Abigail Is To Blame In Shakespeare's 'Elizabeth'

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introduction

Hook : ABIGAIL IS A LIAR!!!!!!!!

Background information : from my background knowledge i know that she is very young and she easily gets around and she's also not to be trusted

Thesis : if anyone were to be the one to blame for the ending i would blame abigail

Claim 1 : had affair with john proctor

Evidence 1 : proctor idiots to his wife elizabeth to having an affair with abigail on page 54 and 55

Evidence 2 : proctor also says that he was in a room alone with abigail for a short time before more people come to join them on page 54

Claim 2 : abigail is a faker

Evidence 1 : in the book abigail fakes as if the devil is in the room and as if mary warren was trying to hurt her to turn attention off of her onto someone else

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