At the point when the group of onlookers is initially acquainted with Proctor in Act I, he has a discussion with Abigail. This scene uncovers to the group of onlookers that they had been as one preceding and that Proctor has submitted infidelity with Abigail. In the following Act, Proctor discovers that his better half has been blamed for witchcraft, and Abigail is the person who has made the allegation. In some way or another, Proctor realizes that it is his blame that the allegation was made. He reprimands Abigail and promises to make it right.
Within Act 2, the most momentous event in my eyes was the warrant sent out for Elizabeth Proctors arrest. The element that surprised me the most was not the fact Elizabeth was arrested. But the fact that girls like Abigail are so afraid to get in trouble that they will do almost anything, including blaming it on other people like Elizabeth Proctor to avoid the truth. Because of the accusations they have given out, the town has put these girls on a pedestal where they have achieved an unnecessary and strange amount of authority over women in the Salem community. The following quote from Elizabeth on page fifty-five shows her awareness of Abigail and the other girls influence in the court, “The town’s gone wild, I think.
Early 1692 around January or February Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams started to have strange behavior. They behaved like animals and claimed to have pains and sickness. Ann Putnam, Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis also started to behave in a similar manner. The town folks began to worry about the girls, the doctor blamed it on supernatural things. They believed in witchcraft and the devil, the girls blamed it on a slave named Tituba, a beggar named Sarah good and Sara Osborne.
I think Abigail is to blame for the hysteria at the end of Act 1, because she accuses other people, lies, and tries to get what she wants. First, when Abigail says, “If they be questioning us tell them we danced- I told him as much already.”(18). Abigail is telling the other girls to lie to Reverend Parris about what happened in the woods that night he saw them. Fear is used to scare the girls into lying even though what they did was wrong, Abigail doesn’t want to lose the power of controlling and “witchcraft”. Secondly, Abigail is speaking to John Proctor saying, “Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife be-.”(24).
This angered Abigail and made more conflict in the play. So in a vengeful way she turned Elizabeth in for trying to kill her through witchcraft. If Abigail would stop all of this nonsense and accept that John Proctor has a loving wife, this conflict would
This was the case when two girls became “possessed.” According to Salem Witch Trials, the two girls were home alone, under the watch of Tituba, a slave. When their parents returned, they were having fits and screaming. As reported by the girls, Tituba showed them magic tricks and spells, and must have cursed them, trying to turn them to the Devil’s side, but they were resisting. They accused Tituba, along with Sarah Good and Bridget Bishop.
Proctor then reveals Abigail’s actions, jealousy and desire, “She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat”(p 110) . Abigail’s jealousy caused a lot of damage in the town, as she tries to kill
She is accused of witchcraft, and naturally Abigail tries to take the blame off of herself. But she goes a bit too far. Abigail starts accusing everyone, but one person she is particularly interested in is Elizabeth Proctor. Since Abigail and John Proctor
In 1692, in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, there was a group of young girls who were accused of being bewitched. The girls behaved in abnormal ways. The strange behavior began after Reverend Parris caught them in the woods with Tituba, who was Parris’s slave from Barbados. The girls called witchcraft on Tituba and she confessed and named two other women with the devil, including Sarah Osburne and Sarah Good. With Tituba's confession, the young girls, scared of getting in trouble, claimed to see other women and men contributing with the devil.
This implies that everyone should trust his judgment simply because of his prior experience and knowledge of witchcraft and the devil's practices. Another significant factor in the hysteria was people holding personal grudges against one another. The play displays Abigail's love for John Proctor and her hatred for Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail and Proctor had previously had an affair, and Abigail is now in love with him. During the play, it is noticed that Abigail has vendettas against Elizabeth and wants her dead.
Abigail told Reverend Parris that they were just dancing and that they didn’t do anything else. However, Reverend Parris didn’t believe her and ask Reverend Hale, an expert on witchcraft, for help. Reverend Parris didn’t want to be accused witchcrafts happening in house so he tried to calm the people of Salem. Later on, Abigail talks to some of the girls and told them that they were only dancing and nothing else and if they didn’t cooperate with her she would murder them. Then John Proctor, a local farmer, came to Reverend Parris’s house and end up alone with Abigail who was blamed and kicked out of John’s house for having affair with him.
Next, Abigail shows her true evil side in Act II when she frames Elizabeth Proctor for witchcraft. She knows that accusing someone of witchery is not hard at this point and anyone she doesn’t like can be hung, that’s why she goes after Elizabeth. The audience learned from Cheever that Abigail has charged Elizabeth Proctor as a witch. It turns out that while at dinner in the Parris household, Abigail fell to the floor in agonizing pain, and a needle was pulled out of her stomach by Parris. Cheever restates what happened at the dinner table to the Proctors, “...
For example, Abigail Williams had an affair with John Proctor who was married to Elizabeth Proctor at the time and got discovered. However, Abigail Williams still “loved” John Proctor and was rejected. Later, she accuses Elizabeth Proctor for witchcraft, an action she uses as her revenge. These acts of cruelty ultimately affect all the victims and their families in this play as their consequence is to be hung. The vulnerability and sense of helplessness are all revealed in the victims as they are facing their
Patrick Lin’s article Here’s a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars with Adjustable Ethics Settings discusses the “moral dilemma” (Lin, 2014) that autonomous vehicles introduce into the world. The root of the ethical problem is in the event of an inevitable collision or crash who does the vehicle make the decision to save. The question suggests the concepts of egoism and utilitarianism, (both previously discussed in this course), the different possibilities based on what split-second decision the autonomous vehicle makes, and the fact that there is no easy solution to this dilemma.
Abigail 's heartless attitude is shown in act two when she frames and accuses Elizabeth Proctor for witchcraft. She desired and longed for this revenge on poor Proctors innocent wife, aiming for her through out the play. Later on in Act Three she seems to lose her last attachment of society by destroying John Proctor, who she claims to love with all her heart. When John attempts and threatens to expose Abigail’s wrong doings, she skillfully manages to turn the whole problem around on him, sending him off
