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Examples Of Manipulation In The Crucible

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The Power of Manipulation: The Dark Side of This Common Word Have you ever felt like you were being controlled or used? Have you ever felt like you were being lied to for someone to get what they want? Maybe you didn’t even realize it was happening. If you have ever found yourself in this situation, you were probably being manipulated. Manipulation is the act of controlling or influencing a person or situation cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously. Manipulation is shown and demonstrated numerous times throughout The Crucible. Throughout the play, it is displayed between Abigail and nearly everyone involved in the Salem witch trials by threatening her friends and convincing people of deadly apparitions that aren’t there. Abigail manipulated the entire town of Salem to get rid of people she didn’t like. The first thing she did was manipulate her friends into not talking about how she drank blood. During Act Ⅰ of The Crucible, Abigail says, “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible …show more content…

When John Proctor and Mary Warren were trying to prove that the girls are lying Abigail starts crying out about a bird flying around the top of the courtroom. Abigail yells, “Why—? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird (Miller, PG#)? The only person she is not fooling is John Proctor. He knows that she is bluffing as he says, “They're pretending, Mr. Danforth (Miller, PG#)! We also see that she manipulates the other little girls into mirroring her actions. Anything that Mary Warren said, Abigail, repeated. The girls soon caught on and did the same. Once Abigail had the girls under her belt, all she needed was Mary Warren. When Mary Warren knew there was no way to convince Danforth, she turned on John Proctor and mimicked Abigail's every move. Abigail had once Again manipulated people to get her way and get her

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She was also an influence to the rest and when she gets caught she denies it. To keep her lies going she threatens one of the girls who knows the truth which occurs for Abigail to threaten her. “ You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife!” ( Betty pg. 1137) “ John- I am waiting for you every night.”

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To continue, Abigail is manipulative. When accused for being affiliated with witchcraft,

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The strained relationships in the play "The Crucible" during act 1 are shown to be rather intense, revealing the relationship between Elizabeth-John-Abigail to be one of the most intense. There is major evidence to suggest that Elizabeth is accusing Abigail of being something of a low life common whore. Such accusations of course drove Abigail to do the ritual to ask for Elizabeth to pass to the afterlife. Being that the town is a very religious, they can take something like this very seriously due to the stigma around it. Abigail tried to deny the fact that she placed a death curse onto Goody Proctor when Betty attempted to confront her of it after her attempt her jump out the window.

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The contention between the characters have intensified as the argument escalates, and Proctor's failure at pinning the blame on Abigail has frustrated him. When Abigail begins another self righteous fit of possession and calls upon Heaven, Proctor can no longer stand her hypocrisy. He cries out in a “roaring voice” “breathless and in agony: It is a whore!” (Miller 109, 110).

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They had nothing else to convict the witches which ended poorly for everyone. 20 men and women were executed during the Salem Witch Trials. When a convicted witch was in court, the girls would wait and see if their spirits called out to them or made them feel ill. "Why do you come, yellow bird?" (Miller 114) When Abigail is at court, she cries out that a bird

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Abigail's sudden switch of character demonstrates pure insanity. “I say shut it, Mary Warren!” (Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.) Abigail’s vicious approach almost failed but, pulled through as a twisted

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In the play “The Crucible” Abigail follows the majority and gets her self into trouble. Abigail is the biggest reason all the girls meet in the woods to dance naked. Once they got caught dancing in the woods by parris she starts act differently she starts to lie and lie about stuff because it will reveal that she had and affair with john proctor. Abigail also takes the focus of her charges of witchcraft off by accusing a bunch of other people of witchcraft.

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By spreading lies about Elizabeth Proctor and betraying other girls, Abigail is proven to be disloyal and has a tendency to betray

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(I.465-472). Seeing Abigail cry, it suggests that Abigail’s affair with John Proctor has influenced her behavior in jealousy and lust as she strives for nothing more than her love for John Proctor. By only being heartbroken, Abigail is not to be fully blamed for the hysteria within the town as her actions are only based on desperate attempts to win John Proctor over, and no intentional harm whatsoever. However, on the other hand, Abigail cannot be excused with outside forces making her the way she is due to the fact that she has clearly had a choice in most of her decisions and actions throughout the witchcraft crisis. When Mary Warren, another girl involved in the forest incident, enters the court, she explains to Danforth, the judge, that the girls are lying and are only pretending to see spirits.

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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, “...

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The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, conveys through Abigail and the judges how experiencing unlimited power will lead to abuse of power and deadly undeserved consequences. Many times throughout the play, Abby with her newly gained power irresponsibly uses it for her own benefit without thought about the consequences those actions might cause. The first example of this abuse of power is seen early on in the play in Act 1 through Abigail when she tells the other girls, "I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you." because all of the girls are scared of witchcraft and are about to admit to dancing and conjuring. She was scared that her reputation was going to be damaged by the girls admitting so she used her power of engaging fear in the

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Abigail is manipulating everyone by saying she sees a bird when she doesn't. She continues to lie so that she can protect herself like before with everyone else. Because of her actions, she killed many innocent people. “Ninety-one” people were executed because of her and the only reason they were executed was because they accused her of lying. So now that Mary Warren accused her of lying, Abigail is doing the same thing she did with the others.

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And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (317). Abigail is trying to convince herself that this is all she did with the girls even though, in reality, she knows they did much more. She does this in order to make herself feel less guilt towards the situation. She knows the trouble she will get into so she chooses to

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After continuous pressuring Mary Warren replies with ‘I cannot, they’ll turn on me— “showing us the mob has driven fear into people and how Marry is afraid to tell the truth in the case everyone will turn on her and blame her. Mary’s feeble attempt to recompense backfires, so when Abigail uses the poppet to blame it on Elizabeth, making Mary feel even worse thus she agrees to go with proctor to testify against Abigail in court. Later after agreeing to go to court to support Proctor Mary is asked who is at fault and in fear replies pointing to proctor “You’re the devil’s man!” (act three, page 119). This demonstrates how the fear of the mob and the overwhelming pressure from the Abigail makes her turn from the truth.

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  After this, Mary Warren, who is John Proctors maid, very breathlessly tells Abigail “Abby, we’ve got to tell.  Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two years ago!  We must tell the truth, Abby!  You’ll only be whipped for dancin’, and the other things!”

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