people were being accused of witchcraft, he tried to help them ... while sticking to his Puritan values and beliefs. He did not lie to the people or to himself. He listened to the people, heard their stories, and tried not to judge them. Also he was a reverend which is a really righteous Puritan quality. Another person that could also be considered ... one...

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... surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials of the 1950s, John Proctor's agonising struggle with guilt emphasises the restrictive nature of the Puritan society. The play explored the fate of citizens when the law of church ... and gave a suspended prison sentence, which he appealed to and was later acquitted of. Miller fought to maintain his dignity and his principles, like his John Proctor in the play who stood up to what he believed in to the end. The Salem witch trials took place from June ...

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... story; she tells lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to hang. The people of the town once shunned her because they had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor. Abigail now finds that she has influence over people, and she takes full advantage of it. In a sense I think The Crucible is a classic tragedy ... , John Proctor being the story's tragic hero. Honest and upright, Proctor is a good man, but has a secret. His lust for Abigail Williams led to their affair, and created Abigail's jealousy of ... or involved in the witc...

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... from a conglomerate of primary accounts, and based on reality. The play begins with a flustered Reverend Parris praying for Betty, his daughter, who is in a state of comatose. Earlier, Parris had heard a commotion in the forest and discovered his niece, Abigail, and her friends: Betty, Mary Warren, and Mercy Lewis, and Tituba, his Caribbean slave, swaying and dancing in the forest to ... -body Mrs. Putnam is convinced the devil is active in Salem, and she forces the notion upon Hale at every chance she can. On the other hand, Salem's resident logician, John Proctor, is irked by the inani...

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... of history, Miller wanted to add some sort of element of excitement to this period in time by adding in a romance between two characters. In real life, this was never heard of, because Abigail was only eleven, but seventeen was a reasonable age in Miller's mind for this to occur in his play. The man that Abigail loves in the play is ... John Proctor, who is much older and married. They had an affair, but he wants to put it out of mind; "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. ... ...

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... self- pride and reputation was so large that they could not force themselves to give such a lie and spoil their good name, as it was seen in the case of John Proctor. By refusing to give up his good name and reputation, he had to die. Proctor exclaims in the final act "How may I live without my name? I have given you ... - ""Tis hard proof" They persisted until Elizabeth screamed "why- ! The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world!" Cheever responds "Ripped out of the world! Herrick you heard it!" anything used as evidence- even the slightest comment. The Puritan society or w...

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