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    this event to drag it out like Abigail Williams. Later in the play, Reverend Hale comes along and only seemed to make the situation worse. Lastly, Mary Warren started strong, but soon gave in to Abigail’s pressure and began blaming others. Therefore, in The Crucible Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and Mary Warren are largely at fault for the tragedy in Salem. To begin, one of the people most responsible for the continuation of the trials is Abigail Williams. Abigail starts with the lies…

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born August 30, 1797 in London England. She was a english romantic writer with a hint of goth. She was the only child of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley). Mary Shelley’s parents are a strong influence in her writing as well as husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most famous work, Frankenstein is a classic that is still read today in schools and seen in pop culture. Childhood was a little different for Mary being the only child…

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an outstanding writer that to this day many still read her novels and short stories. She is recognized as the daughter of the famous and extraordinary writer Mary Wollstonecraft and a well-known novelist and political philosopher William Godwin (Poetry Foundation 1). She recounts to never have thought of writing, but in fact inherited the talent from her parents, and became an extraordinary author as well. Shelley was mainly influenced to write for the terrible…

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    being beaten again, she lists two other women she “saw” with the devil himself. Sarah Good and Sarah Osburne. Abigail Williams, former servant to the Proctors, told the girls that if they told the truth, there would be consequences. John Proctor tells Mary Warren, current servant to the Proctors, to do just that. John takes her to the courthouse and pushes her to tell the truth. After Mary has told the…

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    3. Mary Shelley, born August 30, 1797, in London, England, is the author of one of the most famous gothic stories in history, “Frankenstein”. Being born to a philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she had a very interesting childhood. Once she credited her career and literary success to her parents saying “"It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity, I should very early in life have thought of writing,""It is not singular…

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    and witch trials were performed in the late 1600’s in Salem, Massachusetts. One character is introduced very early into the play. This character also shows up and/or is mentation in all four acts of the pay this character is no other than Abigail Williams. Cousin to Betty Parris and niece to Reverend Parris. In the first act of the play we are introduced to Abigail who is a young woman of seventeen, and is also an orphan. In the very beginning Abigail seemed like a normal girl who cared about…

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    Mary Warren is one of the Salem girls that was being accused of witchcraft. She was a “seventeen [year old], subservient, naive, lonely girl” (Miller 17). She was accused of being involved in witchcraft by being with Abigail Williams and the other two girls she hung out with. Mary Warren was not a witch it was just the people that accused her of being one that made other people start to actually believe that she was a witch. For example, Mary Warren was one of the girls that was dancing in the…

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    In the “Crucible”, Danforth and Mary Warren have done many things to corrupt their society. Danforth was the Deputy Governor and a judge. Mary Warren was a servant in Proctor's house hold. Judge danforth is more to blame than Mary Warren because he was bias, full of fear and worried about themselves. Judge Danforth is more to blame for his accusation that the defendant was guilty and was bias to Abigail Williams. First, Danforth is on Abigail Williams side. When Judge Danforth says, “ Child I…

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    have people heard the saying ¨don 't judge a book by its cover¨? This common phrase teaches a meaningful lesson. Everyone, one point in their life, has judged something based on its appearance, whether they judged something from food to people. In Mary Shelley 's novel ¨Frankenstein¨ she shows how judging and neglecting someone by their appearance affects their mind in a negative way. The theme of Frankenstein teaches to not judge or alienate someone before getting to know them because it…

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    away screaming or run at him with weapons. He blames Victor for bringing him into this world and then abandoning him, and is furious, just as any other person would be. The creature happens to encounter a young boy who doesn’t run away. This boy, William, speaks with the monster and is not afraid. But the creature happens to find out that the boy is Victor’s brother. So, in a fit of inhuman rage, the creature strangles the small boy to death. It is not monstrous to be angry but he murdered a boy…

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