Abigail Scott Duniway

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 months. She would leave home to become a teacher, shortly after marrying a rancher, named Benjamin Duniway. The newly married couple would live in a log cabin, isolated on the Oregon Territory frontier. Abigail would begin to see the cruelty of the world,…

Abigail is a very good example. She and Proctor had an affair and was now very jealous of Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth was accused of being a witch by Abigail because Abigail wanted to have Proctor to herself. As mentioned before, witchcraft represented sinning in The Crucible. Lying is a sin and Abigail lied when she made the accusation about Elizabeth. The only reason Abigail lied was so that she could possibly have Proctor. That was her motive. It was obvious that Abigail still…

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…

Abigail Adam’s early signs of Feminism Feminism is an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, supported early ideas of feminism or women’s rights, she focused most importantly on girls getting an education, she developed these ideas from her marriage to John and her influential childhood. First, Abigail Adams felt very strongly about girls receiving an education. Judith Sargent Murray felt strongly about…

or area. The crucible can be considered timeless or having timeless value when talking about the consequences or the realities of lying, yet in a whole as a playwright it isn’t of timeless value. It is set in the year 1692, Salem, a small town in colonial Massachusetts. Reading this playwright the year and place is a constant reminder, it’s what sets the base for the play. So its timeless value is very limited. In act 1 of the crucible when question of the devil`s presence in Salem and who is…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about early America during the witch trials. In the Crucible a 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…

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…

When most people think about revolutionary people in history, they don’t think about John Adams. And even more people don’t think about Abigail Adams, either. Though women didn’t have as big as a role as the men did back in the 1700’s, Abigail went above and beyond with making sure she wasn’t the stereotypical housewife. Alongside of her cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, and with her husband gone most of their marriage fighting the war for independence, she proved that she was…

In reality, the bond among John Adams and Abigail Adams was more than beyond passionate and safe. After all, the two were deeply in love and composed over a thousand intense and heartwarming letters to one another. Despite, the relationship between John and Abigail Adams as shown in the letters the two exchanged are a partnership. Nevertheless, the two both will go out there way to communicate with each other no matter the distance between them. Although, she sets the standard of opening doors…