“You never look good trying to make someone else feel bad,” this quote alone speaks volumes. How can someone just lie on an innocent individual just to protect their wrongdoings and continue on with life without feeling guilty? But at the same time, this game called lying is the “new black”. Many individuals today in society and from the previous eras failed to realize that “if you just tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mainly because when someone has told a lie they must create many lies after that to keep up with their story and it becomes too much and they begin to forget the first lie they even told. Lying, in some cases, are not always considered to be a bad thing, because it might help you or your loved ones but lying
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Abigail was sort of like the ringleader of the girls, when she pretensed to be seeing a spirit they instantly followed her. Abigail’s main goal in her “lying fest”, was to send Elizabeth Proctor to her deathbed to take her place with John Proctor. As stated in the play Betty mentioned “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!”, it was like Abigail craved to be with him and she would do anything to get her way. Abigail was willing to go as far as committing blasphemy, sleeping with a married man, and lying saying that these individuals sent their spirit out to get her, in order to protect her own self, to receive the desires of her heart and completely destruct her morals. But what she did not know was that the desires of her heart would only make her look like a delusional personal, which brings you back to the quote “you never look good trying to make someone else feel …show more content…
He covered this concept by using the characters Elizabeth and John Proctor. For example, when John finally confessed his sin of harlotry to the court demolishing his own name in Salem, he mentioned that his wife Elizabeth, who never tells a lie, would help prove that to the court. When Elizabeth was brought into the court, she automatically knew that her husband’s name meant a lot to him so when asked in the court did he commit the crime she was trying to search for any sign letting her know that it was okay to tell the truth. This today is what we call “loyalty.” However, Elizabeth did not tell the truth instead she lied saying that “I seemed to thought that her husband turned on her by fancying Abigail,” and at the end simply stating no. She was willing to go as far as breaking her own morals of no lying and to be thrown back in jail to protect her husband even after he cheated on
Abigail was sort of like the ringleader of the girls, when she pretensed to be seeing a spirit they instantly followed her. Abigail’s main goal in her “lying fest”, was to send Elizabeth Proctor to her deathbed to take her place with John Proctor. As stated in the play Betty mentioned “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!”, it was like Abigail craved to be with him and she would do anything to get her way. Abigail was willing to go as far as committing blasphemy, sleeping with a married man, and lying saying that these individuals sent their spirit out to get her, in order to protect her own self, to receive the desires of her heart and completely destruct her morals. But what she did not know was that the desires of her heart would only make her look like a delusional personal, which brings you back to the quote “you never look good trying to make someone else feel …show more content…
He covered this concept by using the characters Elizabeth and John Proctor. For example, when John finally confessed his sin of harlotry to the court demolishing his own name in Salem, he mentioned that his wife Elizabeth, who never tells a lie, would help prove that to the court. When Elizabeth was brought into the court, she automatically knew that her husband’s name meant a lot to him so when asked in the court did he commit the crime she was trying to search for any sign letting her know that it was okay to tell the truth. This today is what we call “loyalty.” However, Elizabeth did not tell the truth instead she lied saying that “I seemed to thought that her husband turned on her by fancying Abigail,” and at the end simply stating no. She was willing to go as far as breaking her own morals of no lying and to be thrown back in jail to protect her husband even after he cheated on