Abigail actually admits to doing witch like actions, "Uncle , we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it"(1039), in the forest. ... "I have a sense of for heat, John, and yours has drawn me to my window, and I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness. Do you tell me you?... So she blamed a black slave who's word would obviously be over looked compared to a white girl. Abigail knew that her word was stronger than a Barbados speaking black slave, and that's why she had to say that she was from Barbados to discredit her even more. ...

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The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. ... Miller revealed to us that Proctor had confessed "God help me I lusted," unbeknownst to Elizabeth and she mistakenly covered up the affair that contributed to Proctors arrest. ... Like Elizabeth, the reader wrestles with the conflict of whether she will confess or not, intensified when she makes the seemingly terrible decision to "protect" him. ... In Act two, Elizabeth talking about Abigail states "and I thought she were a saint, to hear her and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Isr...

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To me, it's the mood that is portrayed throughout the whole story. ... The people that stick out to me and that I have painted upon the canvas are of Judge Danforth, Abigail, Tituba, Reverend Hale, John Proctor, and Betty Parris. ... She is shown as mischievous Tituba is a black slave. ... He seems to be the most liked in town. ...

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Also, Abigail lied to get some backing on her accusations by accusing two of the worst ladies in town of witches, as well as a black slave from Barbados. ... "I know how you clutched my back behind your house and seated like a stallion whenever I come near! ... It's she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now." ... Grand theft and perjury are one thing, but playing with emotions, like Abigail did was obviously a great crime. ...

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In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... Black listing, which was a list that had prevented the people on it to acquire jobs because of the potential communist threat, made many artists whom lost their jobs were unable to acquire any more work; lives were ruined. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and te...

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Adults would try to make teenagers do chores by any means of black-male to any means of brute force. ... In the beginning of the play, Abigail stated, " I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you- (Miller, 72). ... Mary said in court, "He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign- (Miller, 120). ...

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When the play opens a group of girls are dancing in the forest with a black slave whose name is Tituba. ... When startled by her father she went into a coma-like state. ... I bed you, sir, I bed you-see her what she is She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! ... God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise such sweat. ... I have given you my soul; leave me my name!...

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Soon the girls began exhibiting strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance like states and acting as if to cast mysterious spells. ... Although Good and Osborne sustained guiltlessness, Tituba confessed to seeing Lucifer, who appeared to her "sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog." ... Tituba confessed to pursuing black magic. ... On April 22, Nehemiah Abbot, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English were examined before Hathorne and Corwin. ... Margaret would comment later,...

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As Young Goodman Brown says on page 81 paragraph five, "Faith kept me back awhile." representing that his faith in God may have kept him from a conversation with the devil. ... The devil offers Brown his walking staff that is described as having "the likeness of a great black snake" (p. 81). The snake "might also be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a live serpent" (p. 81). The snake-like appearance of the staff symbolizes the sly and treacherousness of the devil. ...

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It simply human nature Early on in the play the Salem girls gather in the forbidden woods, with housemaid Tituba, a black woman from the Bahamas. ... In this time a meeting like this was especially prohibited, as they were supposedly pondering spirits, and is classed as an act of witchcraft. ... "But if you trafficked with spirits In the forest I must know it now, For surely my enemies will, and They will rain me with it". ...

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I have given you my soul; leave me my name!... With the pressure from Danforth to convince Proctor to say that he sees Rebecca Nurse with the Devil, Proctor says that "I have three children-how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?... Proctor would like to teach his children how to become the men. ... God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! ... His words are like the nails what are driven definitively into the wall. ...

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Procter declares, "I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"... He states, "God knows how black my sins are! ... In "Death of a Salesman," Biff attempts to make Willy realize that the ideals he set for himself are false and that he is ordinary like the rest of the world. ... In "Death of a Salesman," Willy's decision to commit suicide reinforces his determination to be well liked and his determination to prove himself to Biff. ... If she would have told the truth of her husbands adultery, like John Proctor said she would, it is probable that Proctor would have been acquitted ...

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