... , he is less certain. Events he helped to set in motion are now causing him anxiety. So he comes by night to question the Proctors. He is somewhat severe with John because of his poor record of church attendance, but he is impressed with his sensible manner and shaken when he accuses Abigail of fakery. He is also favorably disposed toward ... the men's petition be placed in a more acceptable legal form, and urges that Mary Warren's accusations against Abigail be very carefully weighed. When Elizabeth's reticence weakens John's case against Abigail, Hale again comes to John's defense, cla...

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... - powerful of body, even tempered, and not easily led- who cannot refuse to support to partisans without drawing their deepest resentment".(Narrator 1044) This quote explains that John is a kind man, not easily led, a strong homestead farmer, upright, blunt-spoken and powerful of body. He is a puritan, a husband, a citizen, ... and an all around valuable member of the community. He does not set out with any intention on hurting anyone. In the beginning of the play John Proctor tries to avoid involvement in the Salem witch trials. Unfortunately he committed adultery with Abigail Williams w...

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... trials. She has been accused of witchcraft but the court did not pursue the accusation. Towards the end of the trials Elizabeth tries talking John into confessing. John agrees but refuses to say anything else. Hale is a minister, and also an expert on witchcraft. He is called to Salem to see ... is fully devoted. Even though their relationship seems to be slowly separating they only succeed in pushing themselves further apart from each other. Insight into John and Elizabeth's relationship can be found throughout act four. Reverend Hale is a minister and also Christian. He may be an expert...

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... girls who were caught dancing in the forest charge several innocent people for witchery, Abigail saw it as an opening to rekindle the love between her and John Proctor by accusing his wife, Elizabeth, of witchcraft. Elizabeth is then charged for witchcraft and was put to trial. She had the choice to either confess ... her back on the other girls and confessed that what they were doing was a fraud. Mary Warren, the nanny of the Proctor's children, was convinced by John to testify in defense of Elizabeth. Since she cares for her, Mary does so and testifies in court that Abigail and the oth...

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... then breaks out between Proctor and the Putnams, leading to evidence that Proctor dislikes Parris's fiery sermons and greed. Next to arrive is the Reverend John Hale, with his books, energetically proposing the whole witchcraft idea. He listens to the Putnams and even to the old Corey's suspicions his wife ... Putnam goes to call the marshal to arrest those listed while Parris prays thankfully. Act I closes. Act II begins a week later on John Proctor's farm with John and his wife talking. He is alarmed to learn that many other citizens have been arrested, notable judges have come, and t...

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... 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 ... 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 devoted a sig...

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... 't know what she's like from the first impressions. She does fear God and has never told a lie. Her attitude towards her husband (John) is definitely cold. She says she doesn't though. " John, you are not open with me." In act 3, Danforth is the deputy governor, which is a massive responsibility because being deputy governor means that ... Hale in act 3 starts to think about his past decisions he's being making and he realises they are wrong. He's always had his doubts but now John and Mary come to convince him that all the girls are lying, he believes them and that all the death warrant...

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... the 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 dramatic. There is disorder in ... the court because everyone is shouting, some examples of this are when the Girls shout "Abby, stop it!" and when John Proctor Shouts, "give me a whip-I"ll stop it". All the people are shouting so they can be heard and try to gain some influence in ... " several theme...

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... these people, who undergoes a major change because of the events that occurred in Salem. In the beginning, she forms an unfair opinion of her husband, John. She finds it very hard to forgive him for certain actions. At the very end she ultimately has a change of heart, realizing the potential destruction and ... showed towards him. Her actions were punishment without a cause, and she knew it. Elizabeth was wrong in her judgement of him, and it hurt not only John, but also both of them. "Her actions were punishment without a cause," is a phrase that parallels on the whole witch scare and t...

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... Parris standing over his daughter's bedside. His daughter, Betty Parris, is laying before him transfixed by some unknown ailment. Reverend Paris soon sends for Reverend John Hale, a specialist in demonology, to see if Betty's sole may have been transfixed by the Devil. Once Reverend Hale arrives, at Reverend Parris" home ... whole story - the only thing that can say is that they were dancing and that Tituba was teaching Ruth to conjure up her sisters. John Proctor arrives and he sends Mary home, Abigail and him talk alone about their arrive and Abigail propositions Proctors and he sternly...

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... loves his wife and could not risk losing her. Abigail is the main character as she has important issues to deal with due to her love for John Proctor. Abigail and some other adolescent girls were caught by her uncle reverend Parris dabbling in the supernatural (in 1962) in a result of this ... conscious of the things she does, but in building force of hysteria she may even believe that something is happening. Abby is also in love with John Proctor that much that she feels if she cant have him no one can that"'"s why she will do everything in her powers to see Elizabeth ... comfort at ti...

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... never convene with the Devil. Complicating the situation is an affair that Abigail had in the recent past with Elizabeth's husband, John Proctor. In the play, Abigail expresses her desire to rekindle her romance with John when she says, "I know you, John. I know you. I cannot sleep for dreamin"; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I"d find you ... comin" through some door." (Miller, Crucible 839) Although Abby still wishes to be with John Proctor, she fears that his marriage to Elizabeth will prevent any further close relations. Therefore, she accuses Elizabeth ...

