Women's Rights In The Crucible

Elizabeth is known by her honesty. Later on, when Elizabeth was asked about the affair, she lied thinking it would salvage her husband. The tables turned, and she ended up saving Abigail instead of John. Elizabeth’s personal choice to lie, caused her husband’s

Abigail is a highly jealous character, concentrating her jealousy on Elizabeth Proctor. This jealousy is driven by lust and her desire for John Proctor. Abigail served as a servant in the Proctor household and after an affair with her husband John, Elizabeth fired her. She still resents Elizabeth for this as she is still in love with John. She clearly says to John, "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" Abigail is still in love with John and she assumes the converse. Her love for John only causes her resentment for Elizabeth to strengthen. She hates John Proctor's wife and in her conniving ways she attempts to inspire the same views of Elizabeth in John's mind. Saying things to him such as, "She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me, She is a cold, sniveling woman." Abigail fabricates stories in attempt to steel John from Elizabeth. She is a manipulative liar that does and says as she pleases in order to get what she wants.

The outlook on gender roles in today’s advanced society is in drastic contrast to the views portrayed in The Crucible, set in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, depicts women as weak creatures, who are expected to submit to men, and whose only access to power is through dishonest means.

Since Abigail is the Reverends niece and grew up with a pastor in the household it seems as if she should be very humble and a good person but her human nature took a toll making her greedy therefore making her dishonest and deceptive. She is afraid that people won’t agree with her, that motivates her to get people on her side. She then falsely accuses others of witchcraft and her being the victim. Witchcraft was taken very seriously back then and it ended up ripping apart the town and caused non stop fighting by almost everyone. Abigail’s main motive is John Proctor so she tries to lie to John about his wife to get him to fall for her “She is blackening my name in the village she is telling lies about me she’s a cold swiveling

Argumentatively, Abigail is an adulterer looking for retribution against her lover’s wife, but underneath that her actions are narcissistic. The abundant need for self-preservation becomes obvious when presented with evidence from the beginning of the play. Abigail depicts these characteristics when asked about Elizabeth Proctor’s departure from church services and Abigail’s own displacement from Elizabeth’s home, “She hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and I will not work for such a woman!” (Miller 12). She refuses to acknowledge that her own actions are wrongful and places blame on others, “My name is good in the

     Abigail William’s aggressive personality easily persuades the other girls to follow her footsteps, and back up anything and everything she says. This personality also frightens people in the courtroom to question her truthfulness, or her relation with John Proctor. Due to her forceful behavior, the girls support Abigail, and therefore become entangled in her web of lies, sins, and murders.

Some of the kindest hearts can live the worse lifestyles, and one of those beings is Elizabeth Proctor. Mrs. Proctor was a sweet soul who did not want to cause harm to any human or creature, but in the eyes of Abigail Williams she is “condemned of Witchcraft.”The conviction from Abigail to Elizabeth was strictly out of jealousy. Abigail was betrayed when John no longer lusted after Abigail that she decided to take

The roles of the women in the drama are significant because of the way they shape the story and help the reader understand the nature of one of the strangest events in human history. Throughout the novel, women are portrayed in many different ways. Some are shown as being good and moral people while others the complete opposite. Arthur Miller's treatment of women in this play show women as weak beings who give into their husbands. Each women in the drama plays a significant role in showing the different archetypes there were among women especially Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. In addition, Kohlberg’s Moral Stages are six developmental stages of human moral reasoning which can tie into the view in which we have of the women in the play.

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller shows both kinds of women through Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail and Elizabeth are seen as complete opposites through characterization, but they are strongly motivated by the same man, and in the end they both contribute to his death. Arthur Miller describes Abigail Williams and Elizabeth

Society mistreated most women in Salem 1692. Being a female means she is automatically open to abuse by men and even other women who saw themselves as being above you.

The story “The Crucible”, Explains some excellent similarities with the current role of women back from the 1840’s. Women were really referenced as small, Vulnerable, Sexually desired, dependent, And useless Human beings, As shown during the 1840’s. The women were viewed as Second-class Citizens. However, they did not own land, nor pursue a professional career in their lifetime. As they always were used as sexual appeal, reproduction, and Slaves. And they also couldn’t vote because of their limited rights given to them.

In “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller uses the characters Abigail and the three girls as feminists to gain power. “American laws wanted to move women closer to equality through an Equal Rights Amendment that would ban governments discrimination based on sexes”. “Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of equality of the sexes.” He portrayed this by women having the power in a positive and negative way. In the town of Salem, women were given less amount of power, with their ability to have judgments upon other women and men as being witches and wizards. There was no need of evidence to prove if a person was a witch or not. This power was given to Abigail and the girls implying larger comments on the negative effect of women holding power. Although there were good things and bad things about women having power, Elizabeth Proctor lost power over her husband because John Proctor is the head of the house, but “she is submissive to him.” Elizabeth is not secured within her relationship with John Proctor because he had an affair with Abigail Williams. Elizabeth is upset and deeply hurt, and constantly reminding John Proctor that she is still hurt because he cheated on her. Society’s view a husband having more power than the woman. Elizabeth began to have the position of a stereotypical wife. She doesn’t lose power, but suppresses her power and holds her power privately. Society view women to be weak, not intelligent, so they deserve to have less power, and

The shot heard around the world came from the smoking gun of every individual who has challenged the authority in place in their environment. Claudette Colvin sent off her shot when she decided to sit down on a bus in Alabama during the civil rights movement, and Alice Paul pulled the trigger when she continued to protest for suffrage with no regard for the widely held negative opinion of the suffrage movement at the time. Protagonists in texts take on their own form of rebellion that authors want to be heard, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne with his novel, The Scarlet Letter, which challenges strict theocracies and Arthur Miller with his play, The Crucible, which disputes the communist hysteria of the 1950’s and 1960’s. However, all these crusaders

The role of women have transformed over the past century. Up until recently, women had no power or say in anything they did. Women have been held to different standards up until recent times. The role of women in the past was to stay at home and take care of her children and to cook for her family. Arthur Miller examines the role of women throughout the play The Crucible. In the beginning of the play the women begin with no power because it’s in the period of time where women aren’t as important as men. Women were generalized as keepers of the home who did not possess any power. They were not in charge of anything important because women have been sexualized to not be able to do the same tasks as men. Arthur miller showed us that women who start with no power and then gain a large amount in a short span of time, can end up abusing it.

    The first reason Abigail can be characterized as despicable is because she lets her jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor cloud her judgement which eventually leads to the imprisonment of Elizabeth. Abigail is jealous of Elizabeth because she is married to John Proctor and during the time that Abigail was working for the Proctor’s, John and Abigail had an affair. Elizabeth sensed the feelings between the two and she understandably dismissed Abigail. Abigail tried to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft to take her out of the picture so she could marry John and have him to herself because she believes that John is in love with her and mistakes his blushes in church for affection for her rather than shame for his sins of lechery. Abigail gets upset with John when he tells Abigail that he loves his wife and will not let her be hanged even if it means outing Abigail for lying and himself for lechery. Abigail also claimed that Elizabeth wanted to