Elizabeth Smart

The Crucible Essay In the novella of The Crucible by Arthur Miller name is a defiant significance in how it has lots of power to one's identity. Proctor has always wanted to protect his name and especially his family. In addition his family is getting targeted due to the troubles of him sleeping with Abigail Williams which tests his reputation. “Why, Abigail Williams charge her” (Miller 77). Cheever is telling Proctor how his wife is getting called out as a witch due to his troubles. Most often…

while lacking morality. In addition, we see him whipping his servant who is still a young girl with such violence. There is a great disparity between this physical punishment and the principles of goodness and decency. John Proctor also accuses Elizabeth of being too much cold with him. He always is nervous when he talks to her. He talks angrily with Mary when she returns home after having gone Salem: "I'll whip you if you dare leave this house again" ). He acts like a bad-tempered man Cachete…

which are depicted in this novel. One of the main characters in the novel, Elizabeth Bennett, is by far the one who emphasizes the most inspiration and rebellion. There are many circumstances in which she rebels against the social…

relationship began without them seeing eye-to-eye and it took almost until the end of the book for them to finally meet an understanding. Mr. Darcy, with his pride, didn 't seem to understand the kind of woman Elizabeth was because he was only focused on her socioeconomic status, and Elizabeth didn 't understand Mr. Darcy because of the lies she believed from Wickham.They didn 't begin to reach an understanding…

bounteous foil characters in The Crucible, but the two that contrast the most just so happen to also have something in common. Elizabeth Proctor is honest, kind, and soft-spoken while Abigail Williams is a manipulative liar, ruthless, and emotionally unstable, making them completely different except for when it comes to their love for John Proctor. In The Crucible Elizabeth rarely lies and is kind, but Abigail is great at misrepresenting the truth and is ruthless. One example of this is when…

Throughout the tragic play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, one person’s want for something or someone can cause a peaceful town to turn into a town of accusations and death. In The Crucible, a sleepy village of Salem, Massachusetts, sits calmly next to the Atlantic Ocean until one night the people who seemed to be normal cried witchcraft. Abigail Williams, Reverend Paris’ niece, leads the group of people who are crying witchcraft. Her relationship to Reverend Paris hits close to Salem which…

When the name John Proctor is brought up, a lot of words come to mind. At the beginning of the play The Crucible I did not like John Proctor at all. He seemed to be the type of person that did things that nobody liked. He had a dark side to him. For example, he had an affair with Abigail Williams. This dark side almost led to the death of his wife. Towards the end of Act Three, John Proctor started to grow on me because he started making better choices towards the different situations he was put…

not out of obligation. The novel offers a spectrum of perspectives, both male and female, from which a picture of 1800’s England can be gathered. Of these perspectives, the two polar opposite personalities are those of Mrs. Bennet and her daughter Elizabeth Bennet. Mrs. Bennet represents everything society pushes women to be. She is consumed by the world of keeping up appearances, and lives to further the social statuses of her kin. Mrs. Bennet, though very much a caricature of social pressures,…

of their beauty, whether it be physical or not. Having this understanding, and using it wisely, enables all three women to obtain the worldly goods, and marital partner(s) they desire. Starting with Moll, and moving in a chronological order via Elizabeth to Jane, this paper seeks to examine the ways in which these women use their assets to control their lives, and the men they spend them with. From an early age, Moll Flanders is a vain, manipulative girl, who is aware…

During a person’s lifetime, he or she will have integrity and a reputation. According to Dictionary.com, reputation is the “the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally” while integrity is the “adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.” Even in fictional stories characters have their own reputations and integrity. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Devil and Tom Walker,” and The Crucible, a reader…