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... Throughout this whole story we find that greed effected much of what happened in Salem, in fact greed caused the whole problem. From Abigail Williams's lust for John Proctor, a married man, to Thomas Putnam's greed for land to Judge Danforth's greed for power along with many others, greed was shown rampant in Salem ... money. Instead of worrying and caring for his daughter when she was "sick" he was arguing with his members about his ministers salary(Miller 29). John Proctor didn't have much respect for Rev Parris because when Parris came to Salem he wanted golden candlesticks instead of...

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... compact with the devil. Their morals and beliefs led them to start pointing fingers and accusing people of witchcraft. Out of everyone in the play John Procter remains closest to his beliefs. Proctor is an out spoken character who maintains an upright position of a wealthy farmer. He commits adultery with ... narrow mind preventing her from seeing how circumstances and how people in them can change for what they believe is right. "Give me a word John. A soft word- "John I am waiting for you every night." Abigail uses taunting and forceful tactics to make him see "Sense", interfering with...

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... from Abigail Williams" inability to tell the truth or respect authority that the fear of others develops. An example of this is the fear of John Proctor who is forced to be forever under the judgement and apprehension that Abigail will tarnish his good name because of his affair with her. ... ruin the life of a normally good man because of a single indiscretion that he made and that his wife was fully aware of. It is unlike John Proctor to be afraid of anyone in this way because he is usually physically and mentally a pillar of strength and an esteemed member of the community. ... she i...

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... children are jangling the keys of the kingdom and common vengeance writes the law. This warrants vengeance!" This quote said by the good John Proctor clearly states the main motive for the trials in Salem. Vengeance. The first and most obvious form of vengeance in the story occurs between ... Abigail Williams and John Proctor. John Proctor, a reformed sinner, engages in a callous affair with the young Abigail Williams. When Proctor's wife learns of the affair, she encourages him ... accusation condemning Elizabeth Proctor as a witch. Miller makes it clear that Abigail is lying right fr...

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... he has been entered into a puritanical society to condone the fears of God and induce a greater fear of the Devil into the people. He is criticised by John Proctor and he believes that there is a conspiracy against him, proctor winds him up by saying "I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him ... that is how easily everyone in Salem was influenced by the actions of others. The play also deals with sin; there is a dialogue between Abigail and John Proctor over an affair that they had. This is a perfect example of the sinful things that went on in Salem which people chose t...

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... again giving the audience a feel of the madness in Salem by building up a mad atmosphere.  Towards the end of Act II Miller uses the actions of John Proctor to make the audience feel the madness in Salem, with his violent acts indicating how emotions have spiralled out of control in the village. After the ... Miller used the end of Act II to show that the madness in Salem would continue into the coming scenes, and by making Mary Warren and John Proctor the subject of drama once again he has shown this. The end of Act III begins with Abigail conversing with an invisible bird which is ....

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... power associated with the withholding of truth is also evident in The Crucible. Power is firmly ensconced in the courts of Salem and the protagonist, John Proctor, is undergoing questioning about an affair with his former servant, Abigail. To protect him from the death penalty, his admission of lechery needs ... to be supported by his wife, Elizabeth. However, she denies this claim in order to protect John's reputation. Elizabeth reports to the court "She [Abigail] dissatisfied me...I came to think he [Proctor] fancied her". She proceeds to deny that Proctor had ... possess the authorit...

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... by this "witchcraft" non-sense, and not simply because of the witches themselves, but the consequences one would have to face. Abigail's biggest fears were not being with John Proctor, and being caught in a lie. She was determined to save her own life, so of course she got other girls to hop on her "save my life bandwagon ... , and makes false accusations, to keep herself from being suspected. She even went as far as getting the other girls to join her malicious acts. But what for? To win John Proctor? To not be caught? To finally stir something up in the boring town of Salem? Abigail wa...

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... a reputation that they did 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 ... , she was the one that accused the people, knowing she was the one that committed the acts of witchcraft. Abigail even drank blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor because she wanted John Proctor for herself. Murder is about the most evil and immoral dee...

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... about public image. He does not want people to think his daughter actually signs the Black Manbook, and wants to hide her mysterious illness from the parishioners. Also, he fears John Proctor, because Proctor does not like him. Parris feels that anyone that does not like him will become a threat to his authority as the minister. That is one reason he ... p! resses the execution of John Proctor. Another reason he presses the executions is because he cannnot bear the thought of witches in his parish. If there are witches, this would prove he is not performing ... they are both adulteress...

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... -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 inanity of the situation. Proctor is the voice of reason in Salem, but he has a secret; having taken part in coitus with Abigail, Proctor betrayed ... girls as they pretend to be taken by witches; when she shouts and thrashes the others know to do so as well. A perfect example of this is when Mary Warren, John's hired help, is accused of sending out her specter. Abigail pretends to see a bird ...

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... by the accusations 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 before. The Crucible starts after ... new found power to gather support for her wild accusations. In this respect Miller's determination to make a stand against corruption is epitomized by several characters in the play, for example John Proctor who shows him self to be a man of go...

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... by allowing McCarthy to ride rough shod over all authority. In this respect Miller's determination to make a stand against corruption is epitomized by several characters in the play, for example John Proctor who shows him self to be a man of good character and an upstanding citizen who is looked up to by the other inhabitants. Although he had an affair with ... witchcraft, which led to his being hanged. Miller 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...

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