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The Crucible Characteristics


            
             People had the opportunity to express all sorts of emotions such as sin, guilt, hatred, vengeance, and jealousy. All the characters in the play have their own foils, but there are a few who possess more than one. The play was written in the height of the Red Scare, by a man named Arthur Miller. The complexity of the characters is outstanding, but what is amazing is that it is all relatively true.
             What is jealousy? It is envy, anger, and resentment. Abigail Williams knew these characteristics all too well. From the day she was fired from the Proctor home, Abby was jealous. Jealous of Elizabeth and of the life she had. Abby was in lust with John Proctor and was willing to do anything to get him, even to kill Elizabeth. She wanted to be John's wife and to be the mother of his children and when she couldn't have that her jealousy grew to an extent that even her friends couldn't resist. They plotted and connived until the convinced the judges that Elizabeth Proctor was a witch. However, much to Abby's dismay, all her jealousy was useless because John was so in love with his wife that he put his good name out before the court in order to prove that Abby had lied about it all. After she let her jealousy get the best of her she ended up having to leave town because of how she was being viewed.
             John Proctor was weighed down by both his sin and the guilt he felt for that sin. He broke one of the commandments, thou shall not commit adultery. He cheated on his wife, Elizabeth, with Abby. He knew that this sin had ruined his marriage, and that Elizabeth would never trust him again, and the guilt alone almost killed him. When he finally realized what Abby was doing he went to the court and told them of his sins and of his guilt in order to help free his wife and condemn Abby. After he admitted all his sins he was thrown in jail, condemned to death. The morning of his execution, he was offered freedom for his lies, but he knew he had lied enough in one lifetime and that if he saved his life with lies it wouldn't be a life worth living.


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