The Crucible By William Shakespeare

Another huge character flaw within Abigail is the fact she is jealous of Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife. Abigail quotes, “I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through the door.” Abigail is showing a little bit of lust within this sentence but also jealousy. The reason why she is jealous in this sentence is the fact that she wants what Elizabeth has, to wake up and see

Abigail is motivated by boredom, need of attention and obsession with John Proctor. Abigail says, “I know you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near.” (Miller, p.14/15).

Abigail is a highly jealous character, concentrating her jealousy on Elizabeth Proctor. This jealousy is driven by lust and her desire for John Proctor. Abigail served as a servant in the Proctor household and after an affair with her husband John, Elizabeth fired her. She still resents Elizabeth for this as she is still in love with John. She clearly says to John, "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" Abigail is still in love with John and she assumes the converse. Her love for John only causes her resentment for Elizabeth to strengthen. She hates John Proctor's wife and in her conniving ways she attempts to inspire the same views of Elizabeth in John's mind. Saying things to him such as, "She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me, She is a cold, sniveling woman." Abigail fabricates stories in attempt to steel John from Elizabeth. She is a manipulative liar that does and says as she pleases in order to get what she wants.

Arthur Miller states "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." The quote of this meaning is that people are falsely accused, but they may be innocent. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is a play based upon events that occurred in Salem circa 1690s. Through Abigail Williams, Miller was trying to state the injustice in Salem because she targeted the innocent people, leading to their death. Many of the conflicts that occurred in the play were caused by Abigail Williams. Abigail's jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor was triggered by Elizabeth's husband John Proctor. Abigail was a hypocrite because she used the name of the Lord for her own interests. She lied in order to save herself by denying her involvement in witchcraft. The character selected is Abigail Williams because of her three main character flaws which are jealousy, hypocrisy, and mendacity.

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.

A famous quote from Kellie Lynn, states that, “ Betrayal… Doesn’t only break your heart but, also darkens your soul. You’ll never forget the pain like a fog that forever lingers in the depths of your mind”. In a play that Arthur Miller wrote and called, The Crucible there is pandemonium reeking in Salem. A young girl, Abigail Williams whom was a servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor, but get thrown out is found in the woods with other girls dancing around a pot. This mysterious action concerns some people. The next morning, a few girls, don’t wake. This induces mayhem, a reverend is called, and the girls start accusing other ladies of witchery and having deals with the devil. Among the girls that were dancing in the forest there is one called Mary Warren, she is the servant that replaces Abigail for the Proctors. She later joins the court and tries to determine right and wrong. Using Abigail Williams and MAry Warren, Arthur Miller illustrates the lesson of betrayal and conveys the theme that betrayal leads to broken relationships.

Abigail represents jealousy and lust. In the beginning of the play the audience learns that her and Proctor had an affair. Abigail lusts for John Proctor in Act one. She yearns, “I have a sense for heat, John, and yours has drawn me to my window” (23). She is constantly thinking, talking and dreaming about John Proctor. She is drawn to him. She even blurts out angrily after Proctor shuts her down, “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near. Or did I dream that?” (22). She taunts and compliments him, trying her best to get him to love her again. Abigail is jealous that Proctor likes his wife, Elizabeth, better than her. The audience learns that Elizabeth fires Abigail, who at the time

Arthur Miller has created John Proctor the protagonist of The Crucible to be a 30 year old farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led. John speaks his mind when he recognizes injustice. He is highly respected, even feared, by some in Salem. His name is synonymous with honour and integrity. He takes pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and is respected for it. However John is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time but against his own vision of decent conduct, he has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud. After admitting to lechery, John is accused of witchcraft, on this charge he is condemned.

In the play of the crucible by Arthur Miller was about the witch trial in salem, massachute. A teenage girl named Abigail fell in love with a married guy named John Proctor. Abigail is doing everything to win John Proctor heart and be john proctor wife. Everything went wrong and she started to lie by accusing innocent people for being witches. Innocent people are getting hang up because of Abigail and her friends lies. The author's purpose of this play is to inform the audience about what happened during salem witch trials.

Fear can cause people to make bad decisions causing the situation to worsen. According to the play The Crucible is about a group of girls who were caught practicing witchcraft who were forced to tell lies about the devil forcing them to participate in villainous actions and then forced to name those involved in the fear of being hanged by the court. Head of the group was a young woman named Abigail Williams, who was infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his wife. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller personifies Abigail Williams as a manipulative character as seen when she successfully manages to convince the court that Elizabeth and other innocent citizens work with the devil and how she controlled the group of girls into pretending to have encounters with evil spirits of the accused. Arthur Miller wrote the play as an allegory of the McCarthyism in the 1950s. Focusing on the inconsistencies of the Salem witch trials in seventeenth-century in Salem Massachusetts, and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires.

Through beautiful and edgy wordings, the play by Arthur Miller tells a story about witchcraft, which metaphorically discusses the political issue during that time. Set in 1692, this is at the time when the Puritans are most scared and hated the witchcraft. According to Abigail, one of the girls that call out people, she sees “Sarah Good with the Devil,” and worse; she continues to lie that she sees “Goody Osburn with the Devil” (Miller 48). Without evidence, the accusation still goes on, and it blinds the judges with their flawless dishonesty. Nonetheless, many innocent people have become the victims of these evil lies, for the girls to have the power in their hands. Indeed, The Crucible is metaphorically about

Despite Abigail pretending she’s angry at Elizabeth Proctor for tarnishing her reputation in the town. She is more envious of Elizabeth and her marriage to John Proctor. Here she resorts to paltry name-calling in order to cast suspicion in John’s

While The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is only a four act play, it still resembles the format of a five act play. The five-act structure evolved from a three-act structure, which was made famous by Roman Aelius Donatus. Donatus came up with three types of plays: Protasis, Epitasis, and Catastrophe. The five-act structure helped to expand the three act structure, mainly made famous by Shakespeare through his many tragedies. Even though The Crucible contains only four acts, it still has the common composition of a five act play: an exposition, followed by the rising action, the climax, the falling action, closing with the denouement.

The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller. The people were faced with severe test or trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 because of actuation of witchcrafts. Arthur Miller reveals how it is better to die with honor rather than lie to live in the characters Rebecca Nurse , Giles Corey and John Proctor.

of them can attain being imprisoned and even when they do battle to determine who wins Emily’s hand that is ultimately left to fate as the gods intervene when Arcite initially wins the bout. They make no attempt, as romantic heroes, to romance the object of their affection. Furthermore, despite the Knight’s tale being a romance, its center is more on the competition between the two men as opposed to the relationship Emily would have with one of them. Chaucer devotes two pages to their argument on who deserves Emily more, Arcite who loves towards her is a “love as to a creature” or Palamon whose love Arcite mocks as an “affeccioun of hoolynesse ”. It is this lack of agency and the different affections that Chaucer subverts in the Miller’s