Abigail Williams In The Crucible

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Honestly, Abigail Williams from the Crucible by Arthur Miller was no way near being a Puritan women. She was very different from all the other women in that town at the time. I have a few reasons to back that up also. Abigail committed adulatory, she also took place in which craft. Also she never kept her mouth shut and never really listened to any other men in Salem. She also was a very good liar .She was very weird and she will always seem weird. For my first point on why she is weird and why she was not really a Puritan women is that she committed adulatory. She committed adulatory with this guy named John proctor. Adulatory was looked at back then and still now as a big sin. There are religious examples that adultery are looked at to be a serious offense. (According to Book of Exodus). In that time during the Salem witch trials adulatory was a serious offense, and it could ruin a person good name throughout the

Johnson 2 town. Women then, only had one husband and did not commit this crazy sin, unless your Abigail Williams
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She always had something to say. Abby through out the hole book and the movie, all she did was talk, make up random things,or lie about things that never happened. Puritan women then we're more modest, little more quite and listened to orders they were given. During the trails she would always say that she was attacked by an "evil spirt" from the person that they were trying to get hanged. She also got up into the judges face and just yelled at him because she was trying to prove her fake point. There are a few more reasons on why she never shut up or never listed, but those were just a

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