Elizabeth of York

cell. John Proctor is to be hanged for being a “victim” of the devil’s without confessing. However, further into the story, Proctor establishes plans to confess. He asks his wife, Elizabeth, what she thinks for his thought to confess a lie in order to save his own life, as well as, inquiring her for her forgiveness. Elizabeth simply replies that she would not judge him and that it is not her forgiveness to give, rather, he should forgive himself. As Proctor made his lead towards confessing,…

Proctor tries to confess his sins and save his wife by telling the court “my wife is innocent, except she knew a whore when she saw one” (1331). Although Proctor clearly tells the court the truth, Elizabeth was questioned and she told a different story thinking she would help her husband. In his final moments Proctor exclaims “I have given you my soul; leave me my name”(1357). At the end of the play, Hale does not redeem himself as Proctor refused to…

Throughout all of the literary works that we studied this semester, there have been plenty of impactful decisions that our characters have had to make. One decision in particular was Medea’s decision to kill her two children after she has killed the King and Jason’s mistress, the Princess. Medea has been left by her husband Jason, and in a fit of rage she begins to devise a plan to poison both Jason and his new wife. Trying many times to analyze this decision, it becomes difficult to understand…

“When Miller was summoned before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, he, contrary to Kazan, did not name any names. His experience led him to write his play about the Salem witch trials, … He considers that the play is still of alarming relevance, speaking directly about religious fanaticism… What happened in Salem in 1692 should be seen in the context of the puritan dream of recovering a lost paradise, even if in an austere and vain way. The devil appears precisely in…

to be saved. There is one such character who questions everything that the court does, but does not say a word about it. This character is Elizabeth Proctor who is John Proctor’s wife. Throughout the third act she questions the fact that the court believes Abigail Williams and if she should tell the court that her husband committed adultery. In Salem, Elizabeth Proctor was considered a holy and chaste woman. She followed the Ten Commandments, prayed, and never lied. When judge Danforth…

the Proctors. Elizabeth Proctor found out that Abigail and John were having an affair and kicked her out. When Abigail was kicked out, she became furious. She wanted revenge. If she accused Elizabeth of witchcraft, she would be gone and Abigail believed that John would run to her. One day in court, Mary Warren was sewing a poppet for Elizabeth. Abigail saw her place the needle in the poppet’s stomach for safe keeping and used it to her advantage. After the poppet was given to Elizabeth, Abigail…

jailed. Abigail is shown to be manipulative and selfish but most importantly she is jealous. It seems as if she would go into great lengths to get what she wanted as well: “ Hale. Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found stuck in her belly. Elizabeth. And she charges me? (2.1107 - 1109) ” In order to get her point across, Abigail Williams pretends to get bewitched. Her lying and manipulation skills is what led others to believe what she said even though everything she said was…

nature they bring to the environments that live in. One example of Abigail’s power hungriness is when she is talking to John Proctor About how Elizabeth is ruining her name. “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Act II pg.26). Abigail makes it look like she's mad at Elizabeth for ruining her name but really she just wants John to leave her so she can have him all to herself. This is a prime example of…

The novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The Crucible by Arthur Miller can be connected by two major ways. One of those ways are by how the character's choices lead them both to death. In The Awakening, the main character Edna Pontellier wants to free herself from what society thinks about her. She makes life changing choices that has some major consequences that come along with her. Edna believes that if she can make some life changing choices then she would be happier and what people think…

In Comparison to the association previously made between the The Crucible and Oleanna, the article by Catherine Burr titled “False Allegations of Sexual Harassment: Misunderstandings and Realities” presents similar ideas on how figures of high authority tend to take advantage over the minority using their power, in terms of sexual abuse. The article alludes towards the impacts of power over others and how manipulation can damage a person's career. Similarly in The Crucible, when Abigail blames…