Feelings are hard to express. Women tend to express their feelings more than men do. Every person obtains envy and jealousy. Whether or not the person decides to display their envy is their decision. Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams are women who fight over a man, John Proctor. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which takes place during the Salem witch trials, Abigail Williams shows her feelings with a more aggressive approach, while Elizabeth Proctor displays how she feels though subtle acts.
First of all, a 17 year-old girl, Abigail Williams is the daughter of Reverend Parris and an adulteress who commits evil sins to be with her love, John Proctor. Abigail is described to be “strikingly beautiful” and is extremely manipulative. …show more content…
Elizabeth knows the fact that her husband was having an affair with the former house help, Abigail Williams. However, Elizabeth possesses the need to make her marriage work by putting aside the event as if it never happened. When the court calls in Elizabeth for witchcraft she says, “John—I think I must go with them (Miller 173).” In spite of the fact that Elizabeth knows that she is innocent and Abigail accused her of witchcraft, she goes with the men who will take her to prison. Elizabeth does not make an obnoxious scene, but instead she calmly allows the people to take her into custody. After months of being trapped in the prison, Elizabeth learns to forgive John. The audience discovers this when John goes to the court to confess that the girls are faking it. Given the chance, Elizabeth is called into the court to prove herself as an honest woman or to save the one she loves. For the first time, Elizabeth is willing to lie to the court to save her husband rather than herself by saying, “My husband—is a goodly man (Miller 190).” Unfortunately, John already confesses of adultery and with Elizabeth’s caring lie, he is accused of overthrowing of the
First of all, a 17 year-old girl, Abigail Williams is the daughter of Reverend Parris and an adulteress who commits evil sins to be with her love, John Proctor. Abigail is described to be “strikingly beautiful” and is extremely manipulative. …show more content…
Elizabeth knows the fact that her husband was having an affair with the former house help, Abigail Williams. However, Elizabeth possesses the need to make her marriage work by putting aside the event as if it never happened. When the court calls in Elizabeth for witchcraft she says, “John—I think I must go with them (Miller 173).” In spite of the fact that Elizabeth knows that she is innocent and Abigail accused her of witchcraft, she goes with the men who will take her to prison. Elizabeth does not make an obnoxious scene, but instead she calmly allows the people to take her into custody. After months of being trapped in the prison, Elizabeth learns to forgive John. The audience discovers this when John goes to the court to confess that the girls are faking it. Given the chance, Elizabeth is called into the court to prove herself as an honest woman or to save the one she loves. For the first time, Elizabeth is willing to lie to the court to save her husband rather than herself by saying, “My husband—is a goodly man (Miller 190).” Unfortunately, John already confesses of adultery and with Elizabeth’s caring lie, he is accused of overthrowing of the