Giles Corey replies that since Hathorne isn't a Boston Judge yet, he has no right to ask him that question. Corey explains that he owns acres 2. Corey also states that the court is holding his wife Martha by mistake saying he had only said Martha was reading books, but he never accused her of witchcraft. Danforth soon thereafter takes utter control of the situation, and denies others in the court even a modicum of power.
John Proctor enters with Mary Warren, promising to clear up any doubts regarding the girls if his wife is freed from custody. Danforth orders the girls into the vestry. Reverend Parris is skeptical, pointing out that the girls fainted, screamed, and turned cold before the accused, which they see as proof of the spirits.
Mary tells them that she believed at first to have seen the spirits, however she knows now that there aren't any. In an attempt to discredit Mary, Abigail and the other girls begin to scream and cry out that they are freezing. When Abigail calls to God, Proctor accuses her of being a whore and tells the court of their affair.
Abigail denies it and the court has Elizabeth brought in to verify if Proctor is telling the truth. Not knowing that he had already confessed, Elizabeth lies and denies any knowledge of the affair. When Proctor continues to insist that the affair took place, the girls begin to pretend to see a yellow bird sent by Mary to attack them. To save herself from being accused of witchcraft, Mary tells the court that Proctor was in league with the devil and forced her to testify.
Proctor is arrested for witchcraft, and Reverend Hale storms out of the court, shouting "I denounce these proceedings! Proctor is chained to a jail wall, totally isolated from the outside. Reverend Parris begins to panic because John was liked by many in the village as were Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse, who are also to be hanged , and he explains his fears to Hathorne, Danforth and Cheever. He also reveals that Abigail and Mercy Lewis one of the "afflicted" girls stole 31 pounds about half his yearly salary and boarded a ship in the night.
Hale enters, now a broken man who spends all his time with the prisoners, praying with them and advising prisoners to confess to witchcraft so that they can live. The authorities send Elizabeth to John, telling her to try to convince Proctor to confess to being a witch. When Proctor and Elizabeth are alone, she forgives him and reaffirms their love. Elizabeth tells of Giles Corey being pressed to death.
John chooses to confess in exchange for his life and calls out to Hathorne, who is almost overjoyed to hear such news. Proctor signs the confession, then tears it up when realizing that Danforth is going to nail the signed confession to the church which Proctor fears will ruin his name and the names of other Salemites. Proctor, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey are led to the gallows to hang. Abigail's motivation to do what she did in the story was her jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor, a hunger for power, and a lust for John Proctor.
It's also speculated that she was acting out of a desire for attention and affection from others, which she'd get when she was hailed as a heroine for outing witches in Salem. She was also seeking amusement in how she could turn the entire town and it's a religious community on it's head due to her lies, giving her a greater sense of power and control than most girls of her time period could have.
It's also possible that she suffered from dementia or some sort of severe personality disorder, which explained why she put her own selfish wants in place of where her moral compass should have been. In many ways, Abigail ended up getting the last laugh. She was successful in achieving most of her desired outcomes and while she couldn't get John Proctor to love her in return, her actions ultimately led to his and Elizabeth's deaths in the witch trials.
Meanwhile, she got to leave Salem behind, completely unpunished for her evil deeds. However, there is a legend that suggests that Abigail became a lower-class prostitute in Boston and died a few years later, likely of a sexually transmitted disease. Abigail appears in the film adaption of The Crucible as John Proctor's maid before she betrays him and left him to die at the witch trials presided over by deputy governor Thomas Danforth.
She appears again in the remake of the same name as the movie's main antagonist. Here, she is sixteen, while in the actual events, she was 12 and therefore, obviously did not have a relationship with John Proctor. Nor was she a temptress. In this version she was portrayed by Academy Award-nominated actress Winona Ryder in her first and so far only villainous role. Villains Wiki. Villains Wiki Explore. Top Content. He also did not want the book to be just a history lesson on Salem witch hunts and more entertaining for the audience.
Changing the age from a kid to a teen probably makes it more believable for the readers. Abigail does seek revenge, but readers would never believe an 11 year old can do cruel things. Also with her being older, she is able to do many more things than she is as a kid, such as flirting with John Proctor. Also teen years is the age of being rebellious,crazy,horny and mistaking love for lust. By him changing her age he also changed the course of the story because now he added a love interest and so the whole story is different.
Authur Miller changed the age from 11 to 17 because he wanted to make the more interesting for people to read and for part of the affair between John Proctor and Abigail.
I think the athour miller change the age of abigail from 11 to 17 becuase he wants to make it more interesting and did not want to make it in to a history … also the affair that she had is not appropriate for her realy ag3.
So basically Miller balanced her age. I think he also changed it so that it can make her authority over the girls in the village greater because I doubt anyone would listen to a 11 year old.
It was a way to make it more mature and create more drama in the book. Abagail is still the real witch in the book. So therefore I say it was good that the author changed her age. I think that Arthur Miller changed Abigail age because like this it would make more sense. I believe he changed the age to make the story more interesting to the audience and it makes it more dramatic. I believe he has a vision in his mind that Abigail should be older. He might also done this in order to add more drama to the novel.
I think Authur Miller changed Abigails age because some parts of the book wouldnt make sense. I also think he had to because she knows to much to only be 11 years old. I dont believe an 11 year would do the acts that Abigail does throughout the book. The fact that she is 17 years old most likely gives her more control and power over the other girls in the book. If she was eleven Abby would have never been a maid for the proctor household and would not had an important role in the story.
As we read the book you can see that the language is different as well as the character names. John Proctor and Abby had sexual relations in the story. The average eleven year old does not look like she is 17 so maybe the age change was due to her maturity and looks.
The Rev. Parris called in Rev. John Hale of Beverley and Rev. Nicholas Noyes of Salem, and several neighbors, to observe the behavior of Abigail and the others, and to question Tituba , an enslaved household worker.
Abigail's and Betty's accusations, especially those on February 26 after the making of a witch's cake the day before, resulted in the arrest on February 29 of Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. Thomas Putnam, Ann Putnam Jr.
On March 19, with the Rev. Deodat Lawson visiting, Abigail accused the respected Rebecca Nurse of trying to force her to sign the devil's book. Lawson, claiming she saw Martha Corey's spirit separate from her body.
Martha Corey was arrested and examined the next day. A warrant for the arrest of Rebecca Nurse was issued March Abigail testified that she had seen some 40 witches outside the Parris house in a ritual of drinking blood. She named Elizabeth Proctor's specter as being present and named Sarah Good and Sarah Cloyce as being deacons at the ceremony. Of the legal complaints filed, Abigail Williams made 41 of them.
She testified in seven of the cases. Her last testimony was June 3, a week before the first execution. Joseph Hutchinson, in trying to discredit her testimony, testified that she had said to him that she could converse with the devil as easily as she could converse with him. After her last testimony in the court records on June 3, , the day that John Willard and Rebecca Nurse were indicted for witchcraft by a grand jury, Abigail Williams disappears from the historical record.
Speculation about Abigail Williams' motives in testifying usually suggest that she wanted some attention: that as a "poor relation" with no real prospects in marriage as she would have no dowry , she gained much more influence and power through her accusations of witchcraft that she would be able to do any other way. Linda R. Caporael suggested in that fungus-infected rye may have caused ergotism and hallucinations in Abigail Williams and the others.
In Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," Miller depicts Williams as a year-old servant in the Proctor house who tried to save John Proctor even while denouncing her mistress, Elizabeth.
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