Power-hungry Finger-pointers.
These two historical events have much in common, particularly their leaders. Abigail Williams and Joeseph McCarthy are both “power-hungry finger pointers.” They both are fantastic at blaming innocent people for crimes, and they are professional power and attention hogs.The process of the two events are also similar, even though the events happened in different time periods, and were about different topics. In the Crucible, there are about 8, or so steps. The first step starts with an affair between a married man and a lustful teenager. The very last step ends with innocent people dying. In these situations there are many wrong doings, by multiple people. The steps are all consistent with the idea that, the original …show more content…
“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down” (The Crucible Act 1). When Abbi says this, she is definitely looking for the “Queen Bee” position in her group, or to solidify it. Step Three; Accusations spread across town and begin to have nothing to do with the original problem at hand. After the first accusation, Tituba, there starts to be a recurrence. When someone new is introduced to the case, or another person is accused of witchcraft, Abbi instructs the girls to pretend to see spirits and follow her lead. At each of the hearings for another accused, Abbigail is always the first one to scream and hide behind a pew or another one of the girls. This shows her leadership in the group, how the other girls follow her lead out of …show more content…
The accused are; Goody Good, Goody Proctor, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, and Tituba (there were a few more also.) These people were all accused of doing an act of witchcraft. In reality, they did nothing wrong, a bad outcome came from one of their actions and someone got scared or worried for their land, possessions or their own reputation. Abbigail had spoken to many of these peoples accusers, telling them something similar to what she told her “followers.” Many of the accused were accused by Abigail’s friends, saying that they’d seen the accused doing something in relation to witchcraft or “dealing with the devil.”
Step Five; Innocents die, Abbigail comes out unscathed but loses her lover. After Elizabeth Proctor was accused, she claimed to be pregnant to hold off her hanging. Over a period of a year or so, Elizabeth Proctor is finally released and John Proctor takes her place. He is stripped of all of his belongings, even his name. He is hanged along with Rebecca Nurse, and Sara Good. Giles Corey was eventually crushed to death, literally. This means that Abbigail’s search for power was won, but her scheme to keep her lover to herself had failed
These two historical events have much in common, particularly their leaders. Abigail Williams and Joeseph McCarthy are both “power-hungry finger pointers.” They both are fantastic at blaming innocent people for crimes, and they are professional power and attention hogs.The process of the two events are also similar, even though the events happened in different time periods, and were about different topics. In the Crucible, there are about 8, or so steps. The first step starts with an affair between a married man and a lustful teenager. The very last step ends with innocent people dying. In these situations there are many wrong doings, by multiple people. The steps are all consistent with the idea that, the original …show more content…
“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down” (The Crucible Act 1). When Abbi says this, she is definitely looking for the “Queen Bee” position in her group, or to solidify it. Step Three; Accusations spread across town and begin to have nothing to do with the original problem at hand. After the first accusation, Tituba, there starts to be a recurrence. When someone new is introduced to the case, or another person is accused of witchcraft, Abbi instructs the girls to pretend to see spirits and follow her lead. At each of the hearings for another accused, Abbigail is always the first one to scream and hide behind a pew or another one of the girls. This shows her leadership in the group, how the other girls follow her lead out of …show more content…
The accused are; Goody Good, Goody Proctor, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, and Tituba (there were a few more also.) These people were all accused of doing an act of witchcraft. In reality, they did nothing wrong, a bad outcome came from one of their actions and someone got scared or worried for their land, possessions or their own reputation. Abbigail had spoken to many of these peoples accusers, telling them something similar to what she told her “followers.” Many of the accused were accused by Abigail’s friends, saying that they’d seen the accused doing something in relation to witchcraft or “dealing with the devil.”
Step Five; Innocents die, Abbigail comes out unscathed but loses her lover. After Elizabeth Proctor was accused, she claimed to be pregnant to hold off her hanging. Over a period of a year or so, Elizabeth Proctor is finally released and John Proctor takes her place. He is stripped of all of his belongings, even his name. He is hanged along with Rebecca Nurse, and Sara Good. Giles Corey was eventually crushed to death, literally. This means that Abbigail’s search for power was won, but her scheme to keep her lover to herself had failed