Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

John Proctor’s character brings his doom From the beginning of The Crucible to the end, John Proctor has been a dominant character throughout all the acts. In such a corrupt society in Salem during that time, John Proctor was one of the most courageous people during that time, standing up for the truth against his wife and many of the other accused. His character and attitude stood out from the rest in Salem, but unfortunately, it leads to his death. Because of the different aspects of John…

Nearly 200 people were prosecuted for allegedly practicing witchcraft in Salem in 1692-1693. Oddly enough 205 people were accused for being in the Communist Party 261 years later, in Wheeling, West Virginia. These two strange cases of paranoia and alienation are very alike, considering the time difference. Both of these instances have had a huge impact on society and will continue to for many years to come. The Crucible by Arthur Miller has haunting similarities to McCarthyism. The main…

will cut my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again” (22). The quote is showing that he does not want to interact with her anymore. Abigails heart crushed because of this told the court that Elizabeth Proctor had set her soul out and attacked her during the night and stabbed her with a needle. Elizabeth was taken into custody being accused of witchcraft for something she didn't do and John was not going to let his wife die for his sins “ My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts…

love for John Proctor, even though he is a married man. Abigail once yelled at Proctor by saying, “[Elizabeth] is blackening my name in the village...She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her!” (Miller 22). For a long time, Abigail has had bitter thoughts towards Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor. In the past, Abigail even had an affair with John Proctor. As a result, Elizabeth dismissed her from her house; which further…

Abigail cares about her reputation because she doesn’t want to be accused of anything. She put everyone else life in danger just to save her own. “I saw Goody Sibber with the devil.” (pg.118). The end of act one the girls start accusing random people of seeing them with the devil. The girls don’t get accused of witchcraft and Betty wakes up when they start accusing people. That would be a sign that they are lying because she was sleeping until the attention was taken off of her. “Abby, stop it!”…

Your Honesty with everything shows who you truly are. In the crucible there are many different conflicts happening about the same topic. Such as As between Elizabeth and John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Also, the conflict between Tituba and everyone else is part of the whole story. Tituba is Reverend Perris’s slave, she practices what the puritans call “black magic”. When one of the girls named Betty, doesn't wake up one day they start blaming it on Tituba for taking the girls to dance and…

Confession Throughout the whole play The Crucible there has been a cry of witchcraft in the town. Being that none of the townspeople knew the truth, there were many trials going on for weeks. One of the most affected characters in the play is John Proctor, he knew the truth and thought the whole situation was foolish. Now he has been accused of witchcraft, now he has to make a difficult decision whether to tell the truth and die or live a lie. For a moment he caved in and signed a confession…

Isaac Braden was a demon. He hated being summoned but it was a fact of life. If someone learned his true demon name, they could invoke him and once a ritual had been completed, he would be bound to their command for a twenty four hour period. On the All Hollow's Eve, Celtic festival Samhain, Isaac is summoned to a satanic ritual. As the ritual states, he has to choose one blood sacrifice from the three naked men hanging in the underground cave. Only one of them holds Isaac's interest. As much…

Proctor is not able to convince the judges and is thrown into jail. In Act IV, Hale pleads for Elizabeth to help her husband confess to witchcraft so that he will not hang, so she goes to have a talk with Proctor. During their talk, Elizabeth confesses to Proctor, “Only be sure of this, for I know it now: Whatever you will do, a good man does it… It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.” (143). Elizabeth now fully supports Proctor in his choice to confess or not. She also admits that she herself…

automatically evil. This manifests in Abigail as jealousy towards Elizabeth because she is married to John Proctor, whom Abigail has been previously involved with in an illicit affair. Since Abigail was the niece of Reverend Parris,she assumed herself to not be of suspicion of witchcraft, although she and other girls danced in the forest with Tituba. This cockiness was another reason she was so confident in her own jealousy of Elizabeth. Ironically, Abigail is motivated by her own sin when she…