The Relationship Between John Proctor and His Wife Is Not an Easy One

John’s affair created and inner struggle/conflict for him. He was always wanting to what was right but his affair with Abigail constantly held him back. How could he accuse others for doing wrong when he was holding a dirty secret himself? He wanted Abigail’s lies to stop but he couldn’t stop her unless he came out clean. Then finally, one day he couldn’t take it anymore, the guilt was eating him alive and he had to put an end to Abigail’s lies, so he admitted to the court that he had committed lechery. He worked through his fears and struggles and did what was right for a greater cause. But it ended up not doing anything.

In Act 3 you see that he is doing his best to fulfill his promise to

Abigail on the other hand wants John to love her as he loves his wife and wants Elizabeth gone. “With bitter anger; Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife be-” (Act 1, 23). Abigail felt distraught and angry at John when said that he will never see her again as she continues to talk about his wife so John feels guilty among himself. Abigail as well made a poppet in church for Mary Warren to give to Elizabeth as a “gift” although she had stuck a needle in the bottom of the dress by the belly. Abigail earlier that morning had been seen having a needle shoved in the exact same location. “She'll kill me for sayin that! Proctor continues toward her. Abigail charged lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” (Act 2, 80).Handing Elizabeth with a poppet inserted with a needle was the most clever way for Abigail to charged Elizabeth of imposing with craft upon her. Knowing Mary Warren is afraid of her she took advantage of it to steal John Proctor from his wife.

Some students might argue that this early action of John establishes that he loves his wife and tries to please her, but Elizabeth remains separated from him. She appears somewhat aloof or withdrawn. This distance is obviously due to John’s

Elizabeth proctor to give her a poppet that she says she made while in court. Cheever and Herrick arrive at the proctors with a warrant for elizabeth’s arrest because they see that elizabeth has a poppet with a needle in it, abigail accuses elizabeth for stabbing her since abigail was found with a needle in her stomach as well. Hale is around when this happens and he informs elizabeth “Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found stuck into her belly-” Elizabeth then replies “and she charges me” (Miller 72). There is no real evidence to Abigail’s statement, but since elizabeth had a poppet that showed a needle in its

Next, the malignant Abigail tried to strengthen her authority by condemning the righteous Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail professes, “Goody proctor always kept poppets "(Miller 96). She is using poppet to frame Elizabeth Proctor for witchcraft. She wants to murder Elizabeth proctor by framing her, so she can be with John Proctor. The maleficent Abigail also uses her pervious adulterous relationship with John Proctor to try to manipulate him back into her

Abigail's lust for John

John Proctor has just witnessed his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, arrested for attempting to murder Abigail. She was arrested after Herrick found a needle impaled in the belly of the poppet, the same region where Abigail claimed she was stabbed. In this scene, Proctor is angrily moving towards Mary Warren and demands her to tell the truth about the poppet and the person responsible for sticking the needle in the stomach. Mary denies telling the truth because she is afraid that Abigail will be incited to kill her and possibly charge Proctor for carnality. Additionally, Mary knows the power that girls such as Abigail have now acquired and their uses for it will be towards vengeance. If Mary were to anger these girls, they might turn on her and accuse

Elizabeth Proctor faith is put to the test when her husband John cheats on her with their previous servant Abigail . John Proctor says. “It’s winter in here yet.” John is saying that his affair with his servant, Abigail has caused them to grow distant. He wants Elizabeth to forgive him. Elizabeth says, “There be a thousand names; why does she call mine?” Abigail is in love with John therefore she wants to make John think Elizabeth is evil. Which infuriates Elizabeth because she is punished for a sin she didn’t commit. A poppet with a needle in it is planted in the Proctor’s home, which ultimately leads to Elizabeth being put on trial for witchcraft. Elizabeth has time to think while being convicted, and realizes that by judging John she is

Furthermore, Abigail stabbed herself with a needle and explaining that she was stabbed by Elizabeth Proctor’s spirit and that her spirit came to her bedroom and threatened Abigail. Meanwhile, Mary Warren gives a poppet that she made during church to Elizabeth as gift. Additionally, the poppet symbolizes darkness and murder “witchcraft”. Elizabeth gets accused of witchcraft, her house is inspected and the poppet is found with a needle and she gets taken away to jail. For example, “ELIZABETH, quietly: Oh, the noose, the noose is up! PROCTOR: There’ll be no noose. ELIZABETH: She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this! PROCTOR, without conviction: They dismissed it. You heard her say— ELIZABETH : And what of tomorrow? She will cry me out until they take me! PROCTOR: Sit you down. ELIZABETH: She wants me dead, John, you know it!”

John Proctor has always helped out with his family, he has never needed to depend on anybody for anything. Though, he is the man of the house there were problems in his household. John is very strong willed, as well as a man of his word. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” John is ashamed for what he has done by committing the horrid crime of “lechery”, and it results in a rough relationship between John and Elizabeth.

To begin, Mary makes a poppet for Elizabeth Proctor. Therefore, Abigail uses the poppet to frame Elizabeth for witchcraft. Mary helps out Elizabeth, “I saved her life today!....But I said I never seen no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one,” (55). Mary finally agrees to go to court to help John proctor testify against Abigail. The evidence for the poppet does not fall through

The Proctors had a servant, Mary Warren. Abigail and Mary were friends so they went to watch the court session together and made poppets. Mary Warren came home to the Proctor residence and gave the poppet to Elizabeth Proctor the poppet. Abigail ended up accusing Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft so someone had to come search their house. The people searching the Proctors home were looking for poppets, they found the one Mary Warren had made for Elizabeth. The poppet had a needle stabbed into the stomach of the doll. Abigail had earlier been stabbed by a needle in the stomach. She had put this whole plan together so that Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft and would be hung. She did all of this just so she could be John Proctors

John and Abigail appear to have met before. Their conversation reveals that Abigail was once a servant to the Proctors. John had an affair with Abigail behind his wife Elizabeth’s back. Elizabeth then fired Abigail from their household. Abigail, thinking she has formed a mutual love with John, plots to eliminate Elizabeth from standing between them.

Abigail wanted to prove that Elizabeth was a witch so she stabbed herself with a sewing pin. Abigail told John that it is true and that Elizabeth’s spirit came to her at night and stabbed her, in the hopes that John may turn against his wife again. She also tells the court that Elizabeth has a poppet with a pin so that she could have proof that Elizabeth had done this. John asks Mary Warren, the girl who replaced Abigail as the Proctor’s new servant girl, to go against Abigail and tell the court that she herself had made the poppet for Elizabeth and that Elizabeth was not the one who made it.