Abigail Adams

In life, there is that tendency to ruin the good things one has going on in their lives when they become more successful than they already are. People become inundated with the joy and achievement that they begin to act irresponsibly. A great thing such as winning the lottery can bring cheerfulness and satisfaction into one’s life but, on the other hand, this great thing can also become a complete nightmare. In most cases, when one goes from being extremely poor to being exceptionally rich, it…

Classic literature is inspirational and allows someone to relate to the feel of the story, some may be complex and some simple, classic literature is very hard to find and there isn’t a distinct test to see weather something is classic or not. Great works of literature are pieces that get you thinking and involved or attached to certain ideas or characters. They give more of a singular attachment, where you don’t love everything you love a specific thing and you focus on that one thing. There…

antagonist, Abigail Williams, had accused and had deadly sins and her dark heart blam people of witch craft, she also wanted to have an affair with a married man. One of the most responsible deadly sin in this play was lust and greed. Both play a key role in the story. Lust is what Abigail had, greed is what a lot of people had in Salem and some had lust and other deadly sins. Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body. This deadly sin is really important because Abigail…

The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are two differing plays that unite in the aspect of the justice system. In both plays, we have the conflict that the accused are seen as guilty before the evidence is thoroughly looked into. A difference that sets the two plays apart is that the young girls accused of being witches are not given as much of a chance as the young boy accused of murder. This is due to the differing time periods in which both plays took place in. These similarities and differences are…

Sylvia Plath clearly embeds the story of Esther Greenwood into the political situation of the time. The Bell Jar introduces its setting by referring to the execution of the Rosenbergs. In the summer of 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of and electrocuted for espionage. It was believed that they had passed secret US military information on nuclear weapons on to Soviet Intelligence. The fear of the so-called “red scare” was omnipresent, and it was believed that more and more people…

In the beginning of the play, when Parris questions Abigail about the dancing in the woods, Abigail wines up accusing Tituba of witchcraft so she can avoid punishment. Parris says, "...I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came on you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She was swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!"(Miller 10). Abigail responds by " She always sings her Barbados songs, and we dance"(Miller 10)…

imprisoned for the accusations of being a witch for strange “coincidences” that happened then they were hung for false crimes. The witchcraft trapped the girls mentally and spiritually causing everyone around them to be trapped physically thanks to Abigail Williams with her followers beside her. “And Then There Were None..” funny isn’t it? How everyone can be so cruel to others then they pay for their sins...not so funny now is it? These hellions or creatures of the dark in the forms of human…

Abigail Jane Scott was born on a frontier farm in Illinois. One of twelve children, she endured the Oregon Trail (age 17), as her family moved west, and experienced the seven painful months of great migration, in 1852. Abigail would see illness and death, as the route was unforgiving. Her mother Anne, would die of cholera, and it kindled an anger, as she realized the treatment of women in America. Her father would bring the family to live in Oregon, and Abigail would attend an academy for 5…

Once again, Salinger wasn’t oblivious to the meanings behind each character’s name. In fact, symbolism plays a part in the character Sybil Carpenter. “Sybil, bright with innocence but already tarnishing, symbolizes for Seymour the human condition: like the sibyls of old, she is the unconscious oracle through whom the prophecy is revealed, the instrument of truth” (Lane). A sibyl is defined as “a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god” (“sibyl”). It is…

October 25,1764: Abigail Smith marries John Adam Richard Cranch, a friend of Abigail’s, starting bringing John Adams with him to the family library. This is how Abigail met John, at first they did not get along quite well. He thought Abigail was a wit, who lacked in tenderness and Abigail thought he spoke too much. As his vistas became frequent, they both slowly began to find something attractive about each other. After John graduated Harvard in 1755, he decided to study law. At twenty-six…