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    to “keep the community together‚ and to prevent any kind of disunity” (7) from occurring‚ highlights Salem and its priority placed on conformity. Therefore‚ Elizabeth Proctor and her internal conflict regarding morality contrasts starkly with the unquestioning society around her. In Miller’s play The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller utilizes Elizabeth Proctor’s evolving sense of justice and integrity to delineate that in a given world that values the dogmatic adherence to ideas or customs‚ a person who rejects

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    John Proctor is a tormented person. He trusts his issue with Abigail unsalvageably harmed him according to God‚ his wife Elizabeth‚ and himself. Genuine‚ Proctor did succumb to sin and confer infidelity; in any case‚ he does not have the ability to excuse himself. Obviously‚ his association with Elizabeth stays strained all through most of the play. He despises Elizabeth in light of the fact that she can’t excuse him and trust him once more‚ yet he is liable of the same thing. Truth be told‚ his

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    Elizabeth Proctor I would be more than willing to help Elizabeth Proctor. She easily gains sympathy from people because she is a mother and wife. Elizabeth has to sacrifice a lot for her family to keep them safe‚ healthy and happy. When she fires Abigail she is sacrificing her marriage because of the fact John could hate her for it. She is also sacrificing her happiness by staying with John after his affair with Abigail‚ but she does it to keep everyone happy. I also find it easier to want

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    Elizabeth Proctor was probably one of the characters faced with the most stress and problem throughout the duration of "The Crucible" After a long period of illness‚ she try to live life as normal‚ despite having found out her husband committed adultery and‚ later‚ that she has been accused of witchcraft. Although she proves brave and strong and endures the experience‚ when the most important decision in the fiasco comes‚ she makes a controversial choice. Before the play takes place‚ Abigail Williams

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    and its people. Specifically‚ Proctor describes how he confronted Elizabeth towards her beliefs about him and Abigail " I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail‚ and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more "(p.50).

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    witchcraft. Attempting to show that Elizabeth Proctor is guilty of witchcraft‚ Mr. Cheever explains that the poppet he found could be evidence that Elizabeth stabbed Abigail Williams. He says of Reverend Parris‚ “Stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly‚ he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed‚ she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in‚”(71) after he draws a needle out of the poppet’s stomach. Elizabeth and John explain that Mary Warren made

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    Script (Draft) He doesn’t love Elizabeth! He loves me. How can he love a woman who is blacking my name in the village! She is telling lies about me‚ she is a cold‚ snivelling woman‚ and he bends to her. I know John Proctor better than anyone is this town‚ better than Elizabeth’s every will. I am filled with Angry‚ sorrow and frustration. This is all Parris faults if he hadn’t discovered us in the woods I would be able to dispose of Elizabeth for good‚ John could have been mine. I put myself at

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    As seen in Act II of The Crucible‚ the Proctor family was in a crisis with John and Elizabeth in constant tension after John had an affair with Abigail Williams. The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ is a play about the events of the Salem Witch Trials. In the play‚ many characters make accusations that several people were with the Devil. This conflict has many similarities to McCarthyism‚ a practice popular in the 1950’s‚ in which someone accuses another person of something without any proper evidence

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    towards her including the attention of John Proctor. In the play‚ Proctor has an affair with young Abigail while his wife goes through postpartum depression causing Abigail to fall in love with him but John returns to his wife Elizabeth. While Elizabeth Proctor barely forgives him‚ John does all he can to make it up to her. Unfortunately‚ the biggest consequence of the affair is not the loss of security‚ but when Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. Elizabeth and Abigail have very conflicting characters

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    Arthur Miller. When Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft by Abigail‚ and the men came to take her away to prison‚ she showed courage and integrity by going with them without a struggle. In Act II Elizabeth says to John‚ “I think I must go with them.”(1077). Her composed demeanor in this difficult situation shows her courage because she could have easily fought against them‚ but she chooses to be quiet and do as they said because she has to be strong for her children. Elizabeth

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