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Post by stephaniemi116 on Oct 27, 2012 19:13:22 GMT -5
What would you say is the name of the crime that Proctor commits that landed him in jail?
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Post by gabbybl112 on Oct 28, 2012 10:51:18 GMT -5
Proctor gets put in jail because he was accused of witchcraft by Abigail and the girls and doesn't confess to it, but I don't know if that has a specific name.
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Post by maryri116 on Nov 12, 2012 18:46:10 GMT -5
Realizing that Mary Warren's testimony was not going to persuade Danforth into believing Abigail to be a liar, Proctor confesses to having an affair with Abigail. However, Danforth needs prove (which is completely ironic judging that he condemns people for witchcraft despite his lack of evidence), so he calls in Elizabeth Proctor to testify that her husband is a lecher. Obviously Elizabeth isn't going to ruin her husbands life and possibly send him to jail, so, naturally, she lies. Because she says that Proctor is not an adulterer, Proctor is now in a tad bit of trouble for apparently lying to the court. And if he weren't in enough trouble, he goes on to yell, "God is dead!" Not a good move: now he's seen as a liar and a hater of god, thus making him a witch. So technically he was jailed for witchcraft, a crime in which he did not commit, when, if anything, he should be jailed for adultery.
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