abigail

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Abigail's importance in the play is that without her the play would not exist. The play

starts with the girls of the village dancing naked in the woods with a fire burning.

Then the girls are caught and they all run away. Whilst at this meeting Abigail drinks

the blood of a chicken. Her reasons for doing this are as follows. Abigail worked in

the Proctor household and then she had an affair with John the master of the house

then Elizabeth threw Abigail out of the house because she knew about the affair with

Abigail and her husband. Abigail then drinks the chicken blood to send her spirit out

to kill Goody Proctor. After the events of the previous night the daughter of Reverend

Paris, Betty was taken ill and she was not able to wake. Later when she woke she said

Abigail says "What ails you Betty? your mama's dead and buried."

This is also telling us that the rumour of Abigail drinking blood has been backed up

not breathe properly. This was just a complete stunt by Abigail so that she could

she agrees, in a way with them. Then the a man who is very respected and is from

Abigail then says "I told him everything; he knows now, he knows everything we-"

Johns good books. The trials start to happen and Elizabeth is bought in front of the

play Proctor is like a raging animal. Abigail is also very important because her

Approximate Word count = 658
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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