Death Sentence: Evelyn's Disappearance

In 1983 Elizabeth Bouvia, who was a 26-year-old quadriplegic who was affected by cerebral palsy, entered a hospital in Riverside, California wishing to starve herself to death. Elizabeth Bouvia suffered from cerebral palsy and severe arthritis causing her to be in chronic pain and close to being completely paralyzed. Bouvia was only able to make movement in some fingers on her right hand and make a few facial movements. Elizabeth Bouvia was unable to sit up and could only lay flat causing her to be confined to her bed, and further causing her to depend on others for even the simplest of tasks. Bouvia relied on others to feed her, bathe her, and help her defecate. Bouvia had no one in her life able to care for her around the clock like she needed, so out of options Bouvia entered Riverside General Hospital.

An Inspector Calls is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, and focuses on the Birling family, who live in a wealthy but not particulary homely house in Brumley. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family. The idea of the play, and particularly the role of the inspector, is to try to bring the Birling family to understand that they have a moral responsibility for the death of Eva Smith, if not a legal one. In Act Three, the Inspector tells the Birling family: “The girl killed herself and died a horrible death. But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.” But who was really the

John is Elizabeth’s husband and they have children this is why she loves him, but Abigail only loves John out of lust. John loved Elizabeth and always tried to make up for the wrong he had done and show her how he did not want anyone but her. John never showed Abigail attention in that way again; he hated Abigail and knew he never loved her that he had just lusted after her. Elizabeth always tries to do what is best for John even if it means raising children, keeping up a house, and providing on her own for the family. Elizabeth knows the truth will always be brought out there is no use in telling a lie. Just like Abigail and John’s untruth was eventually brought about all other untruths will be. Abigail always resolves to lying to try and get her way, but Elizabeth always told the truth even if it meant being in prison for innocence. All Abigail wanted is what she could not have, but her untruthfulness lead to the death of the one person she cared for other than herself. Abigail was believed by many when Elizabeth was believed by

However, for a period of his life, John cheated on her with Abigail Williams. John ended the affair, and Abigail was not happy about it. She was hoping that John would leave Elizabeth, and marry her. When John ended the relationship, Abigail became extremely jealous of Elizabeth. She wanted her dead. So since John made her upset, Abigail accused Elizabeth of being a witch so that she would be hanged, and her and John could finally be together. After John was hanged for his “crimes” people started to be skeptical of the witch trials. Abigail suspected this would happen, and she knew that people would come after her to avenge the innocent people who

Logically, John is at fault for the affair, because nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to cheat on his wife, and middle-schoolers aren't really practiced seductresses. However, Arthur Miller was using the events of the Salem witch trials to make a point about contemporary society, so he leveled a certain amount of guilt Elizabeth's way (for not holding her husband properly) and Abigail's way (for being the source of all evil). The text gives you room to make any argument you choose. Truth won't hold all of them, but that's fiction for you…

Colonialism is an ongoing practice that is marginalizing indigenous communities because of their race, class, gender, and sexuality. Qwo-li Driskill et al quoted Rayna Green claiming “that colonial discourses represent Native women as sexually available for white men’s pleasure” (34). From their first contact the Europeans through to the present day, Aboriginal, Indigenous, and First Nations women have been categorized and seen as Other. Sarah Hunt employs in her analysis a form of postcolonial critique used by Edward Said, who argues in Orientalism (1978) that there exist constructs of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes towards racialized others, including Indigenous groups, rooted in Eurocentric prejudice, serving as an implicit

Abigail came right out to John and told him there was no witchcraft. If he had told someone what Abby had said before they started the trials, all of the innocent people that died wouldn’t have been hanged. This is why John Proctor is responsible for the witch hysteria.

The Hanging of Angélique, The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal, written by Afua Cooper, is the story of not just

Another argument you might use to disprove that it was Abigail fault, would be to blame the courts, their misunderstanding, and their willingness to accept the false statements of Abigail and the girls.The courts had a big part in these trials, and it is evident that they did not consider the distant possibility that the young girls were lying to get out of the whole. As for Elizabeth Proctor’s encounters with Abigail to hate Elizabeth for standing in her way to do things. The truth was Elizabeth and Abigail which was John’s third wife barely knew each other.

She was hired to work for John and was innocently tempted. John was older than Abby and any older man is more likely to go to a younger girl. A lot of the blame is put on John for committing adultery, but is just as much Abby’s fault

Every police investigation starts off by looking for anyone who might have had a motive to break the law. For years, this has been a technique in the judicial system. As Elizabeth Proctor is accused, only one person ever stops to think of someone who might have the desire to lie. We learn in the book that Abigail has had an emotional and physical affair with John Proctor. John was married to Elizabeth and he knew his actions were unethical, therefore, he stopped his emotional

Murderers aren’t murderers when they’re hiding. Murderers aren’t murders when they haven’t been caught. Or so that is what they say, but if they say that then what is Abigail Williams hiding from? And if she’s hiding from something then will her lies protect her or just hide the people she’s killing from finding out the truth? Abigail Williams and the Witchcraft trials feature people being hanged because they are thought to be practicing something that’s not Christian. And Abigail Williams goes along with that idea and lying and continues to lie even when it results in people dying. Abigail Williams is guilty even if others are to blame it doesn’t excuse the fact that she did what she did. A compulsive liar is what makes her brain spin.

John knew the accusation was made only because of his affair with her. Abigail felt that if Elizabeth was out of picture, John would be fond of her once again. When Mary told John about the lies Abigail was up to, John knew he had to make things right and do anything to save his wife. He felt this way because Elizabeth was good to him through everything he has put her through emotionally. “my wife will never die for me.” (174). This quote means that Proctor refuses to let Elizabeth die because of something he did. Further on in the play, Proctor tries to convince the court that Abigail is lying about there being a devil in Salem. Even though John told the court about his affair with Abigail, they decided to believe the

Bearing all that in mind, Adam did all that by himself. While Evelyn sat there encouraging him but not forcing him to do anything. For example, when Adam and Evelyn were in the doctor’s office, Evelyn tells Adam that they “don’t have to stay [there]” (62 Labute). But in the end they did and Adam received a nose surgery. Everything that Evelyn said was a lie but the matter of fact is that her lies were consistent.

Aletta’s retirement from the Azure Order shown to be a humdrum one - now that her life's work were in the hands of another - governing her to seek direction in another field. Hence, tutoring had struck her fancy; as it allowed her to reminisce on her long since departed father, and breed the next generation of Azure Order members. The means to Aletta’s demise is one enveloped around speculation, wherein accounts mention her greeting the Spirit upon an encounter with a rogue mage that ignited her robes, another entails she was assassinated by a political rival, nevertheless one factor remains constant; Aletta’s body was never laid to rest, nor has it ever been found to his date.