Elizabeth Proctor Love Analysis

In the beginning of the play Elizabeth Proctor is portrayed as a naïve weak women despite her loyalist to her family and God. Elizabeth was very reserved and introverted which led to her downfall. She was seen as a “doormat” and was emotionally detached from her husband. In the play we learn of Elizabeth's sickness causing her to hire Abigail Williams, while she was sick she became detached from her husband causing him to commit lechery with Abigail Williams. Later we learn that Elizabeth blames her self for Johns Lechery"it needs a cold wife to prompt lechery", (Miller 137). Despite the love for her husband, Elizabeth's inability to express her feelings

In the Proctor household it was always tense and Elizabeth had no trust and was always suspicious of John. As in the play she feels like she can’t trust him at all anymore.“...suddenly lost all faith in him..”(Miller 54) this quote show how she feels about John. Elizabeth

In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible Abigail Williams, an unmarried orphan in the Massachusetts town of Salem, incessantly grows more jealous, her desire for vengeance only grows stronger, and her selfishness escalates. She repeatedly lies to save herself by denying her involvement in witchcraft. Abigail's Jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor intensifies in attempt to realize her desire for Elizabeth's husband John Proctor. In order to save herself she accuses the innocent, without any sense of ethical violation. Abigail proves to be a selfish antagonist in The Crucible that shows no sense of right and wrong.

Throughout the story Elizabeth was seen as a cold person but she was also a very loving person towards the end. After she found out that John had cheated on her with Abby she said,” You’ll tear it free - when you come to know that I will be your only wife, or no wife at all! She has an arrow in you yet, John Proctor, and you know it well!(62)” Here she was giving him a chance to either go to Abby or stay with her. She even lies to the court in order to try to save John. “…Is your husband a lecher! Elizabeth, faintly: No, sir.” He court asked if he had cheated on her and she denied it. There she expresses her great love for John even though he cheated.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible presents Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams who serve important roles through their unique characteristics and thinking. John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, has two defining characteristics that show throughout this play: she not only lives to please everyone around her and behaves passively, but she lacks the assertiveness to confront what lies directly under her nose. However, Abigail, the girl John Proctor commits the crime of adultery with, manipulates those around her. She is keen to act upon an opportunity when one arises and feels a determination to get her way. While Elizabeth and Abigail are similar in their love for John Proctor, Elizabeth differs from Abigail through her tendency to try to please everyone and keep her own emotions bottled up, while Abigail believes the world revolves around her and works to make things go her own way.

Abigail proclaims her guilt by revealing her character and purpose. She is mad in love with John Proctor, and attempts to sway his feelings for her. She speaks to him with a brimming passion, and even cries for his attention (Arthur Miller, The Crucible, Act I, 21,22). Even though Proctor is a married man, she strives to make him fall in love with her. Proctor’s wife Elizabeth asserts that, “...She (Abigail) cannot pass you in church but you will blush” and she believes he blushes, feeling the guilt of being too close to Abigail while she is beside him (Act II, 58,59). Abigail’s conduct is improper and shows her obvious guilt.

Elizabeth Proctor can be viewed as the most loyal woman in the play. In spite of the fact that her better half, John Proctor, admitted to having an affair with their housekeeper, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth was still devoted to John. At the point, when Elizabeth was questioned as to whether her significant other, John, was having an affair behind her back, she lied for him and denied it. When Danforth stated, "To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery?” and Elizabeth reacted, "No, sir". Elizabeth had never lied before this incident, yet she did now, to save her cheating spouse. Elizabeth is a strong woman who took the fault for something that she was not associated with. She thought she was the reason behind on why her husband cheated, ”I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery". Elizabeth is portrayed as a woman with a strong, loyal character and a faithful wife, yet she has her flaws

Her husband only wants her to find complete forgiveness in her heart and to put the incident behind her. Elizabeth’s pride is illustrated when she would not confess that John Proctor had an affair with Abigail. This is described in the quote, “Elizabeth: ‘Your Honor, I-in that time I were sick. And I- My husband is a good and righteous man’ Danforth: ‘Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!’ Elizabeth: ‘No, sir.’ This quote demonstrates that Elizabeth has too much pride to bring shame upon her family. Her pride is unjustifiable because she instead of telling the truth, Elizabeth lies to Danforth, therefore condemning both herself and her husband. John John would rather be put to death than ruin his reputation and integrity in himself, “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!

The loving wife, Elizabeth Proctor, is married to John Proctor whom which she bears three young boys with. Elizabeth Proctor is a moral Christian women who stands strong in her faith. As a women in this time period, Elizabeth didn’t actually have a job, she was the caretaker of her family. Elizabeth loves her husband, she loves him so much that she

After having an affair with John Proctor, she couldn’t accept not being without him. Abigail also admires “how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife” like Elizabeth be unaware of the affair she had with John Proctor(act1pg#). As a result to the affair, Proctor is trying to rebuild his marriage with his wife. Abigail continues to intervene in John Proctors marriage and attempts to manipulate Proctor so he would confess his love for her. Proctor admits his love for her, but does not continue his affection because Abigail seeps of vengeance for other individuals. He portrays her “as a lump of vanity” who thinks to dance on his “wife’s grave!”(act 3). For her own selfish desires, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft and tries to intentionally sabotage her. She does this for the purpose of her own selfish and fictitious relationship that she has with Proctor. Abigail believes she has the capability to influence Proctor, but her egoistic actions to win his undefining love makes her appear as the criminal in the

Elizabeth Proctor Have you ever been hurt, or conflicted because of something from the past? That’s what has happened to John Proctor to make Elizabeth Proctor feel this way. Her husband, John Proctor hurt Elizabeth, when he commits adultery in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. During the story, Elizabeth Proctor endures multiple experiences by, extreme conflict, exploring her actions, elaborates motivations, and enacts changes. Elizabeth faces extreme conflict during The Crucible when she figures out her husband, John Proctor lies to her about being alone with Abigail the night they talk when Elizabeth asking "You were alone with her?"

Proctor desperately desires forgiveness from his wife, but whether he’s earned it or not, she struggles to let go of her hurt. Although their marriage isn’t the best, Elizabeth is John’s moral compass. Whenever her husband is confused she prompts him onto the path of Justice.

In the Crucible, John Proctor has two lovers, Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams who fight for his love indirectly. Unfortunately for Abigail, Elizabeth is married to John, so the only way she could gain John's love is for Elizabeth to be out of the picture. Even though John had an affair with Abigail, he was a good man to tell his wife the truth and not stayed with her. Both women had different personalities, which is what may have caused John to cheat on his wife due to their stale relationship. Throughout the play, Elizabeth appears to be a character foil of Abigail representing good and evil.

Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are clear antipodes of each other. While Elizabeth is the epitome of a good, godly woman, Abigail is the direct opposite, constantly lying and blaming others for her own benefit. Elizabeth continually is selfless, honest, and loyal to those around, while Abigail could not care less. Abigail and Elizabeth clearly seem to resemble the differences between right and wrong. Over the course of the play, both characters prove to be foils of each other through their strikingly contrasting actions and character traits, and overall have an effect on the play.

Within “The Crucible,” the issues of Elizabeth and Proctor’s relationship are factors in the instigation of the plot of the story. Due to Proctor’s affair with Abigail, a wedge is driven between Proctor and his wife and will prove to be the initiator of the Salem Witch Trials, as it is in “The Crucible.” An effect of this affair is shown in the second scene when Elizabeth is first introduced. Proctor comes home from his day of work and the tension between the two is seen