Mary Warren

punishment for pursuing vengeance. Abigail stabs herself in the stomach with a needle and blames it on the spirit of goody proctor which led to goody proctor’s hanging. Cheever and Herrick show up at proctor’s house and inspects a poppet made by Mary Warren where they find a needle. “Herrick, Herrick, it’s a needle” (Miller 176). This quote is important because it shows Abigail’s devotion to proctor. Giles Corey accuses Putnam of telling his daughter Ruth to accuse his neighbor George Jacobs of…

Throughout the Crucible John Proctor continuously struggles to be a good person in the eyes of himself, and God due to this he constantly changes and evolves as a character. In act one of the Crucible John Proctor is known as a good man who is respected throughout Salem, but privately he was going through multiple difficulties. One problem he had was Abigail. Proctor had an affair with Abigail, and was trying to move on so that he could fix his relationship with his wife. The affair impacted…

Evil in Salem Abigail Williams is the true witch in Salem. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abby manages to take advantage of the entire town. She fools her uncle Reverend Parris, Reverend Hale, John Proctor, even Judge Danforth and Judge Hathorne. Abby and her army of lying little girls have the town wrapped around their fingers. All it takes is a false accusation to take down their enemies. To make matters even worse, other people in the town start to accuse each other of witchcraft as well,…

“seeing” spirits really sold the idea of Witchcraft to Danforth and the rest of the town. That was the only real “proof” that the court had. When Mary Warren admits her and the girls were pretending Abigail refuses to admit it and instead acts like Mary’s spirit is attacking her, “But god made my face ; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.(Miller)” This is one of many times Abigail faked seeing spirits to accuse someone of Witchcraft. This is a big reason many people are…

expectation that she needed to subservient held her back and pressured to maintain her one sided personality, but when she was expected to be in Salem and have power, she was equally able to do so. It was previously thought that Mary was just a subservient girl by nature, but in reality, Mary was capable being both subservient and assertive. She strived to do whatever was expected of her. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller has also reinforced the negative stereotype that women that women were…

Although Abigail does not work she the devil, she still is motivated by her own demons of jealousy. The Salem Witch Trials are a product of theocratic repression that spawned an ideology in which if something wasn’t good, it was 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…

church. he also forgot his ten commandments “thou shalt not commit adultery” which is the one that john committed with abigail. John also had an affair with abigail williams when she lived with him and his wife. and during act 3 he threatens Marry Warren into…

Evidence 2 : proctor also says that he was in a room alone with abigail for a short time before more people come to join them on page 54 Claim 2 : abigail is a faker Evidence 1 : in the book abigail fakes as if the devil is in the room and as if mary warren was trying to hurt her to turn attention off of her onto someone else…

changed as the story progressed. In the very first act of the play she went to the woods to have Tituba send a spirit to kill his wife because she wanted him all to herself. However as the story went on she was accused of lying by Hale, Proctor, and Mary Warren. Which meant that now she had to worry about keeping herself safe from jail or being hanged. Therefore yes Abigail did love John Proctor in the beginning of the play however as the play went on she was focused on staying safe. In the…

In the year 1692, the Salem Witch Trials were held after a group young girls screamed “witch!” About two and a half centuries later, a play would be written on it, with an allegorical story hinting at McCarthyism. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes us back in time to some forty years after the Puritans first arrived in Salem. In it, we are introduced to characters based off of the real people that played a part in the trials, from Giles Corey with his famous “more weight!”…