If a husband cheated on a wife would the wife forgive him? Elizabeth Proctor is a dynamic character in The Crucible. During the era of the Salem witch trials people wanted to keep their reputations clean and not have others think of them badly. If you had a bad reputation then you would be ignored or worse get accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth Proctor loved her husband but she was blinded by his mistakes.In the end she looked past his mistake and found that she truly loved him and didn’t want anything…
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neighbors of witchcraft. And the Crucible is a play of the witch trials in Salem. The people of Salem would find any reason to accuse someone that they did not like of being a witch, just as a means of getting revenge. Some believe the ideas of witchcraft in Salem, while others do not. The young girls are believed to be telling the truth when they pretend to be conjured by spirits so they can accuse anyone that they do not like of casting their spirits onto them. In the Crucible Abigail Williams is in love…
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In the play “The Crucible” By: Arthur Miller it has many important people that played a big part in the play. For example John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor is a 30 year old farmer. John is married to Elizabeth. John had an affair with Abigail but later on tried ending the affair with Abigail. John views himself as a sinner ”He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct.”(Miller, 468) John’s motivation is that he’s…
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Elizabeth Proctor is famed as a character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Lesser known is the fact that before Miller wrote his novel, Elizabeth Proctor lived and breathed. She was a married woman with two children and one soon to come. Her husband was hanged during the witch trials before she gave birth. However, the true Elizabeth and the character in Miller’s work are not necessarily one in the same. The real Elizabeth and her fictional representation went through the same trials and tribulations…
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table partner believes Elizabeth Proctor plays the role of an Innocent wife. She thinks that Elisabeth Proctor is innocent for these reasons. For example in Act two her husband John Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams was there slave until Mrs.Proctor told her husband that she wanted a new slave. The second example is she accused of witchcraft, because Abigail wanted revenge on her for being in their house. The last example is Abigail set up Elizabeth Proctor up by giving…
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Opening in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692, The Crucible, an American playwright written by Arthur Miller, portrays a historical event known as the Salem Witch Trials and how exactly it could have began. The play begins with us finding out about a young girl who is giving strange symptoms of an unknown sickness. The villagers suspect witchcraft but little do they know about how the night before a few girls in the village snuck out into woods where they made a potion, with the help of black…
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Moreover, Abigail charges Elizabeth Proctor with witchcraft because she was stabbed in the stomach with a need while sitting at the dinner table. Elizabeth Proctor is a faith based woman and would never consider having anything to do with the devil. Abigail was lying because she only wanted Elizabeth locked up or hanged, so she could have John Proctor for herself. The whole time in court Abigail smiles and is pleased with the rulings; until Elizabeth turns out to be pregnant and will only sit in…
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Elizabeth proctor and Abigail Williams are two very important characters to the crucible. They’re very different from each other, which means they are even more important to the story because of what they cause in the end. Abigail is a foil to Elizabeth Abigail Williams is antagonist who got caught dancing in the woods. She tries to lie and blame other people for her wrong doing because she doesn’t want to be the only person to blame. This shows that she is a deceitful and manipulative person…
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The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, takes place in a Puritan town in Salem, Massachusetts. The play is about the Salem witch trials that took place between 1692 and 1693 and how out of fear and pressure, a group of teenage girls accused numerous women and men of participating in witchcraft. One of the women who was accused was Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor had turned into a cold and frigid woman after finding out about John and Abigail William’s affair…
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Elizabeth Proctor is an Important character in Arthur MIllers' 'The Crucible'. She began as the cause of the events that took place, though the drama that unfolded throughout the play was much more than than simply the proctor household Elizabeth was the root cause for the hangings that affected multiple famiies and many innocent people were hung on false accusations. Elisabeth had stood in the way of what abigail desired, john proctor, were it not for their marrige abigail would have no need to…
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