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Scapegoats and vengeance in The Crucible
Title: Scapegoats and vengeance in The Crucible
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 378 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scapegoats and vengeance in The Crucible
In the play, The Crucible, both scapegoats and vengeance play prominent roles.
Abigail Williams exhibits both these characteristics. She committed the greatest of crimes.
She destroyed the reputations of many and killed much of her surrounding society. Her
power lied in the fact that judges believed her, making all those women who fell victim to
her scapegoats. She is the one who triggers off a sense of hate in the play. She tempts
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…showed last 75 words of 378 total…that it was the only thing that stood in her
way. She was not going to stop until her death had been accomplished. Also in the play,
many other names of towns-women were called out, accusing them of being witches, only
for the fact that someone wanted to get revenge on them.
For the reasons I have described, the characters in The Crucible make and are
made scapegoats, out of vengeance and hatred for them
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