LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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she wants her to burn
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she wants John to herself
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she didn’t-Ruth did
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Elizabeth was never accused
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Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams because Abigail wants to marry Elizabeth’s husband, John, with whom she had an affair while serving in the Proctor household. “She wants me dead, ” says Elizabeth of Abigail, and indeed, Abigail does intend for Elizabeth to die.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth believes that Abigail accused her of witchcraft to get revenge for being dismissed from her housekeeping position at the Proctors’ and to reignite the affair she had with John Proctor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cheever says that Abigail was stabbed with a needle while eating at Parris’ house, and Abigail accused Elizabeth’s spirit of stabbing her. Mary Warren tells Hale that she made the doll in court that day and stored the needle inside the doll.
Detailed explanation-4: -She calls Elizabeth a “lying, cold, sniveling woman.” Most of Abigail’s hateful feelings come from being fired by Elizabeth and for the fact that she is married to John Proctor, the man Abigail claims to love.