... Arthur Miller, many problems arise, some as serious as life or death. Many innocent people in The Crucible were hanged. Of course there are many people that may be to blame for the witch trials. However The Crucible leads the reader to believe that the majority of the guilt could be found in Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. Although she is a smart, charismatic person with what seems ... to be a decent life for Puritan times, Abigail is a spiteful, vengeful, evil, young lady. She not only lied about ... every whim. Although they knew they were doing something horribly wr...

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... to save herself and hurt others. She accuses her friends and family of witchcraft but then later in the story runs off with her uncle, Reverend Parris's, money. These are some of the reasons why Abigail Williams is the worst villain in The Crucible. Abigail is out of her mind. The fact that she can not have John makes her upset. She makes up her mind that no ... matter what it takes, she will get John Proctor. In the forest she drinks blood, dances, and acts completely crazy. They ... get caught by Reverend Parris and need to make up a story to tell, Abigail ... ...

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... an affair with John Proctor, she shouted out John Proctor's wife Elizabeth's name. By accusing Elizabeth of being a witch she would be out of the way for Abigail, because Abigail still loves John and wants him back. We see that Abigail wants John's wife Elizabeth dead in Act 2 pages 50 - 55, where Elizabeth says to John, "she wants me dead, John, you know it ... !" This shows that Abigail has accused Elizabeth of being a witch because Abigail wants Elizabeth dead, so that she can be with John. This is a very tense conversation between Elizabeth and John, as Elizabeth is trying to identif...

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... a prostitute but this easily could be made up. '"'No one knows for sure what happened to the real person, says Margo Burns (English major; www.ogram.org/17thc/myfaq.shtml ). Lastly, at the end of '"'The Crucible'"', Miller states that Abigail runs off with 31 pound. Although he is paid more than this in a year, he wouldn"'"t have that much cash. Most of his pay ... was given to him as materials like food. The character Tituba was also inaccurate. First of all, she wasn"'"t from Barbados ... able to wake up. They actually just had violent, physical fits, which happened only a couple tim...

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... me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer!(18). Already being the main suspect Tituba is further accused of witchcraft thus allowing Abigail to once again escape. With her endless capacity of dissembling, Abigail glides her way through the story without detection. In the play The Crucible, some of the characters wear masks to save themselves and ultimately try to fulfill their own ... personal desires. Through the quotes Mrs. Putnam, Tituba, and Abigail all appear to wear masks. A mask can ... be easily applied to these characters, but in another sense the reactions they had to ... ...

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The Crucible In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller it is clear to the reader that many of the characters are hypocrites. Throughout the play characters constantly preach virtues that they don't practice or possess. In the play characters including, Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth show these qualities consistently. In this essay the reader will be made aware of the characters hypocritical way's through examples in the play. The ... and prove that she is a hypocrite. Another character who shows their hypocritical side is Abigail's Uncle Reverend Samuel Parris. Parris t...

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... 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 his wife, Elizabeth. Once the trials begin, Proctor realizes that he can stop Abigail's ram...

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... Proctor, a married man. Abigail worked as a servant to the Proctors", and during that time Abigail and John have an affair. Elizabeth Proctor suspects that something was going on and let Abigail go. Abigail is in love with John and is willing to do anything to get him back, even leading to witchcraft. In The Crucible, religion and superstition runs through the town leading everyone in the town in mass ... hysteria of the evil that may take over. The beginning of the play starts out when Parris, the town Reverend, says that he saw ... a number of the town girls dancing naked in the fore...

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... Fear, greed, ambition, revenge, and jealousy are personal motives used in the 21st Century as well as in the 1600s. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, illustrates fear, greed, ambition, revenge, and jealousy, and how each of them led to the loss of many innocent lives in Salem, MA, in 1692. Abigail Williams, Ann and Thomas Putnam, and Reverend Parris had personal motives that ... authority to prevent all the lies about the witchcraft but chose to do nothing. His personal ambition blinded him from doing any action, which resulted in the village falling apart rather than remaining un...

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... Miller. This book is about the Salem Witch trials in the 1600's. There was an emphasis on braking the Ten Commandments with in the characters of this book The Crucible. Three characters that broke the Ten Commandments that were emphasized in the book were Abigail William, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor. These were the people that broke some of the commandments that were main character in the story. John Proctor was a man ... who broke commandment. One of the commandments that he broke the one that says ... ...

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... Miller. This book is about the Salem Witch trials in the 1600's. There was an emphasis on braking the Ten Commandments with in the characters of this book The Crucible. Three characters that broke the Ten Commandments that were emphasized in the book were Abigail William, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor. These were the people that broke some of the commandments that were main character in the story. John Proctor was a man ... who broke commandment. One of the commandments that he broke the one that says ... ...

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... and lies of people in the town of Salem. The drama happens during the pre-American era. That alone shows that the court systems and the federal government did not exist, but rather each town has their own court; based off of their own ruling. In Arthur Miller's drama, The Crucible, the tragic hero, John Proctor, suffers at the hand of the Puritan theocracy because of the lies and selfish behaviors ... in Salem; however he redeems himself at the end of the drama. Selfish Behaviors of some characters (Parris, Abigail, and Danforth), cause more harm to John and others, while trying to prot...

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... and dramas have dynamic characters as the protagonists. A dynamic character is one who is modified by the actions through which he or she passes and the consequences he or she experiences. In The Crucible, John Proctor and John Hale are the protagonists. John Proctor is a farmer and a village commoner who similarly is faced with an inner turmoil. Proctor has committed the crime of adultery. He has ... characters in The Crucible. He is initially skeptical of the talk of witchcraft, but is soon caught up in the hysteria. At the end of the play, as a member of the court, he signs numerous ...

