John and Abgail

John and Abgail

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  • Date Submitted: 11/22/2010 5:03 PM
  • Category: English
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THE CRUCIBLE
John Proctor was a local farmer who lives just outside town. Elizabeth Proctor is his wife. A stern, harsh tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. Nevertheless, he has a hidden sin and that is his affair with Abigail Williams that proves his downfall. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name ruined.
Abigail Williams is Reverend Parris’s niece. Abigail was once the servant for the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after she discovered that Abigail was having an affair with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail is smart, wily, a good liar, and vindictive when crossed.
Abigail Williams was 17 years old she is an adopted child by her uncle Reverend Parris and because her mother and father was killed by Americans and as we all know she had an affair with John Proctor. She is also the leader of the gain of all the young girls so if she was to say something they would do it because they are scared of her. Abigail is in love with John because of the affair. And because of that it’s causing her to be in more and more in love with him but he, john does not see that. He sees it as being a one night and he has moved on with his life. But Abigail is no going down with that so she feels like the only thing to do is to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor.
She feels if she does that he will open his eyes to see how much he feel about Abigail. So Abigail had given Mary warren a poppet doll to give to Elizabeth. After Mary gave Elizabeth the poppet, one day while Abigail was eating at the table she act like Elizabeth sprit’s was stabling her so the rush to Elizabeth’s house to see if she has a poppet doll and they saw that she did so the arrested her and took her to court. So Abigail plan was working until the caught up with everything and then they had Abigail and john sitting at the stand and john confessed that they did have in affair so that they wouldn’t...

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