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller should have been resolved in a different way. The characters in the play could have changed the whole outcome of the witch trials and could have saved a lot of peoples lives. Abigail, Reverend Parris, and the Judges could have all saved many lives throughout the story if they hadn't done what they did. The outcome of the story could have been changed drastically. One of the people that could ... culture because it is human nature to suspect and prove, not just suspect. The judges were not very good at their jobs and caused a lot of lives to be lost. The Crucible ...

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The historical situation that the Crucible is about is, the witch trials of Salem. This story is in the form and a play and it depicts the hanging of many innocent people. Some of the people who are both fictional characters and real characters. A real character in this play is John Proctor, a fictional character in this play is Marshal Herrick. This story starts with Abigail Willliams and a bunch of other ... Abigail should burn in hell. Everybody took that as a sure sign of witch craft. Today over half the people in the world would be put into jail because they threatened another person or ...

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... will do everything to pursue their own personal gain. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller illustrates and demonstrates the extent that personal vengeance can have on a society where townsmen accuse their own. The trials in the Crucible take place against the back drop of a deeply religious and superstitious society, and most of the characters in the play seem to believe that rooting out witches from their ... their rivals are beyond wrong, that they are in league with the devil. Abigail, the original source of the hysteria, has a grudge against because Elizabeth fired her after she discovered...

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... woman, and yet she was an orphan who mistook John Proctor's sexual urge for true love. When Proctor told Abigail that the relationship could no longer continue, the girl became angry and did not accept this. In order to prove Abigail's sinfulness and to discredit her in front of the court, Proctor proclaimed that he had an affair with this evil whore. This outraged ... knew he had already confessed, and Elizabeth was unaware of the confession. The court jailed Proctor; Elizabeth Proctor's selfless act backfired. Proctor committing adultery with Abigail directly caused his jailing and in...

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... John's thirty three year old son from his first marriage. Eventually, all of the family was charged of witchcraft and hanged, only Elizabeth was spared because she was pregnant. The ages of many of the people in The Crucible were changed to be made more believable. Abigail William's age at the beginning of the play was boosted from an age of eleven to seventeen. John Proctor's age was ... sixty and Elizabeth's age was forty-one, a fact that was not mentioned in the play. At the beginning of the play, it is revealed that ... there was a wild dancing ritual in the woods led ... ...

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The Crucible illustrates that people's private motivations have major consequences that are far beyond that person's control. These people were the main cause of hysteria in Salem. Three characters that contributed to this were Abigail, reverend Hale, and reverend Parris. Abigail's private motivation was to have John Proctor all to herself. This motivation caused chaos in Salem because this gave Abigail a good reason to say that more ... give him more land and money. The people in the town did not like this at all and were putting threats in his life and he was kicked out of the church and l...

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The Crucible takes place in the Puritan New England town of Salem Massachusetts in 1692. When the play opens a group of girls are dancing in the forest with a black slave whose name is Tituba. The local minister Reverend Parris catches the girls dancing in the forest. His daughter, Betty Parris, was one of the many girls who were in the forest. When startled by her father she went into a coma-like ... Proctor is above all a proud man who places a great emphasis on his reputation. In an attempt to save his wife, Elizabeth who has been accused of witchcraft and to stop Abigail's rampage, he con...

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... 's "The Crucible" the pride of the people of Salem leads to a massacre of innocent lives. Pride is delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship. One of the main characters, John Proctor, has pride in his beliefs of purifying the Church of England. His wife, Elizabeth, has pride in her ability to use the trials as an ultimate revenge against Abigail Williams. John Hale is the "expert ... is his source of pride. He sees himself as the person come to save the lives in the New World. As the case progresses though he starts to doubt himself and realizes that he had ca...

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... pride is their religion, and if you are not a fully devoted Christian, you are a follower of the devil. This play tries to expose humans as self-serving destructive creatures. This statement is mostly applicable in the crucible, yet there are still glimpses of good characters. Throughout the novel there are parallels to our current world, this is one of Millers techniques, to put a mirror ... , even if it means putting his closest ones last. John Procter aged in his middle thirties, is a man who has done wrong. His one and only sin being Adultery. Abigail Williams, the woman of choice, n...

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... Miller's four-act play, "The Crucible." The definition is suiting, because it is during this play that the wills and motives of women and men are put to the test when they are accused or accuse people of things they did not do. It was the ultimate trial of determination and willpower to withstand such a wretched ordeal with your morals still intact. Abigail Williams, Elizabeth and John ... enough courage to follow his morals or his principles when it mattered most. Another character whose true colors are shown during the crucible is John Proctor. In act one he is a shady figure who chea...

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THE CRUCIBLE After reading Arthur Miller's play The Crucible it has become evident that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Tituba, Abigail, and Hathorne. Each of these people. In some way, cause harm to blameless people. This essay will explain what these people, knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as ... witches in Salem Village in 1692. Abigail was most responsible for the Salem Witch hysteria ... . Reason being is that she was caught dancing in the woods. Meaning that if you...

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I pray you all, tell me what they deserve / That do conspire my death with devilish plots / Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevailed / Upon my body with their hellish charms?(Shakespeare 21.) What do those who practice witchcraft deserve? Because of the nature of witchcraft, do accused witches owe anything to general society? Can the opportunity for benefit cause upstanding citizens to accuse neighbors of witchcraft? The conflict of religious ideals and governmental rule in the parochial society of the Puritans, combined with inherent flaws in the social hierarchy, led to the corruption o...

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